After doing these courses, I feel confident creating professional visualizations and dashboards
Shoebur RahmanProcurement Specialist, Giz Bangladesh
Course Description
Discover how to leverage AI in your consulting work to deliver more impactful work faster! In this course, you'll learn how to augment and automate some of the core tasks in the consultancy workflow: from research and analysis to client delivery. Learn to leverage AI to synthesize information across various sources like documents and images, extract insights by performing calculations and generating summary plots, and build engaging visualizations for the stakeholders that you'll be presenting to. Along the way, you'll learn how to mitigate the risks of using AI for consultancy, such as hallucinations in citations and key information. Supercharge your consultancy workflows today!
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- Structure effective prompts using the GSCE framework to guide Copilot toward precise, actionable research and analysis.
- Synthesize insights from multiple sources (web, PDFs, visuals) with Copilot and turn them into clear, client-ready narratives using SCR and Pyramid Principle.
- Extract insights from structured and unstructured data with Copilot, spot trends and sentiment, and surface data quality and bias before drawing conclusions.
- Design data visualizations and board-ready charts through iterative prompting so analysis supports clear, decision-oriented storytelling.
- Translate analysis into recommendations by using Copilot to generate and test hypotheses, group strategic levers, and run what-if scenarios for leadership decisions.
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course
Curriculum
Course outline
1
Augmenting Research and Synthesis with AI
Kick off your AI-powered consulting journey with Microsoft Copilot. Master the GSCE prompting framework to craft effective prompts, synthesize insights from web pages, PDFs, and infographics, and transform raw research into polished narratives using the SCR and Pyramid Principle frameworks.
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Democratizing and Accelerating Data Analysis with AI
Turn raw data into actionable insights without writing a single line of code. Analyze Excel datasets for performance trends, extract sentiment from customer reviews, build compelling visualizations, and generate strategic recommendations and hypotheses—all through conversational AI prompts.
3
Augmenting Client Engagements with AI
Bring your analysis to life with client-ready deliverables. Craft investment narratives using the SCQA framework, adapt messaging for executive versus technical audiences, create board-ready visualizations, and tie it all together with an end-to-end churn analysis case study.
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