(Online Delivery) Strategic Business Analysis

Description

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

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, and Strategy Analysis and the business analyst
  • Exercises: Describe Strategy Analysis, Identify Roles/Responsibilities, and Identify the business need

3 – Analyze the Current State environment

  • The importance of analyzing Current State
  • Understanding Business Architecture
  • Techniques for analyzing Current State

4 – Define the Future State

  • Future State description
  • Assessing impacts to business architecture
  • Determining Solution Scope
  • Discussions: Managing expectations with stakeholders, Capturing current capabilities, and How to approach acquiring capabilities

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

6 – Define the Change Strategy

  • Defining change strategy
  • Components of change strategy
  • Solution scope, enterprise readiness and change
  • Techniques for defining a change strategy

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 and anticipating questions for the business case review
  • Exercise: Create a business case

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