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Mastering the spreadsheet or industrialising steering
Two answers to the same need: seeing clearly in your figures. The first takes a few weeks and transforms how you use a spreadsheet. The second installs a full steering chain over two years. Here are both formats, with their real volumes and fees.
Two answers to the same question
The short course acts on the tool you have already open: lookup formulas, pivot tables, automation, a dashboard leadership can actually read. You leave with working files you built yourself. The programme acts on how the data itself is organised: warehouse, dimensional model, shared indicators, visualisation, steering rituals. You leave able to put a whole company under a dashboard, and to hold the monthly meeting where it is read.
A few weeks or two years
| Criterion | Advanced Excel | Business Intelligence and Steering |
|---|---|---|
| What is awarded | Course attendance certificate | Bachelor's degree |
| Duration | 2 months | 2 years |
| Weekly workload | 8 h per week | 20 h per week |
| Teaching blocks | 4 | 7 |
| Supervised hours | 40 h | 1200 h |
| Credits | 4 credits | 120 credits |
| Fees | 900 000 GNF in total | 5 000 000 GNF per year |
The workload, side by side
- per week
- 8 h
- per week
- 20 h
- supervised in total
- 40 h
- supervised in total
- 1200 h
Advanced Excel
Business Intelligence and Steering
Advanced Excel
Business Intelligence and Steering
The objectives each one states
Advanced Excel
- Handle lookup, conditional and array formulas
- Build usable pivot tables
- Automate repetitive tasks
- Produce a dashboard leadership can actually read
Business Intelligence and Steering
- Gather data from several systems without losing its meaning
- Establish a dataset's reliability before publishing it
- Build a dashboard that reads without a manual
- Defend an indicator before the people it measures
How to position yourself
- A dashboard to produce yourself this month: the short course goes straight there
- A data chain to install for a whole organisation: the programme builds it
- A tight budget and diary: the short format asks for a few weeks
- A career trajectory towards steering: the programme awards a level credential
- The two chain together: the spreadsheet first, the full chain next
What we are asked most
Does the short course assume spreadsheet skills?
It starts from everyday spreadsheet use, described precisely in the prerequisite on its programme page.
Does the programme also use spreadsheets?
Yes, as a starting point and a checking tool, before moving on to data warehouses and visualisation tools.
Can the short course be taken during the programme?
Yes, it is self-paced. Add the two weekly loads from the table together to check your week.
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