This course is designed to help students develop the business acumen required of  successful leaders across organizational settings. For this course, business acumen  has two critical components. First is the strategic insight needed to understand what  the organization is trying to accomplish and one’s role in helping it achieve those  objectives. Second is a facility with the financial and non-financial data needed to  monitor and evaluate progress toward those goals. Key outcomes are developing the  business acumen needed to assess and design organizational strategies; create a  budget for an organizational initiative or department; and construct meaningful  metrics and use them to evaluate organizational progress.