Business Analysis Essentials

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Datrix Training has been delivering courses to businesses since 2001 and has one of the most extensive and reliable training schedules in the UK. 

The price of this course includes instruction, manuals, learning materials, lunches and refreshments. It does not include examination fee. The examination price is £100 + VAT.

Course Outline

Overview
Business systems are a complex combination of people, processes and IT systems.  Business analysts must have a broad range of skills, and access to a set techniques, that will allow them to analyse these systems and identify issues and improvements.  

Further, analysts must identify solutions that integrate with business systems and align with the organisation’s strategic needs.

This course provides essential skills for business analysts and is the perfect starting point for those wishing to attain the ISEB diploma in business analysis.

The course is based on the syllabus for the ISEB Certificate in Business Analysis Essentials and covers two main areas:

• Strategic analysis: The course introduces simple techniques for the development and analysis of a business strategy.  The techniques will allow the business analyst to understand the strategic context of a business analysis study.
• Exploration of a business issue:  The course describes an approach to analysing a business issue from various stakeholder perspectives, along with the techniques needed to create a logical model from which improvements can be identified.

The course also describes of how the analyst can document and present their findings and recommendations in a business case.
The emphasis of the course is on the application of techniques.  The course includes assignments based on a case study and thus provides the opportunity to practise the techniques.
There are no prerequisites for this course.

Content
• An overview of the business analysis role and it’s context in a lifecycle for business change.  The purpose of analysing and modelling business systems.
• How a business strategy is developed and the use of techniques for analysing and developing a strategy.  Techniques include; internal environment analysis, external environment analysis and SWOT analysis.  Performance management techniques including critical success factors, key performance indicators and balanced business scorecards.
• The relationship between projects and business analysis.  The need for, and the content of, a Terms of Reference (TOR) document.  Business and project objectives.  Deliverables from business analysis studies.
• An approach to investigating a business situation including identifying and analysing stakeholders.  An overview of investigative techniques.
• How to identify and define business perspectives.  The use of business activity models to create a logical model of a business system.  Analysis of the model to uncover events and rules.
• How to identify potential solutions through the use of gap analysis.  Identifying changes required by the solutions including changes to processes, people and organisation.  Identifying opportunities for IT support.
• Creation and presentation of a business  case.  Cost benefit analysis and the identification of impacts and risks.
• Accepting the business case.  The business analyst’s involvement in user acceptance, managing the implementation of change and realising the business benefits.

Exam
Delegates will have the opportunity to sit the exam on the final day of the course. Please ask your Datrix Training Account Manager for details.

For the very best and latest prices & availability on this course, please call our Sales Advisers on 0800 781 0626 or contact us with a Basket Enquiry (Add to Basket and then Request Call Back: No Obligation). Our Sales Advisers have access to offers and promotions not shown on the website.

Datrix Training has been delivering courses to businesses since 2001 and has one of the most extensive and reliable training schedules in the UK.