Strategic Business Analysis

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Course Overview

Strategic Business Analysis Course

Strategy analysis provides the focus upon which all other business analyst efforts must align. Shortcutting strategy analysis often results in delivering solutions that are misaligned with the organization’s strategy and the expectations and needs of the business and stakeholders. This course will help you understand the criticality of defining the business need correctly and pursuing a thorough analysis of the internal and external environments of the enterprise before assisting the organization in selecting the best solution.

This course will earn you 14 PDUs | 14 CDUs

Strategic Business Analysis Course Overview

Learning Objectives

  • Understand what comprises strategy analysis and when and how it is performed
  • Identify the “big picture” and improve your strategic thinking skills
  • Increase project success by better defining the business need
  • Learn how to analyze the current state and define future state
  • Develop and assess alternative approaches to the change and propose the “best” recommended solution
  • Determine how to evaluate a solution once it is implemented to ensure it meets its expected value

COURSE AGENDA

Training Outline

Participants will learn how to define the business need, analyze the current state, define the future state, and make solution recommendations to move to the future state. They will also learn how to improve their strategic thinking skills and the key activities to be performed in creating a change strategy.

Process Leadership

Business Analysis

  • Strategy analysis defined
  • Strategy analysis tasks
  • Strategy analysis and the project life cycle
  • Key competencies needed for strategy analysis

  • Thinking – an introduction
  • Strategic thinking skills
  • How to become a strategic thinker
  • Strategic thinking tools and techniques

  • Current state analysis overview
  • Determine the business need
  • Identify stakeholders
  • Conduct a current state analysis

  • Future state overview
  • Define business goals and objectives
  • Determine solution scope
  • Identify constraints
  • Determine potential solution value
  • Define the future state

  • Risk analysis and management process
  • Organizational risk tolerance levels
  • Risk response options
  • Identify risks and create a risk register

  • Components of a change strategy
  • Conduct a gap analysis
  • Assess enterprise readiness
  • Define a change strategy
  • Determine a transition approach

  • Business case overview
  • Common mistakes in building a business case
  • Present the business case
  • Develop a mini business case

  • Solution performance evaluation process
  • Measure solution performance
  • Define & analyze solution performance measures
  • Assess solution and enterprise limitations
  • Recommend actions to increase solution value

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