Business Intelligence Capstone (BIN680-O)
Reflecting back on my Mastery journey timeline I wrote for my FINAL class; Business Intelligence Capstone is that “This course will allow me to present the skills I have learned on my Mastery journey. This course is a wrap-up of all skills, techniques, concepts, and tools learned, and allows for a means for me to demonstrate this learned knowledge as I continue on my Master journey”. I also established three goals that I planned to achieve during this course and a strategy for each goal to help me achieve each goal.
My first goal was to learn how to present the skills I have learned from previous classes and the strategy I chose to help me achieve this goal was to watch video from Lynda.com: Data Visualization: Best Practices.
My second goal was to review all the skills, techniques, concepts, and tools I have learned in the past 11 months, and the strategy I chose to help me achieve this goal was to watch video from Lynda.com: Learning Infographic Design.
My third goal was to learn how to demonstrate learned skills, techniques, concepts, and tools in the real world, and the strategy I chose to help me achieve this goal was to read the article Social Media and Corporate Agility, available on EBSCOhost.
A reflection on the actual course content matched my expectations outlined in the mastery Timeline and has been very beneficial and informative. The Business Intelligence Master of Science Program met my Mastery Journal Timeline expectations and goals. From the program’s content I learned:
Identified a position in the BI industry that you would like to pursue
Prepared a Skills Gap Inventory and Action Plan to help you identify skills you need to acquire to be successful in that position
Engaged meaningfully with other Business Intelligence professionals (your classmates) by fostering mutually reinforcing conversations in response to their plans for overcoming their Hard Skills Gap
Documented your analysis of your Client Company’s problems or opportunities
Documented your situational analysis for your Client Company and its industry
Communicated your proposed data-informed solution
Described in detail your data collection plan design
Presented your anticipated results and conclusions
Completed your Relationship Building Plan
Understood the four key business relationships
Explored how to build relationships in person and virtually
Learned how to support your manager's objectives
Understood how to articulate your needs to your manager
Understood how to communicate with difficult team members
Explored how to resolve cross-department conflict
Identified your mentors and sponsors
Learned how to make first impressions with executives
Presented your analysis of your Capstone Client Company’s problems or opportunities
Summarized the situational analysis for your Capstone Industry and Client Company
Communicated your proposed data-informed solution
Described your data collection plan design
Summarized your anticipated results and conclusions
Completed your Personal Branding Brainstorm
Understood the basics of defining and growing your personal brand
Explored the steps necessary to build an online identity
Explored how and why to develop authority
Recognized the importance of creating content and understand how to do so
Learned how to establish your personal online style, maintain consistency, and more
Completed your Job-Hunting Online Plan of Action
Learned how to make a plan for job hunting
Understood the basics of using popular job sites such as Monster, Simply Hired, and Indeed
Learned how to use Twitter to search for jobs
Explored how to scan effectively the companies you want to work for
Recognized the best way to approach recruiters
I will apply what I learned as I transition into my role as a practitioner in the BI industry and pursue my professional career upon graduation by applying these concepts in my professional career in the military and eventually when I retire, to whatever future career I may have outside of the military.
Very Respectfully,
Christina Roberts
Full Sail University. (2019). Full Sail University Business Intelligence Master’s Course Schedule. Retrieved April 29, 2019, from Full Sail University: https://www.fullsail.edu/degrees/business-intelligence-master/courses
Roberts, C. (2019). Mastery Journal. Retrieved April 29, 2019, from Tumblr: https://chri5tin4r0b3rt5.tumblr.com
The Best Schools. (January 28, 2019). The 10 Best Online Master’s in Business Intelligence Programs [Digital Image]. Retrieved April 29, 2019, from https://thebestschools.org/rankings/best-online-masters-business-intelligence/
