BCS Foundation Certificate In Business Analysis

BCS Foundation course provides business analysis skills to the delegates that can be used in the workplace. With the help of this training, the delegates will able to identify issues in systems, manage stakeholders and develop effective business strategies. The delegates will understand how to analyse, model business activities, analyse stakeholder perspectives and identify potential solutions. At the end of the training, the delegates will able to use strategic analysis techniques as well as understand the techniques required to investigate the business systems of an organisation.

With the help of training, the delegates will able to understand how to categorise, analyse and manage stakeholders. The delegates also understand how to identify recommendations for business improvement. Throughout the training, the delegates will learn about the usage of techniques for the analysis and modelling of business systems.

The Business Change Life Cycle

• The Role of the Business Analyst in the Business Change Life Cycle
  • Producing the Business Case
  • Other Roles in the Business Change Life Cycle

• The Framework for Business Analysis Activities
  • Relating Business Analysis to Strategic Analysis, Definition, and it Systems Analysis
  • The Holistic Approach to Business Analysis

Understanding the Strategic Context

• Analysing the Business Environment
  • Internal and External Environments
  • Analysing the Business with Swot Analysis
• Developing Business Metrics
  • Identifying your Critical Success Factors (Csf)
  • Creating key Performance Indicators (Kpi)
  • Identifying Critical Success with the Balanced Business Scorecard

Project Discipline for Business Analysis Studies

• Reading the terms of Reference or Project Initiation Document
• Oscar (Objectives, Scope, Constraints, Authority and Resources)
• What does the Business wish to achieve and deliver?
• Creating Smart Objectives

Understanding the Business Situation

• Stakeholder Identification
  • Using the Stakeholder Wheel
  • Overview of Investigative Techniques
• Representing a Holistic View of the Business Situation
  • Generating Rich Pictures
  • Making Mind Maps

Analysing Stakeholder Perspectives

• Stakeholder Analysis and Management
  • Power/Interest Grid
  • Stakeholder Management Strategies
• Identifying and Defining Different Perspectives
  • Contrasting Different Stakeholder Perspectives
  • Analysing the Root Cause with Catwoe

Analysing and Modelling Business Activities

• Developing a Business Activity Model
  • Depicting Business Perspectives with a Business Activity Model (Bam)
  • Describing the Bam Process and Notation
  • Identifying Business Events
• Analysing Business Rules
  • Distinguishing between Business Rule Types
  • Recognizing Business Rules Levels of Constraint
• Building the Consensus Business Activity Model
  • Identifying differences between Business Activity Models
  • Negotiating to Resolve Conflicts

Identifying Potential Solutions

• Gap Analysis - Comparing the ideal and Existing Systems
  • Outlining the Gap Analysis Process
  • Identifying Inputs to, and Outputs from, Gap Analysis
• Defining a new Business Model
  • Exploiting Areas for Change - Processes, People, Technology and Organisation
• Identifying Requirements using Business Activity and Business Process Models
  • Classifying Models that Document and Analyse Requirements
  • Recognising Data/Processing Requirements

Making the Business Case

• The Business Case Life Cycle
  • Structuring the Business Case
  • Identifying and Shortlisting Options for Business Change
• Identifying and Categorising Costs and Benefits
  • Classifying Tangible and Intangible Costs and Benefits
  • Investment Appraisal Techniques
• Risk and Impact Identification, Categorisation, and Management
  • Identifying and Assessing Risk Impact and Probability
  • Risk Management Approaches