Data Analysis for Decision Making

The useful skill is not producing a chart but establishing whether the data can answer the question being asked. This programme covers framing, cleaning, analysis and the honest communication of uncertainty, using the delegate's own operational data where possible.

It runs 7 times over the published calendar, in 6 cities and live online. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.

• Frame a business question so that data can address it.
• Assess whether the available data is fit for the question.
• Apply the analysis appropriate to the question rather than the familiar one.
• Communicate a finding with its uncertainty intact.

Analysts, managers who commission analysis, and specialists moving into a data facing role.

Short input, then work. Across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each, the balance sits deliberately with the second: a programme where the trainer talks for six hours produces notes rather than capability.

• Your own material

  Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.

• A capped cohort

  Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.

• Practice under scrutiny

  The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.

• Something to take back

  Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.

• A framed question and data requirement for a live decision.
• A data quality assessment method.
• A worked analysis with assumptions documented.
• A one page finding written for a decision maker.

A GATI certificate recording what you attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended.

Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record, which is what makes it worth holding. It records participation. This site will not imply one it does not have.