In this 1-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to - use Typeform - create survey forms using Typeform - publish and share your survey forms 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 the third course, you will learn how to use information from cost accounting to improve managerial decision-making. We discuss business decisions and suggest how cost information can support them best. For example, how will costs change if managers adjust cost drivers? How many units do companies need to sell in order to avoid losses or to achieve a targeted profit? How can managers improve pricing or product programs with information from cost accounting?

By the end of this project, you will learn how to create a mortgage payment calculator in an Excel Spreadsheet by using a free version of Microsoft Office Excel. Excel is a spreadsheet that is similar in layout as accounting spreadsheets. It consists of individual cells that can be used to build functions, formulas, tables, and graphs that easily organize and analyze large amounts of information and data. While a mortgage calculator helps you to see how extra payments effect your principal amount. We will learn to create a budget both automatically and manually, step by step. By utilizing Microsoft Excel, you will reduce the burden of working with your lender to create an early payoff plan. It will allow you to create your own payment plan for your timeline.

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.

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.

In "Engaging in Persuasive and Credible Communication", you will learn the key skill of persuasion, in the context of professional communication in a globalised world. Persuasive communication is essential to any professional workplace. From a simple email request for your colleague to help you, to developing a presentation for the board of directors, these are acts of communication that require a good degree of persuasion. Even the process of entering the workforce requires effective persuasive communication, for in the act of writing your resume, cover-letter, or in the interview process, you are essentially persuading the potential employer to hire you. By the end of this course, you will be able to structure and express your ideas in a convincing and persuasive manner in writing, apply basic principles of persuasive writing to convince different sets of audiences at the globalised workplace, and learn to engage in persuasive and credible communication across different cultures in a complex globalised environment.

This 2-hour long project-based course is an introduction on how to create and design a landing page using MailChimp. Collecting the details of marketing prospects for marketing purposes online starts with a well designed landing page. This course will take you through creating one on MailChimp. MailChimp is an email service platform and autoresponder for email marketing. By the end of this project, you will create and launch a live-on-the-web page people can sign up on. When you are done with this, there is a Capstone task you can take to ensure you picked up all the lessons from this course. Note: If you don't have a MailChimp account, you will need to create one to be able to complete the content.

هذه هي الدورة التدريبية الخامسة في برنامج شهادة إدارة المشروعات من Google. سوف تستكشف هذه الدورة تاريخ ونهج وفلسفة إدارة المشروعات في أجايل، بما في ذلك إطار عمل سْكرَم. سوف تتعلم كيفية التفريق والمزج بين أجايل والنهج الأخرى لإدارة المشروعات. أثناء تقدمك خلال الدورة التدريبية، ستتعرف على المزيد عن سْكرَم، من خلال استكشاف ركائزها وقيمها ومقارنة أدوار فريق سْكرَم الأساسية. سوف تكتشف كيفية إنشاء قائمة مهام المنتج وإدارتها وتنقيحها، وتنفيذ استراتيجيات التسليم القائمة على القيمة من أجايل، وتحديد خارطة طريق القيمة. سوف تتعلم أيضًا استراتيجيات لتنظيم أحداث سْكرَم الخمسة المهمة لفريق سْكرَم بشكل فعال، وتقديم نهج أجايل أو سْكرَم لمؤسسة ما، وتدريب فريق أجايل. وأخيرا، سوف تتعلم كيفية البحث عن الفرص وإيجادها في أدوار أجايل. سيستمر مديرو مشروعات Google الحاليون في إرشادك وتزويدك بالنُهُج والأدوات والموارد العملية لتحقيق أهدافك. يجب أن يكون المتعلمون الذين يكملون هذا البرنامج مجهزين للتقدم لوظائف المستوى التمهيدي كمديري المشروعات. لا تلزم خبرة سابقة. بنهاية هذه الدورة، ستكون قادرًا على: شرح نهج وفلسفة إدارة المشروعات في أجايل، بما في ذلك القيم والمبادئ. - شرح ركائز سْكرَم وكيفية دعمها لقيم سْكرَم. - تحديد ومقارنة الأدوار الأساسية في فريق سْكرَم وما الذي يجعلها فعالة. - إنشاء وإدارة قائمة مهام المنتج وتنقيح قائمة المهام. - وصف الفعاليات الخمسة الهامة في سْكرَم وكيفية إعداد كل فعالية لفريق سْكرَم. - تنفيذ استراتيجيات التسليم المبنية على القيمة لأجايل وتحديد خارطة طريق القيمة. - شرح كيفية تدريب فريق أجايل ومساعدته في التغلب على التحديات. - إجراء بحث عن وظيفة للحصول على دور أجايل وتعلم كيفية النجاح في مقابلتك.

In this fixed income course, you will learn to distinguish between different types of U.S. dollar-denominated corporate and municipal debt issuance, identify corporate and municipal bonds available to purchase and sell on an online trading platform, grasp the market mechanics underlying each type of fixed income instrument, as well as conduct basic analyses, and flag critical investment risks. At the end of the course, you should be able to describe different types of corporate and municipal bond products available to buy and sell, some of the related risks you, as an investor, are likely to face, certain ways of mitigating them, as well as how to use an online trading platform to identify available securities to invest in, conduct due diligence, and much more

Globalization has brought dramatic changes to the marketplace. A proliferation of global brands brings diverse cultures to a consumer population that is also culturally diverse. This course enables students to understand how globalization changes consumers at a psychological level and provides tools for infusing brands with cultural meaning that can resonate with global consumers. The focus is on understanding that culture exists in the mind as well as in the environment, and that globalization creates multi-cultural spaces in contemporary societies. Consumers can use the cultural meaning of a brand to build their identities or reject the brand’s cultural meaning. The course will help students identify when assimilation vs. exclusionary reactions are more likely to occur and to devise strategies for imbuing brands with cultural meanings that can elevate them to the status of cultural icons. You will be able to: • Understand how globalization impacts the psychological responses of consumers in global markets • Explain what culture is and how it manifests itself in business environments • Understand how brands acquire cultural meanings and predict consumers’ responses to the cultural meanings in brands • Identify strategies to win-over multi-cultural consumers in globalized markets • Practice the fundamentals of how to build an iconic brand This course is part of Gies College of Business’ suite of online programs, including the iMBA and iMSM. Learn more about admission into these programs and explore how your Coursera work can be leveraged if accepted into a degree program at https://degrees.giesbusiness.illinois.edu/idegrees/.