Business Essentials: Strategic Decisionmaking

Issued by NSITE

NSITE partners with Powersim Solutions to offer coursework and provide a simulated business environment for the development of essential business skills. By taking a comprehensive view of the organization's operations, earners understand how decisions and actions impact the business as a whole and work effectively and collaboratively as team members. Earners have successfully developed and executed a business strategy, analyzed markets, competitors, customers, and performance.

Type Validation
Level Foundational
Time Weeks
Cost Paid

Additional Details

Skills

Balance Sheet
Business Systems Thinking
Cash Flows
Customer Loyalty
Customer Service
Income Statement
Market Analysis
Profitability Management
Strategic Decision-Making
Teamwork

Earning Criteria

Successful completion of two online courses - Finance and Budgeting Essentials and Improving Decision Making - that require online coursework, reading, watching videos, and taking a test.
Attended eight scheduled conference calls lasting approximately one hour. Calls included discussions of results and team decision-making activities. Facilitators also led discussions on selected topics pertaining to marketing, financial analysis, team decision-making, and leadership.
Pass assessment indicating successful completion of course work and achievement of learning outcomes. Assessment consists of a written test, successful implementation of strategy, presentations of simulation strategy, simulation performance outcomes, and team decision-making processes.

Standards

NSITE Mission

NSITE provides a customized Business Essentials Program as part of our Business Leaders Program (BLP) for individuals who are blind and low-vision to deepen their understanding of business processes and prepare them for career advancement. NSITE partners with Powersim Solutions for the business simulation component of the program.