Business track
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Business roadmap
The business skills every modern professional needs, step by step.
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How businesses work
How companies create value and compete.
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Analysis and Excel modelling
Structure problems and back decisions with numbers.
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Finance fundamentals
Read the numbers that run a business.
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Projects and operations
Plan work and deliver it on time.
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Communication, leadership and capstone
Persuade people and lead teams.
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Step 1: How businesses work
- How a company makes money: who pays, for what, and why.
- Choosing where to compete and how to win.
- Sizing a market and understanding rivals, with tools such as SWOT.
Step 2: Analysis and Excel modelling
- Breaking a problem into parts and testing each idea with evidence.
- Formulas, lookups, pivot tables and charts.Excel help and learning (Microsoft)
- Simple models with clear assumptions and "what if" scenarios.
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- Asking the right question of the data, and knowing its limits.
Step 3: Finance fundamentals
- The income statement, balance sheet and cash flow, and what each tells you.Accounting and financial statements (Khan Academy)
- Planning spending and predicting results, then tracking against the plan.
- Profit per customer or product: margins, customer acquisition cost and lifetime value.
Step 4: Projects and operations
- Scope, milestones, timelines and risks.Project management guide (Atlassian)
- Delivering in short cycles and adapting as you learn.The Scrum Guide
- Mapping a process and removing waste, with ideas from Lean.
Step 5: Communication, leadership and capstone
- Leading with the answer, then the evidence, in slides people remember.
- Clear, short emails and reports that get read and acted on.
- Setting direction, giving feedback and running good meetings.
- Analyse a real business problem and present your recommendation.