IBCS® Certified Analyst (public)

Compose compelling reports using ISO 24896 notation

What makes reports, presentations, and dashboards faster and better understandable? Learn the difference between reporting designed to support analysis and reporting intended to communicate messages. Both require consistent notation and compelling composition, which can be achieved by applying the IBCS standards. With numerous examples and hands-on exercises, we prepare you for practical application. Optional final online-test and IBCS® Certified Analyst certificate.

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.

Attendance fee

The attendance fee is 2 180 EUR (classroom), or 1 980 EUR (online), per person plus VAT except where otherwise specified. Participants from countries with significant lower income and academic staff can request for a discount at info@ibcs.com.

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Final test

After the workshop you can take an online exam for getting the certificate ‚IBCS® Certified Analyst‘. There is a playground test with 10 access codes for learning purposes available.

Online test (playground)

IBCS® Certified Trainers

Dr. Jürgen Faisst

Managing Partner at the IBCS Institute and Managing Director of the IBCS Association.

Paul Damen

Paul is a Data & Analytics Consultant at Rockfeather which is a consultancy company in the Netherlands that helps companies create better insights.

Ronald van Lent

Ronald van Lent is Managing Partner at JUGO in the Netherlands. JUGO provide Business Intelligence consultancy and one focus area is data visualization applying the IBCS concept.

Dr. Mladen Meter

Dr. Mladen Meter is Managing Director of Business Effectiveness Ltd. (Poslovna učinkovitost d.o.o.) from Zagreb, Croatia. Business Effectiveness Ltd. provides business advisory and executive education services in controlling and finance area.

Esin Özkan

Trainer and Consultant in Data Analytics, Business Communication Standards (IBCS®) and Generative AI | Founder of 4e Academy

Edyta Szarska

Managing Partner at the IBCS Institute and the IBCS Certified Trainer.

Markus Wolff

Markus Wolff is Co-Founder and Managing Director of chartisan GmbH, a service provider for data visualization and reporting solutions.

Simone Verza

Simone Verza works as freelance Consultant and Trainer in Management Control and Reporting. He helps companies and Controllers to implement and optimize Planning, Control and Reporting systems.

PROGRAM

Introduction: The basics of business communication

  • Reports and dashboards: Analysis or message conveyance?
  • Decision support by Artificial Intelligence
  • Notation, composition and the SUCCESS formula of IBCS

Use a standard notation

  • ISO 24896 notation for business reporting

SIMPLIFY: Avoid clutter

  • Avoid noise and redundancies
  • Exercise: Simplify a table

UNIFY: Apply semantic notation

  • Unify terminology and visualization
  • Exercise: Create a chart in semantic notation

CHECK: Ensure visual integrity

  • Check proper scaling
  • Exercise: Scale an indexed line chart

Apply ISO 24896 notation for business reporting

  • Create Mindmaps for SIMPLIFY, UNIFY and CHECK
  • Group exercise: Create a chart in ISO 24896 notation
  • Why you need a notation manual and what it should include
  • Support from ISO 24896-compliant software and templates

Compose compelling reporting

  • Storytelling based on a consistent notation

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 type

CONDENSE: Increase information density

  • Add data, components, and visuals

Group exercise: Compose a compelling report

  • Mindmaps for SAY, STRUCTURE, EXPRESS, and CONDENSE
  • Case studies in financial and human resources reporting
  • Presentation of the results

Closing discussion and next steps

  • Company-wide improvement in composition and storytelling
  • Data Governance and Artificial Intelligence in reporting
  • Preview of IBCS® Certified Analyst exam

Breaks

With classroom courses there is lunch together at 12:30. Snacks and refreshments are served in coffee breaks at around 10:30 in the morning and 15:00 in the afternoon. After the training you are invited for an Apéro – a kind of small reception, at which snacks and refreshments are served.

In the case of online courses, the breaks are timed in the same way.

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