Course Overview:
Learn enterprise analysis skills and support your enterprise solutions with effective consulting and leadership. Learn how to move enterprise projects and strategies forward from both a consulting and Enterprise Analysis perspective. Use Enterprise Analysis techniques to identify profitable enterprise opportunities.
Course Description:
Audience profile
Executives, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Business and IT stakeholders working with business analysts. This course is aimed for experienced practitioners who desire a clear understanding of Strategic Business Analysis, who would like to understand what comprises this work, and the objectives for performing it. It is recommended that participants complete the BA01 – Business Analysis Essentials course prior to enrolling or have equivalent experience.
At course completion
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Learn how to see the “big picture” and understand the internal/external characteristics of your enterprise before determining solutions
- Understand what comprises strategy analysis and when and how it is performed
- Recognize how risks influence the viability of solution options
- Identify the benefits for developing a thorough change strategy
- Discuss the purpose and importance of business case development and how to leverage a business case to communicate the viability for pursuing a change to your decision makers
- Prepare a business case employing qualitative and quantitative analysis methods
Course Outline
Section 1: Foundational Concepts
- Components of business analysis
- Business analysis competencies
- IIBA/PMI and the goals of a professional association
- Purpose for having a BA standard
- Exercise: Review the case study
Section 2: Introduction to Strategy Analysis
- Definition and purpose of Strategy Analysis
- The timing of Strategy Analysis
- Identifying stakeholders and the business need
- Discussions:
- Strategy analysis in your organization
- When business needs are not clearly defined
- Strategy Analysis and the business analyst
- Exercises:
- Describe Strategy Analysis
- Identify Roles/Responsibilities
- Identify the business need
Section 3: Analyze the Current State environment
- The importance of analyzing Current State
- Understanding Business Architecture
- Techniques for analyzing Current State
Section 4: Define the Future State
- Future State description
- Assessing impacts to business architecture
- Determining Solution Scope
- Discussions:
- Managing expectations with stakeholders
- Capturing current capabilities
- How to approach acquiring capabilities
Section 5: Assess Risks
- Identifying risks
- Risk Tolerance/Categories/risk responses
- The concept of positive risk
- Techniques for identifying risks
- Discussions:
- Who is responsible for identifying risks?
- Who captures positive risks today?
- Exercise: Identify Risks
Section 6: Define the Change Strategy
- Defining change strategy
- Components of change strategy
- Solution scope, enterprise readiness and change
- Techniques for defining a change strategy
Section 7: Developing a Business Case
- The purpose of a business case
- Business case components
- Building a convincing business case
- Determining the Recommended Solution
- Packaging the business case
- Reviewing the business case with stakeholders
- Discussions:
- Evaluating project proposals
- Anticipating questions for the business case review
- Exercise: Create a business case
Section 8: Additional resources
- Helpful links for obtaining additional business analysis information
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