Brian Dickinson
Introductory course to Business Information Analysis
How to Model the Essential Information of an Organization
Self paced
tutorials
This tutorial teaches you how to analyze the Information/Data aspects of any business, large or small.
This is an introductory technical course for anyone wanting to understand how to analyze the information/data aspects of an organization. The subject matter is an essential part creating a quality business or any Business Improvement effort.
This is an Introductory Tutorial intended to give you a good knowledge of Information Analysis concepts and a reading knowledge of the Information Analysis effort result, which is a business Information Analysis Specification containing a Data Model such as an Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) and supporting specifications for Entities, Relationships and Data Elements.
Even though this is an introductory tutorial that can be used to analyze any size organization, there’s enough information in this course to create an Information Model and support specifications for a business.
The course uses pictures, graphics both static and animated, with voice over to show the various real world examples.
There are no prerequisites for this material, no exams or certifications.
With over 10 lectures (Videos) and 1 hour of content you will learn:
- The Goals of Information Analysis
- How to Discover Essential Information
- An Overview of Information Analysis including Modeling notation for a typical Data Model and an Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD)
- How to Identify and Depict Entities (Groups of data in a Business) on an Information Model and Specify them in a Support Specification
- How to Identify and Depict Relationships between Entities on an Information Model and Specify them in a Support Specification
- How to Gather and Specify Data Elements (Facts about Entities) in a Support Specification
- The importance of using Business Events to Identify Essential Data
- How to use an Information Model to create new File Designs (both Computer and Manual files).
Language of instruction: English
- Understand the important aspects of Information Analysis
- Learn the Three major Components of an Information Model
- Learn how to separate Essential from Non-Essential Data
Brian Dickinson is Founder and President of Logical Conclusions, Inc., a training and consulting company specializing in how to create a Customer Focused, Event Driven organization. For over three decades he has assisted Business Process Management/Improvement and ReEngineering projects at many major corporations and government agencies.
Brian is the creator of numerous videos and educational tutorials on how to create the definitive efficient business structure for any organization.
He has also taught thousands of attendees at his live business and technical workshop seminars.
As a prolific guest speaker he has given talks at many Business Process/Information Resource conferences such as conducting keynote and featured speeches at:
He has been a proud participant in the US Citizen Ambassador Program representing the U.S. in China and Russia.
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