Business Analysis Practice
Gear Up With All the Essential Skills of Strategic Business Analysis.
Giving You All the Essential Skills of Strategic business Analysis
You'll learn how to perform strategic analysis, stakeholder management, business activity modelling, gap analysis and identify feasible solutions towards making a business case.
On completing this course you will be able to:
This course will differentiate your career...
Great content, great training style – this course will enable you to differentiate yourself from other business analysts.
This Sounds Perfect for My Career
Why This Course?
Modern business analysts are increasingly required to extend themselves beyond the traditional role of developing and maintaining information systems.
Meaning today you need the capability to understand the business strategy, use proven techniques to analyse the business area, and identify changes to business processes needed to meet internal challenges and external opportunities.
And this course is designed to help you do exactly that.
By developing the skills needed to work with senior business and IT staff to analyse and model business activities, you will learn how to investigate business problems, and how to identify and recommend relevant creative solutions.
Is This Course for Me?
This course is for anyone and everyone who's seeking to improve their strategic business analysis knowledge, skills and abilities.
Business People
Change People
Analysis People
IT People
What Will I Learn?
To give you more of an idea of what you’ll learn and how the course will help you, here’s a quick guide to the three days.
Rationale for Business Analysis
Scope and definition of business analysis, development of the profession, business change life-cycle; roles in business analysis.
Strategic Analysis in Context
External environment analysis; internal environment analysis; SWOT analysis; critical success factors, key performance indicators and targets.
Project Approach to Business Analysis
Initiating a business analysis study, defining terms of reference; business and project objectives; deliverables from business analysis studies.
Understanding the Business Situation
Overview of investigation techniques, representing a holistic view of the business situation – rich pictures, mind maps, fishbone diagrams.
Analysing Business Perspectives
Identifying stakeholders, analysing stakeholders, stakeholder management strategies, defining business perspectives.
Modelling the Business Activities
Types of business activity; building a conceptual business activity model; consolidating perspectives and building consensus by resolving conflicts.
Identifying Potential Solutions
Exploring the gap between the current and desired situation, identifying areas for change, taking a holistic approach to business improvement.
Making the Business Case
Analysing feasibility, contents of a business case, options, costs and benefits, impacts and risks, life-cycle for the business case.
Meet your facilitator
Joe Newbert
For over 20 years, across 5 continents, and on 100+ projects Joe Newbert has helped individuals and organisations leverage the benefits of good practices in business analysis, solution delivery and change management.
A seasoned international conference speaker, Joe was instrumental in the development of he IIBA® Business Analysis Competency Model and actively serves as Non-Executive Director on the IIBA-SA Strategy Board.
What Our Customers Say
Over one hundred 5 star reviews!
All that I’ve learnt will ensure that my career stays relevant!
Everything covered in the course will help me guide my business stakeholders to take the right decisions, plus all that I’ve learnt will ensure that my career stays relevant!
I had lots of AHA! moments
The course facilitator was exceptional and I had lots of AHA! moments, especially the many strategic techniques which I will be using straight away when I get back to the office.
This course will differentiate your career...
Great content, great training style – this course will enable you to differentiate yourself from other business analysts.
How Much Is This?
Choose your own path, and save 20% with the professional bundle!
Basic
R6500
Just sit the exam
Essentials
R11950
Gear up with the core skills
Professional
R18450
R14760
Get international certification
Prices are in ZAR and exclude VAT payable at 15%.
Your Training Guarantee
We're so confident that you'll get everything you need to pass the exam during this training - that should you need another shot, we'll give you the opportunity to attend the training course free when booking a resit.
When Can I Start?
Choose a date and book your future.
| Start Date | Duration | Location | Select Option | hf:att:pa_location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Mar 2020 | 3 days | Cape Town | cape-town | |
| 20 Jul 2020 | 3 days | Johannesburg | johannesburg | |
| 19 Oct 2020 | 3 days | Cape Town | cape-town |
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Here's What Will Make Your Experience Different
You'll get more than just a certificate
The specific structure of this course prepares you successfully for the BCS exam while you develop key skills that you can apply straightaway in your role when you get back to the office.
Learn to put all the theory we teach you into practice with our qualified facilitators, who draw on their vast real-world experience to bring the course modules to life.
You'll receive personalised guidance
We do more than just show you information. We keep our classes small to allow time for group discussion and one-on-one interaction, giving you all the support you need.
Packed with plenty of of individual exercises and small group case study exercises with worked solutions, each day ensures you put into practice your new knowledge and learnings.
Plus You Can Turn up Empty Handed Because
You'll get everything that you need
Enjoy delicious lunches and refreshments all on us, whilst you share conversations with like-minded people over lunch in a relaxed environment to further develop your career.
Get your hands on our famous goody bag when you book your first course. Packed with business analysis tools – all tailored to support you during the course and when you get back to the office.
You'll learn with remarkable materials
Designed for use both during the course and in the workplace, our manuals cover everything you need - including case studies, revision notes, and sample exams.
Following the training you'll receive our ‘Key Learning’ emails and complimentary Alumni forums access to help you retain your learnings and pick-up on things you might have forgotten.
But Don't Just Take Our Word for It
Participants routinely commend the combination of rich content, skilled facilitation and practical insights
All that I’ve learnt will ensure that my career stays relevant!
Everything covered in the course will help me guide my business stakeholders to take the right decisions, plus all that I’ve learnt will ensure that my career stays relevant!
I will use all the models and techniques presented
Yes! This course has a great flow of a business analyst's world and gives so many practical skills that I can take back and use immediately. #ThinkBeforeDo
It will be easy to apply the learnings to my projects
The course put so many business analysis techniques into perspective, guiding practical knowledge of when to use what and it will be easy to apply the learnings to my projects.
I had lots of AHA! moments
The course facilitator was exceptional and I had lots of AHA! moments, especially the many strategic techniques which I will be using straight away when I get back to the office.
This course will differentiate your career...
Great content, great training style – this course will enable you to differentiate yourself from other business analysts.
Everything was spot on...
Everything in the course was spot on, and I don’t think you can do proper business analysis without these stand-out tools. Get into your stakeholder’s shoes!
You'll become better and smarter...
This course will help you to become better at understanding stakeholder needs and smarter at facilitating consensus, practically. Great value for money.
This course gave me incredible value
By providing new perspectives on tasks I already do and adding many new tools to my arsenal, that I can apply in my day to day activities, this course gave me incredible value.
This Sounds Perfect for My Career
I'm ready to gear up with all the essential skills of strategic business analysis.
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