These articles cover business analysis practices, approaches, techniques, management, and tools.


 


 

Business agility Business agility is the ability to rapidly but safely change in response to or in anticipation of changes in the external environment. Potential drivers for change are summarised in the acronym, ‘PESTLE’. Business agility is becoming increasingly …

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Introduction. This video introduces the basics of data modelling. Data modelling is a key skill of a business analyst and is fundamental to creating a business level data architecture. Duration: 8 minutes. See also, 'Summary of the video content', below. Data modelling basics - …

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Levels of business analysis This article considers 3 levels of business analysis. The functions at each level are typically performed by performed different roles taken by business analysts. The sort of functions undertaken at each level of business analysis are shown …

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A framework for improvement A Business Analysis Centre of Excellence (BACoE)  is a framework that provides structure, context and content for improvement initiatives in business analysis and its relationship to other development centres. A business analysis centre of …

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representation of a process flow in the context of the forces coming from the external environment.

As Sharp and McDermot demonstrated in ‘Workflow Modelling’, the question, 'What is a business process?' is surprisingly difficult to answer. As a business analyst, it's definitely something you should know about. The above model, based on a model from Rummler Brache, …

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