BCS Certificate in Business Analysis Practice
Course
In London
Description
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Type
Intensive seminar
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Location
London
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Class hours
20h
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Duration
3 Days
The BCS Certificate in Business Analysis Practice provides delegates with the knowledge and professional skills and toolset to become effective business analysts.
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- Q20360 BCS Certificate in Business Analysis Practice.pdf
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About this course
The BCS Certificate in Business Analysis Practice course covers strategic thinking, perspective based analysis, stakeholder management, SWOT analysis, and gap analysis. The course focuses on A) developing a business strategy and B) the exploration of a business issue – whether that be an opportunity or problem.
The certificate is relevant to anyone requiring a general understanding or introduction to Business Analysis, including business analysts, business managers and their staff, business change managers and project managers.
None.
Certificate.
SQS has a experienced team of trainers, that are consultants and are actually working on this field currently.
After requesting information, you will be either emailed the relevant information or called to discussed your requirements in detail.
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Subjects
- Business Analysis
- Testing
- Strategic Analysis
- Management
- Resource Audit MOST
- PESTLE
- Five Forces
- Stakeholder Management
- CATWOE
- Risk Derivatives
Course programme
Strategic analysis in context
- Understanding the organisation’s strengths and weaknesses
- External analysis – PESTLE, Five Forces
- Internal analysis – Resource Audit MOST
- Building a comprehensive SWOT analysis
- Measuring performance – the Balanced Business Scorecard
- Critical success factors and key performance indicators
A Project Approach to Business Analysis
- Business analysis studies as projects
- Terms of reference and project initiation
- Assuring business benefit
Understanding the situation/issues
- Types of business ‘problem’
- Rich pictures and mind maps
- Defining the problem
- Review of investigation techniques
- Business perspectives
- Analysing stakeholders
- Stakeholder management strategies
- Business perspectives – introduction
- Defining the perspective – CATWOE
Analysing and modelling the business activities
- Modelling business activities
- Five types of business activity
- Consolidating perspectives and business activity models
- Identifying potential solutions
- End-to-end process models
- Exploring the gap between the current and desired situation
- Areas for business improvement (organisation context, processes, people)
- Holistic approach to business solutions
Making the business case
- Contents of a business case
- Options
- Costs and benefits
- Impacts and risks
- Presenting the business case
- Benefits realisation and management
Additional information
BCS Certificate in Business Analysis Practice