Data & Insights For Business Decisions

Enable your team to harness the power of data.
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Data & Insights For Business Decisions

Enable your team to harness the power of data.
Part of our
courses.

Key info

Level 3 Apprenticeship
Data Technician
Fully funded by the Levy.

Duration

13 month delivery

Entry requirements

  • Right to work in the UK
  • Lived in the UK or EEA continuously for the past 3 years
  • Not previously studied the course content
  • Not undertaking any other qualification during apprenticeship
  • Able to apply learning to role
Fully-funded
Eligible for full Levy funding
Price £13000. Read our UK Apprenticeship Levy FAQ.

Course overview

This programme equips your employees with the technical and analytical skills needed to turn data into actionable insights, while also building communication confidence through storytelling and presenting findings.
Data & Insights For Business Decisions

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Skills gained

Excel
PowerBI
Tableau
Data analysis
Visualisation and reporting
Automation processes
Data-driven decision making

Business outcomes

Enhanced decision-making

Empower your team to make data-led decisions with confidence.

Improved efficiency

Teams learn how to optimise processes using data, boosting overall organisational productivity.

Accelerated growth

Equip your workforce to spearhead data-driven strategies, driving sustainable business growth.

Curriculum

Building data essentials

Module 1

Business and data

  • Data fundamentals
  • Scoping data projects
  • Spreadsheet essentials

Module 2

Effective data management & preparation

  • Secure & ethical data management
  • Preparing data in spreadsheets
  • Implementing workflows in BI

Module 3

Transforming data into actionable insights

  • Applying problem solving frameworks
  • Data manipulation with functions & mapping

Impactful data analysis

Module 4

Advanced data analysis and interpretation

  • Statistical analysis
  • Mitigating bias
  • Critical thinking

Module 5

Impactful data visualisation

  • Designing & interpreting
  • Visualisations with trend analysis & filtering
  • Chart types & formatting

Module 6

Data analytics hackathon

  • Apply skills learned thus far in a competitive, team-based hackathon

Amplifying business value

Module 7

Automated data solutions

  • Understanding automation & tools
  • Macros & self-updating features

Module 8

Advanced BI dashboards

  • Inclusive & accessible design
  • Advanced filtering
  • Navigation & parameters

Module 9

Strategic data journalism

  • Stakeholder analysis design
  • Data-driven storytelling
  • BI for interactivity

Leading data transformation

Module 10

Data to business value hackathon

  • Apply skills learned thus far in a competitive, team-based hackathon

Module 11

Change agent incubator

  • Becoming a data change agent
  • Developing strategic influence
  • Change management frameworks

Module 12

Driving the future of data

  • Transforming data workflows & practices
  • Navigating data & AI innovation
  • Exploring future focused analysis in BI

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Weekly delivery model

Structured learning

~ 3-4 hours

40%

Asynchronous learning

Online, self-paced content that sets the foundation of skills for the module

Live workshops

Instructor-led, interactive workshops that dives deeper and reinforces the asynchronous content

Group coaching

Structured coach & peer support on project deliverables

Coach support

Includes tutoring, progress reviews, and other individual/group support

Applying learning in role

~4-5 hours

60%

Project & applied learning

Structured and unstructured application of learning to apprentices’ roles

Approx

7-8

hours per week

Why our approach works

Measurable Impact

Track quantifiable return on learning investment through business efficiencies, productivity and cost-savings.

Applied learning

We deliver project-based learning in a real-world context, personalised to each learner, to drive deep skill retention.

Guided by experts

Learners receive 1-to-1 coaching from industry experts, regular group coaching and community collaboration.

Transform careers

Everyone in your team has future-focused potential and deserves equitable access to economic opportunity.

Data really helped us bring a missing piece of the puzzle into a customer partnership and grow that investment 56% year-over-year, as we were activating different parts of what we do to better serve their needs.

Rachelle Rhinehart
Strategic Account Director at WGSN
Read the case study

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