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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The facilitator is a true pro. His instruction was phenomenal. He knows the content, uses it in his own life, and is extremely positive and motivating.

5.0

This has been the best course yet! It has helped me with a personal discovery about how I do things and communicate with others, and how I can evolve.

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5.0

The facilitator is a true pro. His instruction was phenomenal. He knows the content, uses it in his own life, and is extremely positive and motivating.

5.0

This has been the best course yet! It has helped me with a personal discovery about how I do things and communicate with others, and how I can evolve.

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