IBCS® Certified Analyst (inhouse)

Compose compelling reports using ISO 24896 notation

What makes reports, presentations and dashboards easier and better to understand? Learn the difference between reports for messaging and dashboards for self-service. We'll show you that both need consistent notation, a well-organized structure, the right chart types, high information density, and proper scaling. Then, through numerous exercises, practice applying what you've learned, optionally using IBCS Certified Software. Followed by an online test for becoming an IBCS® Certified Analyst.

Objectives

Learn and apply the International Business Communication Standards (IBCS) that help creators of reports, presentations, and dashboards communicate more effectively and their consumers understand faster and better. With numerous before-and-after examples and hands-on exercises.

Training fee

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IBCS® Certified Software

We can optionally perform some exercices using your IBCS® Certified Software and infrastructure. For details please contact us.

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PROGRAM

We are excited to announce that we now offer the IBCS Certified Analyst in-house training with the option to use your IBCS compliant software of choice. If your team is already using a specific tool and wishes to make IBCS exercises on that tool, we encourage you to join us for the workshop conducted directly on your chosen tool. This unique approach not only helps you grasp the IBCS concepts but also provides hands-on experience on your familiar software.

Part 1
Compose compelling stories using ISO 24896 notation

Introduction: The basics of business communication

  • Reports and dashboards: Analysis or message conveyance?
  • Decision support by Artificial Intelligence
  • ISO 24896 and the SUCCESS formula of the IBCS Standards

A
USE ISO 24896 NOTATION FOR BUSINESS REPORTING

SIMPLIFY: Avoid clutter

  • Avoid noise and redundancies

UNIFY: Apply semantic notation 

  • Unify terminology and visualization

CHECK: Ensure visual integrity

  • Apply proper scaling

B
COMPOSE COMPELLING STORIES

SAY: Convey a message

  • Detect, explain, or suggest

STRUCTURE: Organize content 

  • Use homogeneous, non-overlapping and exhaustive elements

EXPRESS: Choose proper visualization

  • Use correct chart types

CONDENSE: Increase information density

  • Add data, elements, and objects

Summary

  • Next steps

Part 2
Application of the SUCCESS formula

Introduction 

  • Summary of Part 1 and workshop objective
  • Testing individual level of IBCS knowledge

Application of ISO 24896 notation for business reporting 

  • Elaboration of rules for a consistent notation
  • Group exercise on designing a report
  • Presentation of the results
  • Discussion of the necessity and the contents of a notation manual
  • Support by ISO 24896 compliant software and templates

Composition and storytelling 

  • Elaboration of rules for creating compelling storylines
  • Group exercise on improving the comprehensibility of a text
  • Elaboration of rules for the proper choice of chart types and increasing information density
  • Group exercise with case studies
  • Presentation of the results

Closing discussion

  • Company-wide improvement of composition and storytelling
  • The importance of data governance and the role of artificial intelligence in reporting

Breaks

With classroom courses there is a lunch break of one hour at 12:30 and two coffee breaks in the morning and in the afternoon.

In the case of online courses, break times can be arranged individually.