CERTIFIED STRATEGIC ANALYSIS & PURPOSE PROFESSIONAL

NAME OF THE COURSE
CERTIFIED STRATEGIC ANALYSIS & PURPOSE PROFESSIONAL
 
CERTIFICATION
CERTIFIED STRATEGIC ANALYSIS & PURPOSE PROFESSIONAL
 
COURSE OVERVIEW
Understand the importance of defining the business need correctly and pursuing a thorough analysis of the internal and external environments of the enterprise before choosing the solution. Shortcutting the pre-analysis work discussed in this course often results in delivering solutions that are misaligned to the enterprise strategy and to the expectations and needs of the business. Learn how to avoid the pitfall of jumping to a solution prior to a solid understanding of the opportunity or problem needing to be addressed.
 
TRAINING DURATION
Training Hours per day : 4-6 Hours
Total Training Hours : 20-24 Hours
Training Duration      : 5 Days
Total Training  Days  : 5-10 Working Days
 
TRAINING SCHEDULE
Weekdays (Sunday to Thursday)
Regular Sessions : 4 – 6 Hrs Per day (9am to 2pm or 3.00pm to 9.00 pm)
Food & refreshments Included
Weekends (Friday & Saturday)
Fast Track Sessions: 8 Hours per day (9am to 5pm)
Food & refreshments Included
 
CERTIFICATION
Globally recognized certificate from “Kings Global Career Academy”
 
TEST
No
 
LEARNING AIDS
Yes
 
COURSE MATERIAL
Hard & Soft Copies of Study Material
 
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
English
 
INSTRUCTOR HELPLINE
Yes
1. Email
2. Social Media (For Emergency requirements)
 
REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
1. Passport Copy
2. Curriculum Vitae
3. Passport size photographs
4. Course Fee
 
MODE OF PAYMENT
Cash / Cheque / Credit Card / Bank Transfer.
 
ELIGIBLE FOR
Executives, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Business and IT stakeholders working with business analysts
 
COURSE BENEFITS
  • Learn how to assess and analyze the current state (as-is) of an organization to get a good feel for their structure, culture, and capabilities
  • Understand how to properly define project success by identifying the conditions that need to be met within the future state (to-be)
  • Understand how to use gap analysis to uncover the necessary changes to get the organization from the current as-is state to the future to-be state
  • Learn how to utilize the brainstorming and workshop techniques to identify, assess, and mitigate risks to the project and the organization
  • Learn how to determine viable solutions and recommend the best solution to meet the business needs and fill the identified gap
  • Gain the ability to conduct a cost-benefit analysis to validate when the recommended solution will give a return on investment
  • Learn to create a Business Case that gets approved by tying all of the learned details together into a succinct document that provides reasoning and financial justification to move forward
 
COURSE CONTENTS
 
1 – FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS
  • Components of business analysis
  • Business analysis competencies
  • IIBA/PMI and the goals of a professional association
  • The purpose of having a BA standard
  • Exercise: Review the case study
 
2 – STRATEGIC ANALYSIS
  • Definition and purpose of Strategy Analysis
  • The timing of Strategy Analysis
  • Identifying stakeholders and the business need
  • Discussions: Strategy analysis in your organization, When business needs are not clearly defined, and Strategy Analysis and the business analyst
  • Exercises: Describe Strategy Analysis, Identify Roles/Responsibilities, and Identify the business need
 
3 – CURRENT STATE ANALYSIS
  • The importance of analyzing Current State
  • Understanding Business Architecture
  • Techniques for analyzing Current State
 
4 – DEFINE THE FUTURE STATE
  • Future State description
  • Assessing impacts on business architecture
  • Determining Solution Scope
  • Discussions: Managing expectations with stakeholders, Capturing current capabilities, and How to approach acquiring capabilities
 
5 – ASSESS RISKS
  • Identifying risks
  • Risk Tolerance/ Categories/ risk responses
  • The concept of positive risk
  • Techniques for identifying risks
  • Discussions: Who is responsible for identifying risks? Who captures positive risks today?
  • Exercise: Identify Risks
 
6 – CHANGE STRATEGY
  • Defining change strategy
  • Components of change strategy
  • Solution scope, enterprise readiness and change
  • Techniques for defining a change strategy
 
7 – DEVELOPING BUSINESS CASE
  • The purpose of a business case
  • Business case components
  • Building a convincing business case
  • Determining the Recommended Solution
  • Packaging the business case
  • Reviewing the business case with stakeholders
  • Discussions: Evaluating project proposals and anticipating questions for the business case review
  • Exercise: Create a business case
 
8 – ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
  • Helpful links for obtaining additional business analysis information

 

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