Overview

Analysing a business involves specialist knowledge, proficiency as well as the ability to plan, analyse, manage and communicate the requirements of the business in question before creating a business information structure.

The delegate will ascertain the knowledge to execute the latest cutting-edge methodologies in business for analysing firms, identifying the organisations requirements, planning, monitoring business processes as well as communicating your solutions in an effective and justified manner

Coverage

• The most cutting-edge business analysis methods at the forefront of the financial analysis industry are taught to you in a series of short burst concentrated presentations followed by exercises and Q&A.
• The delegate will apply the methodologies learned to case studies and real world examples.
• To increase learning potential the program may also involve individual work, group work, lecturer interaction and consistent constructive criticism.

Objectives

• Recognize the requirements of a Business Analyst
• Plan a Business Analysis
• Identify the needs of the business
• Identify the requirements of the stakeholder
• Define a solution and communicate it to the business
• Business dimension modelling

How This Helps Your Organization?

• Improve employees knowledge within intra-business analytics
• Improves relationship between IT and business department of your organisation.
• Reduction in risk associated with developing IT infrastructure
• Experience a reduction in business process cost and delay
• Delegates display a strong understanding of the requirements of the stakeholder

How This Helps You Personally?

• Possess the ability to identify the critical needs of a business at all levels
• Develop effective solutions to proposed problems within a business
• Identify a firms essential requirements effectively and address them to business management confidently and concisely

Course Structure

Introduction to Business Analysis

• The requirements of the Business Analyst
• How to select the appropriate BA technique
• Introduction to the Business Solutions Life Cycle (BSLC)
• Enterprise Analysis
• Creating a Business Analytics findings case
• Create a solution

Requirements of the Analysis Process

• Infrastructure framework
• Identifying stakeholder goals and objectives
• Financial Modelling methodology
• The data requirements of Financial Modelling
• Introduction to Business Process Modelling

Identify Stakeholder requirements

• How to carry out an interview
• Business process observation
• Creating, implementing and analysing questionnaires
• Document analysis

Managing stakeholder requirements

• Handling challenging questions and criticism
• Managing requirements and solutions

Solutions

• Creating an effective solution to proposed requirements and problems
• Identify gaps within the business processes
• Implementing workarounds or temporary ‘quick fix’
• Solution testing
• Solution performance analysis