Course Description
Participants will learn skills required for improving the organization as a whole and supporting strategic initiatives and organizational change management.
Through an interactive delivery, dynamic discussions, examples, and hands-on exercises, participants build on concepts delivered in the previous two courses with a further look into how to support business goals and strategic initiatives, as well as mapping and documenting the way organizations go about their business, identifying improvement opportunities, and optimizing the overall performance of the organization.
The course supports the effort to identify viable solutions to problems or opportunities, evaluate and select the most optimal solution, and connect back to preparing and formulating a business case. In addition, participants explore the creation of a request for proposal, evaluate proposals based on defined decision criteria, assess organizational readiness, and apply data conversion strategy and mapping to existing data.
This course aligns with the Enterprise Analysis and Solution Assessment and Validation Knowledge Areas within the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge, (BABOK®).
At the end of the course, there will be a short quiz covering some of the key concepts learned. A passing grade of 60% is required to successfully complete this course.
Course Outline
- Day 1: Process mapping, modeling, and improvement / Articulate and map the current state
- Day 2: Identify needs for future state / Perform Gap Analysis to move from the current state to the future state
- Day 3: Explore and articulate change strategy / Building organizational agility
- Day 4: Solution evaluation
What You Will Learn
- Discuss strategic analysis tasks and techniques
- Analyze and document a business problem
- Develop and present a business case
- Apply problem analysis techniques to evaluate causes
- Isolate major causes of business problems and where to focus resources
- Define transitional requirements for successful solution implementation
- List types of gap analysis
- Conduct a SWOT analysis
- Appraise a benchmarking study
- List the key sections and steps in RFP development and selection
- Identify solution limitations
Notes
By enrolling in this course, you will be automatically enrolled in the Certificate in Business Analysis.
Prerequisites
You must have completed Business Analysis Essentials, or equivalent experience. You must have completed Business Analysis Essentials, or equivalent experience.Recommended For
- People who want to pursue a career in business analysis
- Technical team members and project managers
- Business analysts who want to enhance their business analysis skills
Testimonials
"Very knowledgeable and engaging instructor, very enthusiastic."
~ Sergey Averin
Enterprise & Strategic Analysis, November 2015
"The instructor was exceptionally knowledgeable."
~ Gary Carter,
Enterprise & Strategic Analysis, November 2014
"The instructor was very engaging, used real-world examples."
~ Matt Dickinson,
Enterprise & Strategic Analysis, November 2014
Applies Towards the Following Certificates
- Certificate in Business Analysis : Required
- Post-Graduate Diploma in Professional and Leadership Studies : Elective Program - Business Analysis