Organisations use business analytics to understand and solve business problems, increase efficiency, leverage productivity, and ultimately enhance the business performance of organisations. This course  provides an introduction to a practical framework for data collection, aggregation, processing, and modelling to transform data into business insights. You will gain knowledge of key business analytics methods and approaches to improve decision-making in contemporary business environments across all business disciplines

In this course, you will develop a better understanding of analytics technology – its capabilities, its limits and its pitfalls – and learn how to analyse vast amounts of data to make better organisational decisions and forecasts. This course has been developed so you can develop and understanding of  how to take abstract business issues and turn them into successful analytical solutions.

This course introduces you to the notion of 'deterrence' as it relates the broad range of threats from cyber through to nuclear threats. In its simplest form deterrence is simply the broad range of actions (economic, political, or militarily) that can be used to deter a hostile action or event through instilling doubt or fear of the consequences. This course will examine these range of possible actions that can be employed in deterring threats.

This is a foundation level course in the basics of business administration functions are integrated across key areas, such as accounting, finance, human resources, law and marketing. You will develop an understanding of the administration skills required to undertake common business-related tasks, like producing business documents, organising schedules, and creating and using databases. This course sets the foundation for preparing the participant for more complex tasks, such as planning and implementing administrative systems, managing payroll, recruitment and staff performance and undertaking project work.

The course gives an overview of how business intelligence technologies can support decision making across any number of business sectors. These technologies have had a profound impact on corporate strategy, performance, and competitiveness and broadly encompass decision support systems, business intelligence systems, and visual analytics.

This course introduces Knowledge management as an innovative process that needs to be closely aligned to organisation goals. It delivers a sound understanding of the various building blocks of knowledge management such as knowledge identification, development, preservation, representation and distribution and sharing. It provides the basic knowledge and skills to understand the complex issues of knowledge management that are essential in the modern workplace.

Cognitive learning refers to the mental processes of acquiring knowledge and developing an understanding via thought and experience. This course will explore how our brains respond during a learning process and what activities can be used to enhance comprehension, memory, and application, and make learning experiences more purposeful.

The Introduction to Human Resources course will ensure you have the skills required to manage people and culture in a contemporary and responsive way that maximises contributions your people make every day at work. It provides an understanding of the ways to manage the employee lifecycle and focuses on the critical and most time effective aspects of people management at a time when leaders are juggling multiple complex responsibilities in the business.

This course will explore the principles and characteristics necessary for logistic support to enable successful Army (Land) operations. It is aimed at participants seeking to establish a baseline knowledge and understanding for the logistical support environment that underpins all training and operational activities by the Australian Army.  This course will also examine the broader military environment within Australia (Maritime and Aerospace) as well as internationally to provide context, as well as to develop an understanding of the challenges to logistical support in the global security environment that forces logistics to constantly adapt and evolve.

Information warfare (IW) is a concept involving the battlespace use and management of information and communication technology (ICT) in pursuit of a competitive advantage over an opponent. This course   will introduce you to Information Warfare across the human, information and physical dimensions including when potential adversaries attempt to damage a nations critical infrastructure systems using IW techniques. It will provide you with an understanding of basic strategic IW concepts and provide insights about their national security implication.