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Laura Paton
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Learn to build a successful business analysis career in three phases: strategize, plan, and take action.
Are you interested in becoming a business analyst? Or are you currently working as a business analyst but feel stuck and uncertain about where your current job might take you? A career doesn't just organically happen. You need to strategically plan, take proactive steps, and keep a laser-sharp focus on goals. In this course, instructor Laura Paton...
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Build your foundational knowledge of business data analytics, including core concepts, processes, and best practices, to effectively drive data-informed decision-making.
In this course, business analysis thought leader Laura Paton provides an essential introduction to business data analytics for business analysis professionals, exploring the relationship of data analytics to related disciplines such as business analysis and data science. Explore...
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Learn the most critical requirements-related activities all projects need to cover and gain the knowledge required to successfully plan for and manage this work.
Imagine you’re assigned project management responsibilities for a multi-million-dollar project, but discover there are no business analyst resources being funded, leaving the requirements-related work your responsibility. Or perhaps, you have business analysts on your project, but your...
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Business analysis is often used to refer to a profession, a competency, and the discipline of performing business research. This course gives an overview of all three areas.
Is business analysis a profession, a competency, or a research discipline? Would it confuse you if the answer to this question was all three? In this course, Laura Paton provides needed clarity by exploring the components of the profession and the necessary competencies to fulfill...
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Get introduced to business benefits realization, a practical way to ensure high-valued projects and programs are selected and their benefits are achieved and sustained long-term.
Increased competition, globalization, and shifting technologies are just some of the contributing factors that require today's organizations to up their game to ensure the money they invest in product development is spent on the highest-valued efforts. Without a clear approach...
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Learn key communication skills that will directly improve business analysis deliverables and performance.
Business analysts are the link between stakeholders and IT, but the secret to success always starts with communication. In this course, instructor Laura Paton provides a clear explanation of business analysis communication and introduces you to the most important communication skills required to become a successful business analysis professional....
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Synthesize the set of steps and techniques for performing strategy analysis in your work environment.
Strategy analysis is one of the six major knowledge areas of business analysis, and practitioners must be able to incorporate strategy analysis practices into their work activities. In this course, instructor Laura Paton begins with the basics of strategy analysis, including the value and concepts. Next, Laura shows you how to start performing Strategy...
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Virginia Woolf's "Orlando" is an enchanting and thought-provoking tale that transcends time and gender, offering a profound exploration of identity, self-discovery, and the limits of societal roles. The novel tells the story of Orlando, a young nobleman in the Elizabethan era who miraculously transforms into a woman and embarks on a centuries-long journey through history. Through Orlando's extraordinary adventures-from Shakespeare's court to modern-day...
9) Disclaimer
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Finding a mysterious novel at her bedside plunges documentary filmmaker Catherine Ravenscroft into a living nightmare. Though ostensibly fiction, The Perfect Stranger recreates in vivid, unmistakable detail the terrible day she became hostage to a dark secret, a secret that only one other person knew, and that person is dead. Now that the past is catching up with her, Catherine's world is falling apart. Her only hope is to confront what really happened...
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Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie Tulliver worships her brother Tom and is desperate to win the approval of her parents, but her passionate, wayward nature and her fierce intelligence bring her into constant conflict with her family. As she reaches adulthood, the clash between their expectations and her desires is painfully played out as she finds herself torn between her relationships with three very different men: her proud and stubborn brother,...
11) The tempest
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Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.
12) Anna Karenina
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"Tolstoy produced many drafts of Anna Karenina. Crafting and recrafting each sentence with careful intent, he was anything but casual in his use of language. His project, translator Marian Schwartz observes, "was to bend language to his will, as an instrument of his aesthetic and moral convictions." In her magnificent new translation, Schwartz embraces Tolstoy's unusual style - she is the first English language translator ever to do so. Previous translations...
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Classic Poems for Girls is a collection of over 25 funny, whimsical and moving poems for 5–10-year olds, designed to fuel the imagination. From the adventures of the Jumblies, who sail away in a sieve, to the sticky end of a girl named Matilda, to the courtship of a maiden who lived long ago in a kingdom by the sea, there's a poem to suit any feeling or mood. Seasoned Naxos AudioBooks readers Roy McMillan, Laura Paton, Anne-Marie Piazza,
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