Microcredentials

What are Microcredentials?

Microcredentials are flexible, affordable, and short units of learning in the College of Business. They serve as an acknowledgement of targeted, specialized outcomes, skills, or experiences for learners at all career stages, from students to seasoned professionals.

Instructors of these classes are full-time K-State faculty and are available to assist students.

Contact cbabadges@ksu.edu with any questions.

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College of Business Microcredentials

August 19, 2024 - October 11, 2024
Introduction to Strategic Innovation
Explore the importance of innovation for a firm's competitive success and the advancement of society in general, introduce some of the risks and costs of innovation, and look at why firms are much more likely to be successful if they have a well-crafted strategy for innovation.
Introduction to Intrapreneurship
This course explores how existing organizations can begin the process of innovation and prepare for further stages of intrapreneurship.
An Operating Return Approach to Creating Value
This course focuses on the underlying factors that drive business value. Through increased efficiency and productivity, managers and business owners can improve the value drivers and increase the value of their business.

 

October 14, 2024 - December 13, 2024
Inclusive Management in Business: Fostering belonging and understanding for diverse workplace experiences
This course will help you understand workplace diversity and lead more inclusively. You'll appreciate your team, clients, and direct reports more deeply and experience higher performance. You'll have the skills to support and challenge those you lead so they feel empowered to do their best work.
An Operating Return Approach to Creating Value: Business Valuation
This course builds on Financial Statement Analysis: an Operating Return Approach by focusing on modelling the value drivers of a business so that managers and business owners can obtain the market value of their business.
SQL for Data Analytics
This course provides a foundational understanding of data management using SQL. Students will learn principles and techniques for interacting with relational databases by building and executing SQL queries for data analytics purposes.
Market Segmentation and Postioning
This course explores how to gain a competitive advantage on the basis of different customer demands so that marketers can provide effective and efficient marketing strategies and decision making.
Fundamentals of Data Analytics in Business (using Python)
This course develops an individual's skills in data analytics, including data collection from websites and databases, data wrangling & ETL (extract-transform-load), visualization, and business intelligence.
Management Analytics: Research Methods in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
This course provides applied knowledge of research methods that generate data in a business context based on systematic observations. Learning outcomes focus on how to formulate business problems, select appropriate data collection methods, and prepare data for analysis.

 

Continuously Open
Introduction to Accounting Analytics
This course improves data literacy, provides a foundational understanding of how to address accounting-related questions using data analytics, and helps individuals understand where to begin incorporating data analytics in accounting.
Fundamentals of Cloud Computing for Business
This course delves into the realm of cloud-based systems, shedding light on the transformative impact these technologies have on organizational computing infrastructure. The course provides valuable insights into critical considerations such as service level agreements, elasticitiy, security, audits, and practical implementation issues.
Using Financial Data to Transform Your Small Business
This course prepares non-accountants, small business owners, and future business owners with the tools necessary to make sound financial decisions.

 

Spring 2025
Winning with Sports Analytics: Performance and Game Strategic Analysis

1/21/2025 - 3/14/20025

This course provides knowledge and capabilities in micro-level quantitative management of professional sports organizations using analytics and artificial intelligence (AI). Learning outcomes focus on measurement and managerial assessment of athletic and team performance, and strategic and tactical analyses in professional sports.
Data Visualization and Business Intelligence using Python

3/24/2025 - 5/16/2025

This course is specifically designed for professionals who want to build their data skills and learn how to develop insights from data using visualization and business intelligence. This is the second course in the DA Digital Badge series.
NoSQL for Data Analtyics

3/24/2025 - 5/16/2025

This course builds on SQL for Data Analytics by focusing on alternative modern database designs. Students will be familiarized with data structures and queries in NoSQL databases, including document-based, key-value stores, column-family, and graph-based databases.

 

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