This course is designed for professionals interested in learning the principles of Lean Sigma, the DMAIC process and DFSS. This course is number 8 of 8 in this specialization dealing with topics in Design for Six Sigma Professionals with some completed coursework in statistics and a desire to drive continuous improvement within their organizations would find this course and the others in this specialization appealing. Method of assessment consists of several formative and summative quizzes and a multi-part peer reviewed project completion regiment.

This course provides an introduction to International Organizations and the United Nations, and explores how business and management tools can be applied in these settings to achieve better, more effective results. With a focus on cross-sector partnerships in a changing world, the course offers you insights into the inner workings of international organizations and the challenges they face today. It will introduce you to effective, state-of-the art management tools and principles to help you lead change in this world – taught by senior staff of international organizations themselves. This is an introductory course offered by the International Organizations MBA (IO-MBA) of the University of Geneva, an executive program for change-makers in international organizations, NGOs and social ventures.

By the end of this project, you will be able to develop strong teams by illustrating and improving self-awareness and growing understanding between team members. To do this, you will gain hands-on experience leveraging the Johari Window model in the Miro online visual collaboration platform for teamwork. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.

In this project, learners will know how to find a job and submit a proposal in Upwork as a freelancer. Upwork is a platform for freelancers to find and communicate with clients for different projects. Learning how to find a job and submit a proposal in Upwork is beneficial for freelancers to find new clients and have a consistent workflow. We will find a job in Upwork from a client looking for a freelancer to complete a project. We will then fill out the terms section on the proposal. The terms section is the pay we will be requesting from the client. After that, we will write a cover letter for the proposal for the job. Then we will use the boost feature in Upwork to finish and submit the proposal. Finally, we will see how we find our submitted proposal and how we would communicate with the client.

By the end of this project, you will be able run effective icebreaker sessions to get to know new team members, break down barriers, warm up conversations to build the foundation for a cohesive development team. To do this, you will gain hands-on experience leveraging icebreaker tools in the Miro online visual collaboration platform for teamwork. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.

Once you have a prototype and a clearer vision of the opportunity, you’ll need to create a small organization to discover how to create a repeatable and scalable business model. Designed to provide you with a comprehensive overview of the critical components of creating a start-up, Entrepreneurship 2: Launching the Start-up, provides practical, real-world knowledge about the lean approach, the minimum viable product, when to pivot, when to quit your day job, the art of the pitch, building and managing a team, allocating equity, and building your external team, advisory board members, professional services, and entrepreneurial strategy. At the end of this course, you’ll be able to create a strategy for launch, including knowing who you need to hire, how to manage them to provide the greatest value, and what legal aspects are involved. You’ll also be prepared for Entrepreneurship 3: Growth Strategies.

The process that marketing and communications teams undertake to post on social media is a common tripping point for many companies. Most companies want to include creatives and managers in the process to ensure the best possible outcome. Staying aware of what is done and not done, what is ready for review and or posting, when and if revisions are requested and other steps are important to ensure timely, accurate, and impactful posts. Getting there is the tricky part. In this project, the learner will learn how to create an approval process that not only informs the stakeholders of project progress but also sends reminders and updates when deadlines are missed. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North American region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.

In this 1-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to set up Google Analytics for web sites and particularly for single-page web applications/websites. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.

In this 2 hours project you will learn how to build custom regional reports with Google Analytics. You will familiarize with Google Analytics and its usage, create a marketing custom regional dashboard with table and graph widgets, customize a standard geo report and scheduled the report you have designed to be sent monthly via email to a distributed regional marketing team.

This course introduces several tools for processing business data to obtain actionable insight. The most important tool is the mind of the data analyst. Accordingly, in this course, you will explore what it means to have an analytic mindset. You will also practice identifying business problems that can be answered using data analytics. You will then be introduced to various software platforms to extract, transform, and load (ETL) data into tools for conducting exploratory data analytics (EDA). Specifically, you will practice using PowerBI, Alteryx, and RStudio to conduct the ETL and EDA processes. The learning outcomes for this course include: 1. Development of an analytic mindset for approaching business problems. 2. The ability to appraise the value of datasets for addressing business problems using summary statistics and data visualizations. 3. The ability to competently operate business analytic software applications for exploratory data analysis.