Analytical Skills 
Improve business decisions by learning how to gather, interpret and present data.

Develop specialized skills and strategies to help you assess patterns, identify relevant questions, gain data-driven insights and effectively share analytical information with others.

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Sustainability 101: How Taking a Short View Can Leave You Short-changed

In today’s fast-moving world, investors, directors, and shareholders often expect significant results practically overnight. Sander Flaum explores the benefits of a longer-term perspective, where doing the right thing will lead to a positive return—eventually.

Tactics for Doing Business at the Speed of Now

In this new world, three game-changing drivers make it possible for any organization to grow prosperously: social media, cloud computing, and the “millennial mind-set.” Social media quickly creates vast powerful communities by connecting people inside and outside an organization; cloud computing pro

Ten Things You Don't Know About Managing Your Business Operations Risks

Think your business is prepared to continue operations in the face of crisis? Think again. Here, from a risk management expert, are 10 things management may have overlooked. For starters, don't assume that your IT department has the situation under...

The “Grow or Die” Lie

Learn these six truths about corporate growth.

The Blofeld School of Management

Learn about predictive scenarios

The Companies You Keep: How to Make Your Strategic Partnerships Work

Collaboration can provide amazing results for your business. New strategic business partners bring expertise that you do not possess and open you up to new markets and audiences. But integrating with a partner also raises difficult questions: Do you possess the same values?

The Five Domains of High Performance

Research by the Institute of Corporate Productivity has identified five basic ingredients of high performing organizations.

The Four Gs of Smartly Growing Yur Business in Good Times and Bad

All executives want to grow their businesses. Dr. Edward Hess of Darden Grduate School of Business calls his model of business growth and his book about it as Smart Growth. Hess counsels corporate executives and small business owners to pursue growth strategies based on what he calls the 4Gs: (1) gr

The Four Ps of Strategy Creation

Perceptions, performance, purpose, and process--these four Ps encourage critical thinking, increased creativity, and increase opportunities and avoid threats.