10 Business Analysis Training Courses

1. Competitive Landscapes

SC Training (formerly EdApp)’s Competitive Landscapes course lays out the benefits of conducting a competitive landscape analysis to stay current with your industry. It discusses the key areas to analyze and the different competitive analysis frameworks that you can use when conducting a competitive landscape analysis. 

To be able to respond to any threats or effects brought about by competitors, there’s a lesson on the different counter strategies you can use. The last lesson talks about competitive intelligence and how to keep tabs on your competitors to get valuable information to use to your advantage.

This free editable course has three short lessons, making it simple to understand and complete for your team. Following the principles of microlearning, information is delivered in a concise, targeted approach, which increases the likelihood of retention.

If you need to add info specific to your organization, just use SC Training (formerly EdApp)’s intuitive drag-and-drop course creator tool to edit the course along with its ready-made templates. It promises ease of use, regardless of whether you have any instructional design background or none at all. You can also customize this course by changing the font, theme, and background or get more creative by using the Canva integration.

• Cost: Free
• Scope: Benefits of a competitive landscape analysis, developing a counter strategy, competitive intelligence

Created by SC Training (formerly EdApp)

3. Business Analysis Basics

Simplilearn’s Business Analysis Basics introduces the concepts, knowledge, and skills needed to become a business analyst. It starts with an introduction to business analysis and educates learners on why there’s a need for a business analyst in an organization. To better understand what being a business analyst is, the roles, responsibilities, and skills needed to be successful will be tackled. For those who want to see business analysis in action, there’s also a short demo using Excel.

This self-paced course consists of videos that can be completed in just two hours. A business analysis certificate will also be given after. While this course is free, take note that your learners will only have 90 days to access it.

• Cost: Free
• Scope: Introduction to business analysis, roles and responsibilities, business analysis demo

Created by Simplilearn

5. Preparing the Data

Data preparation is the initial stage in data analysis that’s why it’s crucial to know how to perform it effectively and efficiently before conducting a business analysis. SC Training (formerly EdApp)’s Preparing the Data is a business data analyst training course that aims to teach learners the important concepts and skills needed for data preparation. 

In just three microlessons, learners will know all about the meaning of data vs. information, the various types of data and their applications, and how to create an effective data list using different rule sets.

Need a head start on creating your own business analysis course? Preparing the Data is just one out of the hundreds of pre-built courses in SC Training (formerly EdApp)’s free course library that you can use for your corporate training. It can be easily edited and rebranded to fit your company's specific standards and expertise without starting from scratch.

• Cost: Free
• Scope: What is data, types of data, data listing

Created by SC Training (formerly EdApp)

6. Business Analytics

In this Business Analytics course from Harvard, your team will develop a data mentality and the analytical abilities to understand and present data. They’ll then learn to apply concepts to actual business challenges. To kick off this course, learners will be familiarized with basic descriptive statistics and learn regression analysis. Performing various analytical techniques in Excel will also be tackled. To make informed business decisions, there’s a lesson on how to interpret data by identifying trends, recognizing outliers, and summarizing data sets.

This self-paced course consists of five modules that can be completed in eight weeks. A certificate of completion is awarded to those who successfully complete the course.

• Cost: 1600 USD
• Scope: Describing and summarizing data, regression analysis, using Excel

Created by Harvard Business School Online

8. Business and Data Analysis Skills

Let your team discover vital company management techniques with edX’s Business and Data Analysis Skills. This online business analysis course discusses tools, such as spreadsheet applications like Excel for doing basic analyses. Learners will know how to do market and financial analyses and use different approaches and results presentations. There’s a course recap at the end and a final assessment to test knowledge retention and understanding.

It takes three weeks to complete this business analysis training. Unlike the majority of courses on edX, there’s an enrollment fee as part of FullbridgeX’s Skills for Success Professional Certificate Program.

• Cost: 149 USD
• Scope: Spreadsheet basics with Excel, market analysis, financial analysis

Created by edX

10. Scale and Growth

Scaling is a crucial component of business analysis since it involves understanding the elements that influence an organization's growth and figuring out how to support it. This course starts by educating learners on the difference between growth vs. scale. It then sheds light on what it takes for SaaS startups to scale. The next lesson discusses common scaling issues and challenges that startups can encounter along with their possible solutions. 

The course also lays out the metrics for success and how to measure them. As companies continue to grow, the last lesson will tackle the positive effects it has on your workforce and how they can benefit from it.

Do you work with a team spread across the globe? Say goodbye to language barriers and hello to engaging with learners from all over the world with ease. SC Training (formerly EdApp)'s awesome in-built translation tool can translate your content in just minutes! This tool takes care of all the heavy lifting, so you can focus on creating top-notch content for your dispersed learners.

• Cost: Free
• Scope: Scale vs. growth, common scaling issues, measuring scale and growth, positive effects of scaling on employees

Created by SC Training (formerly EdApp)