BIAM 300ENTIRE COURSE

BIAM 300 Week 1 Activity

Step 1
Your job is to read the Chapter 1 section "Case Study: How to Make an Information Strategy for a
Radio Station" and complete the following requirements.
Step 2
At this point, you should have a solid understanding of the BA model. Your goal now is to write a one-
page (minimum) paper using 12-point font, double spacing, and Times New Roman in order to
describe what you learned in this activity. Answer the following questions.
What are the advantages of using the BA model?
What are the disadvantages of using the BA model?
What did you learn from this exercise, and how is it important to businesses?
BIAM 300 Week 1 Homework Assignment
Essay Questions
Answer the following essay questions in your own words.

1.Describe the role a business analyst has in the BIA model.

2.Why is it important that the KPIs are closely linked to the business objectives?

3.In today's environment, what modifications, if any, would you have to make to the BIA model
for small businesses (less than 100 employees)?

4.Describe the role a data warehouse performs in the BIA model and what the ETL function
does.

5.Discuss the pros and cons of a business analyst being located in the following areas: in IT; in a
line department (e.g., marketing); in finance or accounting; in a staff role.

BIAM 300 Week 2 Homework Assignment

1. Define strategy and describe how it is used in an organization.

2. Discuss the methods you might use to identify whether or not an organization is using
information as a strategic asset.

1. Describe the three market disciplines an organization might use to attain market
leadership. Describe the implications for information collection and prioritization for each.

BIAM 300 Week 2 Activity

What did you learn from this exercise, and how is it important to businesses?
Which of the following four BIA levels of the company should you be using? Support your
choice.
Describe the information sources and items that the company should be using to support its
position. Why would these be important information sources?

BIAM 300 Week 3 Activity

BIAM 300 Week 3 Activity

1. Identify what you believe to be the two most important success factors;
2. For each success factor, identify two KPIs; and
3. Write a two-page (minimum) paper using 12-point font, double spacing, and Times New Roman
to describe the two most important success factors and KPIs.

BIAM 300 Week 3 Homework Assignment

1. Describe the relationship between objectives and critical success factors.
2. Describe the difference between lead and lag information and when each should be used.
3. Describe the difference in approach of monitoring a new business process versus an existing
one.

BIAM 300 Week 4 Activity

Question 1: Determine with the process owner whether the quantitative analytical competencies or
the data manager and report developer competencies are required.
Is there is a correlation between how much of a raise we give our employees and the risk of
employees leaving the company within one year?

Question 2: Determine whether hypothesis-driven analytics or data-driven analytics can be

expected to render the best decision support.

Question 3: Determine whether the data-driven method has the objective of examining the
correlation between one given dependent variable and a large number of other variables or whether
the objective is to identify different kinds of structures in data.

BIAM 300 Week 4 Homework Assignment

Which of the above questions and answers are lead information and which are lag information?
2. Which of the above questions and answers belong to the information domain and which
belong to the knowledge domain?
3. What are the pros and cons of using these different methods?

BIAM 300 Week 5 Activity

In this activity, you will discuss the differences between a relational database and an OLAP cube.

BIAM 300 Week 5 Homework Assignment

Answer the following essay questions in your own words.
1. What are dimensions and how can you use them? Provide examples.
2. What are metrics and facts? Provide examples.
3. Why have a metadata repository?
4. What does an ETL job do? Provide examples.
5. What is an OLAP cube?
6. What is a data mart?
7. It is often said in data warehouse projects that you should think big, start small, and deliver
fast. Why is that?
8. What is SQL and how can you use it?
9. How do businesspeople normally access BI information? What does data quality mean, and why
is it important?
10. What is an ODS, and why have it?

BIAM 300 Week 6 Activity

BIAM 300 Week 6 Activity

BIAM 300 Week 6 Homework Assignment

Essay Questions
Answer the following essay questions in your own words.
1.Describe the difference between the following pairs and provide examples for each.
Internal and external data sources
Primary and secondary data sources
2.Discuss how the dimensions of usability and availability can be used to decide which sources of
information might be useful. Provide examples to support your case.
3.Discuss the steps an organization should take to ensure that data quality is at an acceptable level.
For each step, provide examples of converting bad data to good.

BIAM 300 Week 7 Activity

BIAM 300 Week 7 Homework Assignment
1. Specify the organizational location alternatives, including the advantages and disadvantages of
each.
2. Using both maturity analysis and readiness analysis, assess how a business analytics process can
be related to other business processes.
3. Describe in your own words how business analytics is likely to be different in the future.