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.
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 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. |
Introduction to Intraneurship |
This course explores how existing organizations can begin the process of innovation and prepare for further stages of intraneurship. |
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. |
Winning with Sports Analytics: Performance and Game Strategic Analysis |
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. |
Continuously Open
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
Optimization with Sports Analytics: Advancing the Business Side |
This course provides knowledge and capabilities in macro-level quantitative management of professional sports organizations using analytics and artifcial intelligence (AI). Learning outcomes focus on how data, analytcs, and AI are leveraged to make optimized decisions in such areas as fan experience and engagement, facility and operations management, and brand management. |
Data Visualization and Business Intelligence using Python |
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 |
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. |
Testimonials
Entrepreneurship is my life! I was unsure that a PMBA was for me … until I took Dr. Jackson’s Strategic Innovation Course. Throughout the course, I learned skills that were directly applicable to my business in real-time. The final project, a strategic analysis of my business and industry, propelled me not only to cultivate an innovative way to shake up the pet industry, but gave me the confidence to pitch the idea to Mass Challenge Texas, a zero-equity startup accelerator program. From the moment I started the badge course, I was hooked. I knew I had to get my graduate degree. K-State PMBA courses are like rocket fuel for my career!
"While many of the topics were things I was aware of from being in the business world, I found the information great for the foundational/introductory badge. The piece I enjoyed most was the paper at the end. While I am not a fan of writing papers, I appreciated the challenge. We were asked to pick a company we knew a lot about and talk about strategic innovation in the company. I chose Commerce of course, but as I dug into our history, I learned a lot about strategic innovation inside Commerce I was never aware of.
