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BCS Foundation Certificate (3)Strategy Analysis (7.5%) (3.5)Internal…

- - - - To reduce costs and recognizing the lack of IT expertise, organizations outsorced their IT services.
        They use service providers and the costs are lower and they are able to deliver higher quality.
        The communication and clarification of the requirements is key to ensure the success of any IT system development.
    - - There are 3
        1-Development of IT systems must be driven by the need of IT systems.
        2-The implementation of an IT System must be accompanied by the necessary business changes.
        3-The requirements for IT systems must be defined with rigour and accuracy.
    - - The roles of the programme manager and change manager are well defined
    - - Organizations requires a new set os skills to supprt business managers to not waste financial resources. Deliver business benefits predicted is necessary to the survival of organisations.
    - - External Consultants: They bring a dispassionate view of the company and a broader business perspective.
        Bad thing is the lack of accoutability and transfer skills.
        Internal Consultants: They cost is low, the speed is high because they dont need to learn about the organization and the retention of knowledge.The internal consultants have been increasing last decade. They are lack an external viewpoint buth the know about they business domain.
  - - - This is a typically the work of senior management, supported by strategy consultants.BA can support. Some will require strategic level thinking.They advise the business change.
    - - Systems analyst are responsible for analysing and specifying the IT systems requirements in detail.They use data modeling or funcion modelling, they define the system requirements, data record, user interface.
        Some organisations consider this work a technical work and outside the BA scope.
        Some organizations adopted the IT Business analyst to identify a BA working in the area as systems analysis.
    - - BA will usually be required to investigate a business system where improvements are required.
        BA may resolve a localised business issue. They will recomend actions to overcome a problem.
        BA can enhance or replace an IT system with requirements.
        BA needs to consider all aspects, te process, IT Systems and resources to improve the situation.
  - - - An internal consultancy role that has the responsibility for investigating business
        situations, identifying and evaluating options for improving business systems,
        defining requirements and ensuring the effective use of information systems in
        meeting the needs of the business.
        
        Root causes, not symptoms
        
        Business improvement, not IT change
        
        Options, not solutions
        
        Feasible, contributing requirements, not all requests
        
        The entire business change lifecycle, not just requirements definition
        
        Negotiation, not avoidance
        
        Business agility, not business perfection
    - - Some organizations are BA roles that apply to the strategic analysis or systems analysis activities like: Strategy implemantations, Business case production, Benefits realisations, Specification of IT requirements.
- - - - Needs to have a good working knowledge of the economy and of the basics of business finance
    - - Assess(avalia) the costs and benefits of
        delivering a project to the organisation
    - - Good general understanding of the business domain, or sector, in which your organisation operates,
    - - A good understanding of the business area in which you work is important in order to establish credibility
        with your customer
    - - A general understanding of the field seems necessary so that business analysts can communicate meaningfully with the IT professionals
    - - Have a good understanding of the
        various organisation structures that may be encountered
    - - Needs a broad understanding of procurement and supplier management
        processes.
  - - - To get to the root of a business issue the analyst will have to undertake detailed analysis of the area
    - - Set of practices and processes that lead to the development of a set of well-formed business requirements, from which the business and IT solutions can be developed
    - - Understanding who are the stakeholders in a business analysis project and working out how their interests are best managed
    - - Business system modelling is an approach to visualising business systems
        through the creation of conceptual models.
    - - Understand the business direction and the strengths and weaknesses of an organisation
    - - Detailed process models are used to map and analyse how the business processes actually work and to help identify opportunities for process improvement
    - - It allows the analyst to understand, or even define,
        the terms of reference for the project.
    - - Analysing the data held and used within a business system affords valuable
        insights into how the system operates.
    - - This covers the techniques needed to implement changes within and organisation and to make them ‘stick’.
    - - The interpersonal skills required for effective facilitation
  - - - Have sufficient confidence in yourself, sustain your arguments.
    - - Creating a vision of the options available to address a business issue
    - - Approach an issue with the attitude that problems
        can be solved
    - - Having an eye for detail is also an important attribute of a good business analyst.
    - - It means not settling for the obvious, not accepting things at face value and not
        jumping to premature conclusions.
    - - Ability to work out what is and is not politically acceptable
        in an organisation and to use the right organisational levers to get things done
    - - Business analysts often work in teams.
    - - The ability to influence is
        essential .
    - - The ability to get on
        well with people, at a working if not a social level
    - - Need to communicate with business colleagues in a language and style they are comfortable with and avoid what they perceive as ‘techno-babble’.
- - - - PESLTLE ANALYSIS
        
        Political - Trade regulations and tariffs, social welfare policies
        Economic - Interest rates, infation, unemployment, cost of energy
        Sociocultural - ageing population, lifestyle change, environment.
        Technological - focus on technology, support for invention.
        Legal - legislation about trade practices and competition, employment law.
        Environmental-global warming and climate change, animal welfare.
      - Porter’s five forces model
        
        Helps industries to evaluate the profitability and attractiveness
        
        Bargaining
        power of
        suppliers
        
        Bargaining
        power of
        buyers
        
        Threat of new
        entrants
        
        Threat of
        substitute
        products or
        services
        
        Industry
        competitors –
        rivalry among
        existing firms
  - - - Examines the current Mission, Objectives, Strategy and Tatics.
        Mission - a statement declaring what business the organisation is in, and what it is intending to achieve.
        Objectives - the goals against which the organizations achievements can be measured.
        Strategy - the approach that is going to be taken to achieve the objectives and mission.
        Tactics - the detailed means by which the strategy will be implemente