Course Overview

Strategy analysis provides the focus upon which all other business analyst efforts must align. Shortcutting strategy analysis often results in delivering solutions that are misaligned with the organization’s strategy and the expectations and needs of the business and stakeholders. This course will help you understand the criticality of defining the business need correctly and pursuing a thorough analysis of the internal and external environments of the enterprise before assisting the organization in selecting the best solution.

Participants will learn how to define the business need, analyze the current state, define the future state, and make solution recommendations to move to the future state. They will also learn how to improve their strategic thinking skills and the key activities to be performed in creating a change strategy.

Who Should Attend

This course is intended for business analysts, systems analysts, project managers, Business and IT stakeholders working with business analysts or anyone who needs to define the business need and make solution recommendations or needs to understand the activities performed in strategy analysis.

Course Objectives

• Understand what comprises strategy analysis and when and how it is performed
• Identify the “big picture” and improve your strategic thinking skills
• Increase project success by better defining the business need
• Learn how to analyze the current state and define future state
• Develop and assess alternative approaches to the change and propose the “best” recommended solution
• Determine how to evaluate a solution once it is implemented to ensure it meets its expected value

Course Outline