2 day Business Analysis Essentials- £549.00 + vat

Business analysis rationale
What is a business system
The place of business analysis
Business analysis versus systems analysis
Approaches to business analysis

Analysing and modelling the business activities
Modelling business activities
Five types of business activity
Modelling multiple perspectives
Decomposing activities
Validating the business activity model
End-to-end process maps

Strategic analysis in context
Understanding the organisation's strengths and weaknesses
External analysis - PESTLE
Internal analysis - Resource Audit
Building a comprehensive SWOT analysis

Creative problem solving
Barriers to creativity
Brainstorming
Stimulating creative thinking

A project approach to business analysis
Business analysis studies as projects
Terms of reference and project initiation
Assuring business benefit

Identifying potential solutions
Exploring the gap between the current and desired situation
Areas for business improvement (structure, processes, people)
Holistic approach to business solutions
Discussion of business change programmes

Understanding the situation/issues
Types of business 'problem'
Rich pictures
Defining the problem
Review of investigation techniques

Making the business case
Contents of a business case
Options
Costs and benefits
Impacts and risks
Payback and discounted cash flow
Presenting the business case

Business perspectives
Business perspective - introduction
Defining the perspective - CATWOE

Course summary
Review of concepts and approaches covered

Certification
The Business Analysis training course prepares participants to sit the one-hour, open book, examination leading to the certificate in Business Analysis Essentials offered by the Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB) and their accredited examination centres. We currently do not hold the accreditations. However we are working towards it.