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SPARK + TRACE Analytics

A ten-week beginner course linking problem framing, Excel, SQL, Tableau, AI verification, decision writing, presentation, and portfolio evidence.

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Practical Analyst Playbook

A reusable process for scoping, analysis, verification, storytelling, and professional delivery.

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Technician to Strategist

How analysts build durable value through problem framing, governance, proactive hypotheses, storytelling, and executive decision support.

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Converging Roles of Business Analysis and Project Management

How charters, timeboxing, lifecycle thinking, stakeholder alignment, and change management strengthen analytics work.

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AI's Impact on Excel Analytics Education

Why strategic context, verification, and critical judgment matter more as software automates spreadsheet mechanics.

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Analyst Demand Profile and CEO Expectations

A review of the capabilities leaders expect from modern analysts and how those expectations affect education and career preparation.

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Data Analyst's Toolkit

A practical collection of methods, tools, habits, and checks for defensible analysis.

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Introduction to Data Analytics

An accessible overview of the analytics process, major tool categories, and the relationship between evidence and decision-making.

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The Elite Data Analyst

A blueprint organized around four sources of business value: revenue, cost, risk, and strategic growth.

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SPARK Career Development

Skills, Portfolio, AI usage, Relationships, and Knowledge in Action. A durable career framework with weekly habits and evidence of growth.

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SPARK Course Capability Profile

Self, Position, Augment, Relationships, and Knowledge to Proof. The separate capability profile used in the ten-week analytics course.

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TRACE Business Analysis

Translate the problem, Retrieve evidence, Analyze, Challenge, then Explain and Execute. A repeatable evidence-to-action routine.

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ORBIT Analysis Workflow

Objective, Resources, Build, Inspect, Transfer. Plan an analysis, check the result, and apply the skill to a new problem.

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Problem Architect AI Orchestration

A separate 15-module course blueprint about framing, decomposing, assigning, designing, testing, and governing AI-enabled business systems. This is a curriculum blueprint, not an enrollment or certification offer.

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Problem Architect White Paper

A short explanation of the role at the boundary of business judgment and technology. Read this before the detailed course blueprint.

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Curriculum Currency Auditor

A reusable review kit for course relevance, learning evidence, program outcomes, career skills, and responsible AI. Produces sourced KEEP, UPDATE, ADD, and REMOVE recommendations for faculty review.

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ISA 2010 Course Supervisor Guide

A proposed coordination guide for course baselines, instructor support, MOS logistics, assessment evidence, and continuous improvement. Local program leadership approves roles and changes.

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Teaching Students to Think with AI

A teaching philosophy organized around Ask, Analyze, Improve, Apply, and Reflect. Includes prompts for assessing judgment, verification, and learning.

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New Analyst Acceleration Kit

Five distinct resources: master playbook, quick field guide, practice workbook, terminology guide, and professional questions and answers. Start with the field guide, then apply one method.

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Seasoned Analyst Toolbox

A separate collection of reusable checks, templates, SQL examples, method selection, KPI governance, peer review, AI safety, and delivery practices.

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TrailPeak Analytics Practice

A small fictional retail dataset for learning Excel, SQL, visual explanation, and verification. Includes actual practice files and checked examples without SUMMIT+ assessment answer keys.

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AI Video Creation Project

Plan an audience, storyboard, assets, and quality checks for an AI-assisted video.

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LinkedIn Post Assistant

A focused writing-assistant project. Treat the guide as a design exercise; reach and engagement are not guaranteed.

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Build and Deploy an App Using Claude

A beginner project guide for turning an idea into an application. Product interfaces and plan limits should be checked before use.

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Building Automations

Find a repeatable workflow, choose a trigger and action, and test normal cases and exceptions.

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Reusable Prompt Library

Organize prompts around clear tasks, context, output formats, and verification steps.

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AI Career Research

Use prompts to explore roles and capabilities, then verify requirements against employers and current sources.

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Practical Analyst Reusable Toolkit

24 editable templates organized across planning, data quality, analysis, delivery, and closeout. Each includes a completion check.

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AI Prompt Collection

A searchable spreadsheet of prompts. Use each as a starting specification and independently verify consequential outputs.

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AI Project Idea Experiments

Two idea sheets for exploring small AI-enabled projects and business experiments. Evaluate a real user need, costs and evidence before committing time or money.

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Information Systems Teaching Collection

Course summaries on global information systems, problem analysis, organizational value, SQL and communicating analytical findings. Sharing varies by source document.

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Ten Business Topics Shaping the Near Future

Agentic AI, compute economics, AI-native redesign, cybersecurity, robotics, identity, quantum computing, connectivity, sustainability, and career guidance for students.

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FLOW State: What Is It?

A concise explanation of deep focus, the conditions that support it, and why it matters in learning, performance, and well-being.

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The Power of Good Design Is Simplicity

Why useful design depends on clarity, restraint, intuitive interaction, durability, and the discipline to remove what does not help.

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Teaching Philosophy Statement

The fuller source statement describing the teaching principles summarized on the About page.

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101 Excel Functions

A reference guide for common spreadsheet functions.

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Excel Shortcuts

A practical keyboard-shortcut reference for more efficient spreadsheet work.

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Ultimate 3000 Prompt Library

A large searchable collection of prompts for AI-assisted work.

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Make Your Own Prompt Library

Directions for organizing reusable prompts around tasks and outcomes.

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AI Video Creation Project Guide

A structured project guide for planning and creating AI-assisted video.

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Build a Viral LinkedIn Post Assistant

A guided build for a focused AI writing assistant.

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Build and Deploy Your Own App Using Claude

A beginner project guide for moving from idea to a deployed application.

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AI Career Research Prompts

Prompts for exploring roles, required capabilities, and career directions.

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AI Project and Side-Hustle Idea Sheets

Two spreadsheets for brainstorming possible AI-enabled projects and business experiments.

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Global Information Systems

Course material on technology in business environments and information systems.

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Analyzing Business Situations and Defending Solutions

A management information systems framework for identifying functional and technological issues and defending a course of action.

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Implementing Information Systems to Create Value

Strategies for improving information systems and connecting technology to organizational value.

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Using SQL for Business Data

An introduction to querying and managing data for business use.

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Communicating Analytical Findings with Visuals

Principles for developing effective data visualizations and explaining what the evidence means.

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Master Playbook

Follow the workflow from business framing through data, analysis, delivery, and review.

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Quick Reference Field Guide

Start here for a concise checklist and the next useful action.

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Practice Workbook

Complete blank working templates while applying the methods to your own case.

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Terminology Guide

Look up terms such as grain, lineage, hypothesis, dashboard, and governance.

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Questions and Professional Answers

Read common beginner questions and practical mentoring responses.

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SPARK · Career development

Skills, Portfolio, AI usage, Relationships, and Knowledge in Action. Build useful capabilities, show evidence of your work, use AI thoughtfully, learn with others, and apply knowledge to create value.

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SPARK · Course capability profile

Self, Position, Augment, Relationships, and Knowledge to Proof. Inventory what you can demonstrate, identify where it creates value, explore AI support, build relationships, and choose evidence that proves growth.

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TRACE

Translate the problem, Retrieve evidence, Analyze, Challenge, then Explain and Execute. E includes both communication and action. Keep a visible evidence record throughout.

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ORBIT

Organize, Review, Build, Inspect, Tell. Preserve source data, review fields and quality, build the analysis, inspect the results, and tell the decision-relevant finding.

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Problem Architect

Define the audience, decision, evidence, constraints, and action before starting analysis.

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AI verification pattern

Use AI for acceleration while keeping human responsibility for the source, logic, result, and consequence.

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Analytics software stack

Understand the distinct roles of Excel, SQL, Tableau, Power BI, Python, and AI assistants instead of expecting one tool to do everything.

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Analyst habits

Use hypotheses, a single source of truth, reasonableness checks, documentation, timeboxes, and the “So What?” test.

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