The Vice President at a commercial goods manufacturing company wants to create annual objectives for the team based on the company’s latest strategic goals. The Vice President has reached out to the business analytics team for data analysis that will help build SMART objectives. What type of analytics will help with creating these objectives?

A financial software company has growth and expansion as one of their top strategic priorities for the year. The senior executive team would like to assess their sales performance over the last 3 years to help set sales objectives. In discussion with the business analytics manager, for a comprehensive sales report, the sales lead recommends looking into the number of contracts signed over the past 3 years and the dollar value for the signed contracts. Which other question is important to consider when evaluating sales performance?

There were 7 students enrolled in the Introduction to Artificial Intelligence course. The scores from the final exam were as follows: 64, 70. 80, 80, 90, 98, 100 What is the mean and median for the outlined scores?

A consumer products company gained popularity with increased growth and brand recognition with one of its products. Although they have a loyal customer base and past year’s performance results have shown steady growth, the Senior Leadership team wants to keep product leadership as their primary strategic priority.What would be their primary goal?

A Human Resource manager recently learned that their competitor reduced employee attrition rates by 20% after implementing personality tests as part of their screening process. Intrigued by the idea, the manager suggests collecting data on personality tests and attrition rates over the next year. The data from this year is then analyzed to explore possible relationships. What type of analytics has the team been asked to perform?