AMA Analytical Skills

Amp up Your Career by Improving Your Data and Analytical Skills.

Organizations with fully developed analytics skills—the ability to organize, analyze, and communicate data that can be applied to their human capital and not just to the other elements of their business—will continue to be the top performers in the years to come.

If you want to help your organization become more competitive (and enhance your own career in the process), here is some basic information about analytics from AMA’s Data and Analytical course offerings:

Improving your analytical skills will help you:

• Apply techniques to information to help determine what is relevant
• Put information into a form that can be analyzed
• Analyze information in order to identify the “best” opportunity for your business, and explain your reasoning
• Recognize patterns, and discern what they can mean for your business
• Identify a framework as the basis for creating presentations that use information you’ve derived from your analysis

Demand for Analytical Skills to Grow Sharply Over Next Five Years

With the increasing significance of “Big Data” for business today, the demand for analytical skills training is expected to grow sharply over the next five years, according to a study by American Management Association (AMA). The study, commissioned by AMA and conducted by the Institute for Corporate Productivity i4cp), surveyed nearly 800 business executives in more than 50 industries and 40 countries. Among other issues, the study sought to assess organizations’ need for analytical skills.