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Global Postharvest Loss Prevention: Fundamentals, Technologies, and Actors (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/postharvest This course provides an overview of the issue of postharvest loss of grains by exploring essential physical, technical, and social dimensions of postharvest supply chains and loss prevention methods globally. Each year, estimates suggest that 1/3 of all food produced is lost or wasted, making postharvest loss a critical global food security and sustainability issue of today. Key knowledge areas are presented including: -An overview of postharvest loss -Supply chain activities such as harvesting |
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Global Strategy I: How The Global Economy Works (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/global-strategy Starting in the late 1990s, “globalization” became a buzzword to describe the apparent integration of markets in the world economy. Many authors and pundits claimed that the world was converging towards a market-friendly democratic place, while gurus and consulting firms were rapidly producing formulae and advice on how to make profits out of the global economy. Decades later, new realities show that globalization does not necessarily mean political, cultural, and economic convergence and that, |
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Global Strategy II: Doing Business in The Global Economy (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/global-strategy-two This course explores the ways firms overcome challenges when operating globally – a process characterized for its complexity and uncertainty. Corporations trying to succeed in the global economy need to develop different types of strategies depending on where they are conducting business or industry they are in. You will be able to: • -Determine the best strategy to follow when expanding globally • -Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of those strategies • -Develop appropriate responses |
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Hands-on Internet of Things (CourseraSpecs) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/uiuc-iot Offered by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Gain real-world experience with IoT. Techniques and Concepts of Internet of Things |
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Inferential and Predictive Statistics for Business (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/business-statistics This course provides an analytical framework to help you evaluate key problems in a structured fashion and will equip you with tools to better manage the uncertainties that pervade and complicate business processes. To this end, the course aims to cover statistical ideas that apply to managers by discussing two basic themes: first, is recognizing and describing variations present in everything around us, and then modeling and making decisions in the presence of these variations. The fundamental |
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Infonomics I: Business Information Economics and Data Monetization (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/infonomics-1 Thriving in the Information Age compels organizations to deploy information as an actual business asset, not as an IT asset or merely as a business byproduct. This demands creativity in conceiving and implementing new ways to generate economic benefits from the wide array of information assets available to an organization. Unfortunately, information too frequently is underappreciated and therefore underutilized. This first course in the two-part Infonomics series provides a non-technical per |
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Infonomics II: Business Information Management and Measurement (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/infonomics-2 Even decades into the Information Age, accounting practices yet fail to recognize the financial value of information. Moreover, traditional asset management practices fail to recognize information as an asset to be managed with earnest discipline. This has led to a business culture of complacence, and the inability for most organizations to fully leverage available information assets. This second course in the two-part Infonomics series explores how and why to adapt well-honed asset management |
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Innovation: From Creativity to Entrepreneurship (CourseraSpecs) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/innovation-creativity-entrepreneurship Offered by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Innovate in a Connected World. Learn about frameworks to manage and innovate in ... |
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Innovation: From Creativity to Entrepreneurship Capstone (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/innovation-creativity-entrepreneurship-capstone The capstone for the specialization will provide a learning experience that integrates across all the courses within it. It will involve analysis of a situation concerning a new enterprise – a venture of one’s own or within a larger organization – to develop the current business model and compare against alternative business models so as to identify potential opportunities and challenges. |
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Instructional Design Foundations and Applications (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/instructional-design-foundations-applications This course, Instructional Design Foundations, introduces learners to the conceptual and theoretical foundations of instructional design as well as the analysis aspect of instructional systems design in order to create an innovative instructional solution to performance problems in organizations. This particular course also introduces learners to concepts covered in the Instructional Design MasterTrack Certificate. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to: ●Describe the maj |
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Introduction to Accounting Data Analytics and Visualization (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/intro-accounting-data-analytics-visual Accounting has always been about analytical thinking. From the earliest days of the profession, Luca Pacioli emphasized the importance of math and order for analyzing business transactions. The skillset that accountants have needed to perform math and to keep order has evolved from pencil and paper, to typewriters and calculators, then to spreadsheets and accounting software. A new skillset that is becoming more important for nearly every aspect of business is that of big data analytics: analyzi |
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Introduction to Business Analytics and Information Economics (CourseraSpecs) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/analytics-information Offered by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Analytic opportunities and the value of data. Gain the ability to process data to ... |
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Introduction to Business Analytics: Communicating with Data (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/intro-business-analytics This course introduces students to the science of business analytics while casting a keen eye toward the artful use of numbers found in the digital space. The goal is to provide businesses and managers with the foundation needed to apply data analytics to real-world challenges they confront daily in their professional lives. Students will learn to identify the ideal analytic tool for their specific needs; understand valid and reliable ways to collect, analyze, and visualize data; and utilize dat |
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Introduction to Finance: The Basics (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-to-finance-the-basics In the Introduction to Finance I: The Basics course, you will be introduced to the basic concepts needed to understand the financial manager’s decision-making process. To achieve that, you will learn about the basic forms a business can take and the goal of the financial manager. You will also learn the fundamentals of financial statements and how to measure a company’s financial health using financial ratios. In addition, you will explore how to allocate capital across time to create value. Aft |
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Introduction to Finance: The Role of Financial Markets (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-to-finance-the-role-of-financial-markets In Introduction to Finance: The Role of Financial Markets, you will be introduced to the basic concepts and skills needed for financial managers to make informed decisions. With an overview of the structure and dynamics of financial markets and commonly used financial instruments, you will get crucial skills to make capital investment decisions. With these skills, you will be ready to understand how to measure returns and risks and establish the relationship between these two. The focus of this |
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Introduction to Financial Analysis - The "Why?" (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-to-financial-analysis-the-why In this course, you will learn the foundations important to developing and implementing a financially analytic mindset. This course introduces the foundations of financial analysis, beginning with the first question: what is financial analysis? You will learn about the importance of adopting and applying a financial perspective. You will learn about accounting and finance principles and fundamentals. Accounting principles allow for the creation of consistent and reliable financial information. |
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Introduction to Sustainability (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/sustainability This course introduces the academic approach of Sustainability and explores how today’s human societies can endure in the face of global change, ecosystem degradation and resource limitations. The course focuses on key knowledge areas of sustainability theory and practice, including population, ecosystems, global change, energy, agriculture, water, environmental economics and policy, ethics, and cultural history. This subject is of vital importance, seeking as it does to uncover the principles |
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Investment Banking: Financial Analysis and Valuation (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/investment-banking-financial-analysis-valuation This course will provide students the key building blocks required for a career in investment banking, valuation, and other corporate-finance focused fields. It is designed to provide a practical application of financial statement analysis and valuation techniques commonly performed by industry professionals. The course has two major parts. The first focuses on the foundational elements of financial statement and ratio analysis. The second applies the financial statements and forecasts within |
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Investment Banking: M&A and Initial Public Offerings (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/investment-banking-mergers-acquisitions-ipos This course focuses on examining various practical applications of the fundamental financial analysis and valuation techniques employed in the investment banking industry. Specifically, we will examine how to analyze how a private equity firm or other financial sponsor completes a leveraged buyout of a company, how a public company analyzes the impact of acquiring a company on its earnings per share, and how a company completes an initial public offering. The course will benefit anyone who d |
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Investments I: Fundamentals of Performance Evaluation (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/investments-fundamentals In this course, we will discuss fundamental principles of trading off risk and return, portfolio optimization, and security pricing. We will study and use risk-return models such as the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and multi-factor models to evaluate the performance of various securities and portfolios. Specifically, we will learn how to interpret and estimate regressions that provide us with both a benchmark to use for a security given its risk (determined by its beta), as well as a risk- |
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Investments II: Lessons and Applications for Investors (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/investments-applications In this course, you will start by reviewing the fundamentals of investments, including the trading off of return and risk when forming a portfolio, asset pricing models such as the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and the 3-Factor Model, and the efficient market hypothesis. You will be introduced to the two components of stock returns – dividends and capital gains – and will learn how each are taxed and the incentives provided to investors from a realization-based capital gains tax. You will |
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https://www.coursera.org/learn/iot-cloud This course is the last course in our series of four courses and builds on the previous three courses: IoT Devices, IoT Communications, and IoT Networking. After we have built and programmed a small self-driving vehicle, we then set out to enhance its connectivity and add important security infrastructure. In this course we will now look closer into various remaining types of decentralized network topography. In the lab, we will additionally cover important cloud technologies based on machine-le |
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https://www.coursera.org/learn/iot-networking This course builds on the first two courses in this series: IoT Devices and IoT Communications. Here you will begin to learn enterprise IoT. Enterprise networks, from first-hop access to backend IoT services are critical because they allow your IoT devices to reach the Internet and achieve their true intelligence. IoT places extreme demands on first-hop access - ultra-dense deployments challenge spectrum allocation, the need to provide strong segmentation yet let devices reach into IoT services |
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https://www.coursera.org/learn/lactation-biology Lactation and especially milk, which is the product of that unique mammalian process, are routinely encountered within our daily lives. Nevertheless, they often are poorly understood by many, even including many who are engaged in the business of producing milk. The overall course goal is to introduce fundamental concepts that form the basis for understanding the biology of lactation, the biology of the mammary gland, and the products of that important physiological process. As a learner in thi |
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Le marketing dans un monde numérique (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/marketing-digital-fr Ce cours aborde la manière dont les nouveaux outils numériques (Internet, smartphones, impression 3D) révolutionnent le monde du marketing en modifiant les rôles et les habitudes des entreprises comme des clients. Avec plus de 500 000 étudiants, le cours « Le marketing dans un monde numérique » est l’un des plus populaires de Coursera, et Class Central le considère comme l’un des 50 meilleurs MOOC de tous les temps (https://www.class-central.com/report/top-moocs/). Vous pourrez : • Comprendre c |
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Leading Teams: Building Effective Team Cultures (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/leading-teams-building-effective-team-cultures In this foundational course, you will immerse yourself in the idea of building effective team cultures. You will explore different facets of team culture that are at the root of effective teams. You'll learn more about cultures of safety, engagement, and growth, so that you can lead your teams toward cultures that facilitate the most effective teamwork. This course is part of Gies College of Business’ suite of online programs, including the iMBA and iMSM. Learn more about admission into these p |
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Leading Teams: Developing as a Leader (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/leading-teams-developing-as-a-leader In this foundational course, you will be challenged to develop as a leader. You will explore the concept of leadership, assess required competencies for today's leaders, learn more about yourself and how you can make effective and ethical decisions, identify how to build trusting relationships with others, and articulate a practice for growing as a leader. This course is part of Gies College of Business’ suite of online programs, including the iMBA, iMSA and iMSM. Learn more about admission int |
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Learning Technologies Foundations and Applications (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-technologies-foundations-applications This course, Learning Technologies Foundations and Applications, is one of the two four-week MOOC courses that form part of Instructional Design MasterTrack Certificate. After completing the course, you will be able to: 1. Identify suitable learning technology applications for problem-solving tasks. 2. Evaluate learning technology solutions based on Cognitive Load Theory and related multimedia learning design models. 3. Justify the selection of learning technologies for solving organizational p |
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Learning, Knowledge, and Human Development (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-knowledge-human-development This course sets out to provide an understanding of theories of learning and development and how these theories relate to educational technology. It has two components. The first is theoretical, in which we attempt to develop an overall frame of reference, locating approaches to the psychology of learning in terms of large paradigm shifts, from ‘behaviorism’ to ‘brain developmentalism’ to ‘social cognitivism’. The second component is practical, in which we will use these theoretical concepts to |
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Literacy Teaching and Learning: Aims, Approaches and Pedagogies (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/literacy-teaching-learning This course opens with an exploration of the social context and aims of literacy teaching and learning. It goes on to describe a range of historical and contemporary approaches to literacy pedagogy, including didactic, authentic, functional, and critical approaches. The course takes has a 'Multiliteracies' perspective, which aims to expand the definition of literacy to encompass today's multimodal communications, and the diversity of literacies across different social and culltural contexts. A M |
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Machine Learning Algorithms with R in Business Analytics (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning-algorithms-r-business-analytics One of the most exciting aspects of business analytics is finding patterns in the data using machine learning algorithms. In this course you will gain a conceptual foundation for why machine learning algorithms are so important and how the resulting models from those algorithms are used to find actionable insight related to business problems. Some algorithms are used for predicting numeric outcomes, while others are used for predicting the classification of an outcome. Other algorithms are used |
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Machine Learning for Accounting with Python (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning-accounting-python This course, Machine Learning for Accounting with Python, introduces machine learning algorithms (models) and their applications in accounting problems. It covers classification, regression, clustering, text analysis, time series analysis. It also discusses model evaluation and model optimization. This course provides an entry point for students to be able to apply proper machine learning models on business related datasets with Python to solve various problems. Accounting Data Analytics with P |
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Managerial Accounting: Cost Behaviors, Systems, and Analysis (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/accounting-for-managers In this course, you will learn how to use accounting to facilitate and align decisions made by owners, managers, and employees. You will learn how accountants create, organize, interpret, and communicate information that improves internal processes and allows organizations to identify and leverage opportunities to create value within the supply chain and with customers. You will be able to: • Understand what managerial accounting is and why it is an important function for successful business |
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Managerial Accounting: Tools for Facilitating and Guiding Business Decisions (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/managerial-accounting-business-decisions In this course, you will explore how to use accounting to allocate resources and incentivize manager and employee behaviors with these resources. You will also learn how financial and non-financial accounting information facilitates strategic performance measurement and how to integrate this information to continuously improve strategy. You will be able to: • Understand the role of managerial accounting information and use it to avoid common pitfalls in business decisions • Understand the it |
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Managerial Economics and Business Analysis (CourseraSpecs) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/managerial-economics-business-analysis Offered by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Unravel Economics to Drive Business Decisions. Learners will be able to use economic ... |
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Managing Innovation: Ambidexterity, Teams and Leading Change (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/managing-innovation You may have noticed that what is new often behaves differently than what has become accepted over time, whether it is in a market, or a technology, or involves people and firms. Much research supports these general ideas, and one implication is that management of innovation often requires different approaches and skills than management in established arenas. This course helps you develop a perspective on managing innovation. That is, you will build your capability to lead and design your org |
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Managing Supply Chain Disruption During COVID-19 (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/supply-chain-disruption In this course, you will learn about why and how supply chains become susceptible to a disruption. We will examine this by discussing supply side and demand side issues, primary supply chain flows, complexity, risk management and a combination of solid theoretical supply chain perspectives and current real-world stories. You will learn about the structural, relational and operational factors that come into play during a supply chain disruption and the mechanisms for the effective management of t |
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Marketing in a Digital World (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/marketing-digital This course examines how new digital tools, such as the Internet, smartphones, and 3D printing, are revolutionizing the world of marketing by changing the roles and practices of both firms and consumers. Marketing in a Digital World is one of the most popular courses on Coursera with over 500,000 learners and is rated by Class Central as one of the Top 50 MOOCs of All Time (https://www.class-central.com/report/top-moocs/). You will be able to: • Understand how digital tools are changing the na |
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Mercadotecnia en un mundo digital (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/marketing-digital-es Este curso examina cómo las herramientas digitales, como Internet, los teléfonos inteligentes y la impresión 3D, están revolucionando el mundo de la mercadotecnia al cambiar las funciones y las prácticas de las empresas y de los consumidores. Mercadotecnia en un mundo digital es uno de los cursos más populares en Coursera con más de 250 000 estudiantes y ha recibido la calificación de uno de los Principales 50 MOOC de todos los tiempos de Class Central (https://www.class-central.com/report/top-m |
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Mergers and Acquisitions (CourseraSpecs) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/mergersandacquisitions Offered by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Learn to execute successful M&A strategies. Learners will be able to gain a wholistic ... |
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Microeconomics Principles (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/microeconomics Most people make the incorrect assumption that economics is ONLY the study of money. My primary goal in this course is to shatter this belief. During this course, we will be addressing the above questions as well as many more relating to: -the environment -love and marriage -crime -labor markets -education -politics -sports -business My main goal is to show you the way economists think and how to use this analytical system to answer questions related not only to these and other important human |
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Modern American Poetry (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/modern-american-poetry Twelve experienced faculty members from across the United States present their analyses of ground-breaking modern American poets in richly illustrated video lectures. The course highlights both major poets—from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson through T.S. Eliot, H.D., Amy Lowell, Hart Crane, Langston Hughes, Muriel Rukeyser, and many others—and influential movements. The course mixes historical overview with close readings of individual poets and poems. Most courses give only one instructor’s |
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Multimodal Literacies: Communication and Learning in the Era of Digital Media (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/multimodal-literacies Whereas the focus of traditional literacy pedagogy has been the written word in its standard and literary forms, this courser expands the scope of literacy learning to encompass contemporary multimodal texts and the wide range of ways of making meaning that occur in different social and cultural contexts. Another course, "Literacy Teaching and Learning: Aims, Approaches and Pedagogies" addresses pedagogical aspects of literacies. This "Multimodal Literacies" learning module does not require or e |
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Multistate Taxation (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/multistate-taxation This course will examine state and local tax laws prevalent in the United States today. The course will consider the historical progression of state and local taxation, the power of states to tax (and the limitations on that power), and planning strategies for minimizing the impact of state and local taxation. Discussions will focus on income taxes, sales taxes, and property taxes. If you enjoy this course, consider enrolling in our online graduate Accounting program. The University of Illinoi |
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Negotiating Learner Differences: Towards Productive Diversity in Learning (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/learnerdifferences An investigation of the dimensions of learner diversity: material (class, locale), corporeal (age, race, sex and sexuality, and physical and mental characteristics) and symbolic (culture, language, gender, family, affinity and persona). Examines social-cultural theories of difference, as well as considering alternative responses to these differences in educational settings - ranging from broad, institutional responses to specific pedagogical responses within classes of students. The course also |
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New Learning: Principles and Patterns of Pedagogy (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/newlearning Education is in a state of flux – transitioning from traditional architectures and practices to new ecologies of teaching and learning influenced by the tremendous social and technological changes of our times. What changes are afoot today in workplaces, civic life and everyday community life? What are their implications for education? What are the possible impacts of contemporary social transformations on teaching and learning - including in the areas of technology, media, globalization, divers |
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Object-Oriented Data Structures in C++ (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/cs-fundamentals-1 This course teaches learners how to write a program in the C++ language, including how to set up a development environment for writing and debugging C++ code and how to implement data structures as C++ classes. It is the first course in the Accelerated CS Fundamentals specialization, and subsequent courses in this specialization will be using C++ as the language for implementing the data structures covered in class. |
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Operations Management: Organization and Analysis (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/operations-management-organization-and-analysis In this course, you will learn about the role of operations and how they are connected to other business functions in manufacturing and service-focused organizations. You will learn and practice the use of decision-making frameworks and techniques applicable at all levels, from management-level strategic decisions such as connecting process to the needs of various customer segments, to front-line tactical decisions such as choosing between ordering larger quantities vs. ordering more frequently. |
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Operations Management: Quality and Supply Chain (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/operations-management-quality-and-supply-chain In this course you will focus on process improvement. You will learn how to set organizational priorities for continuous process improvement, how to execute process improvement projects, and how to sustain the initiative for continuous improvements. You will be able to: • Relate underlying principles to frameworks and techniques used for process improvement • Synthesize information to make decisions for organizational initiatives and process improvement • Apply analytical techniques for tac |
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Ordered Data Structures (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/cs-fundamentals-2 In this course, you will learn new data structures for efficiently storing and retrieving data that is structured in an ordered sequence. Such data includes an alphabetical list of names, a family tree, a calendar of events or an inventory organized by part numbers. The specific data structures covered by this course include arrays, linked lists, queues, stacks, trees, binary trees, AVL trees, B-trees and heaps. This course also shows, through algorithm complexity analysis, how these structures |