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1
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What are the three different levels of decision making?

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Strategic
Tactical
Operational

2
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What is strategic decision making?

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Long term, complex decisions

Director and Senior Management

3
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What is tactical decision making?

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Medium Term

Strategic plan into action

4
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What is operational decision making?

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Day to day decisions

Junior levels of management

5
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What are the benefits of enhanced information?

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Greater customer insight
Potential for new sources of competitive advantage
New business models and revenue streams
Early warning of problems
Customised products for customer needs
6
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What is marketing?

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Management process that identifies, anticipates and supplies customer needs efficiently and profitability.

7
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How can technology help marketing?

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Pricing
Targeting
Products
Segmentation
Promotions 
Customer Relationship Management
8
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How can technology help operations?

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Cost saving
Forecasting
Improved Service
Supply Chain
Preventative Maintenance
9
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What are digital assets?

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Assets help by business in digital form that do not have physical substance

10
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What does DAM stand for?

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Digital Management System

11
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What are the features of a DAM system?

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Database specifically designed to manage digital assets
Central location for digital asset storage and access
Allows access only to those authorised

12
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What are the benefits of a DAM system?

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Strengthen relationship across teams
Improve services to customers
Provides data on usage
Cost and space saving

13
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What CGMA skills are needed by finance professionals?

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Technical
Business
People
Leadership
Digital
14
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What are the three stages in transferring data?

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Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL)

15
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What is extraction?

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Process of harvesting data from source databases and locations

16
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What is transformation?

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Data will be transformed into a format suitable for destination database

17
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What is loading?

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Newly cleaned and prepared data being uploaded to destination database ready for use

18
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What is data profiling?

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Before extraction

Data analysed to understand content, format and structure

19
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What is a data warehouse?

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Store for data that’s been loaded in the ETL process

20
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What is Business Intelligence (BI)?

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Technology driven process of analysing business data to create insightful and actionable information to help improve operations or products of a business

21
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What is a data model?

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Considers data of an organisation in a systematic way that allows it to be stored and retrieved in an efficient and effective way

22
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What are the advantages of data modelling?

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Foundation for handling data
Enforces business rules
Consistency
Quality of data enhanced

23
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What are the three levels of data modelling?

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Conceptual
Logical
Physical

24
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What is the conceptual level of data modelling?

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Considering Business data and its requirements

25
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What is the logical level of data modelling?

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Develop technical map of rules and data structures

26
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What is the physical level of data modelling?

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How defined system will be implemented using a database modelling system (DBMS)

27
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What does DBMS stand for?

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Database modelling system

28
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What is data manipulation?

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Process of changing data to make it easier to read

29
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What is data strategy?

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Coherent approach for organising, governing, analysing and deploying an organisations information assets.

30
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What are data scientists?

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Individuals with ability to extract meaning from and interpret data, which requires tools and methods from stats and machine learning.