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GetAhead in business analysis

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This training course will teach you the core skills needed for the analysis and design of the key processes that constitute any business system.

Business Analysis

You will learn how to:

Apply the recognized industry standard approach to business analysis.
Identify opportunities and problem areas within an existing business environment.
Model and assess the impact of any proposed changes to a business system.
Design and document robust and reliable business systems.
Carry out the analysis and design to precisely the level of detail required.

Study Area 1 - Introduction

Business analysis provides a foundation for the analysis, comprehension and design of new business processes. It is also a technique that underpins business process re-engineering. This course teaches candidates how to create business models that depict the current, or planned, business system and how to optimize the use of business processes within any business environment.

Study Area 2 - Modelling Simple Scenarios

Diagram Notation - Explains the structure and notation of business process diagrams. Topics covered include: entities, data flows, processes, data stores and resource flows.
Context Diagrams - Introduces and tests knowledge and skills in producing simple context diagrams as a way of documenting system boundaries.

Study Area 3 - Conducting the Analysis

Level 1 Diagrams - Explains how to analyse and document the main functional areas of the system under investigation.
Resource Flow - Demonstrates how to identify, read and draw resource flow diagrams.
Organization Structure - Teaches candidates to conduct an analysis from the perspective of the organization structure.
Document Flow - Describes how to conduct the investigation by analysing the flow of documents and information within a business system.

Study Area 4 - Refining the Model

Simplifying Diagrams - Explains how to simplify business process diagrams so that they can be used to communicate to senior management.
Top Down Expansion - Explains how to conduct top down expansion, or ‘decomposition’.
Elementary Processes - Illustrates how to identify and annotate elementary processes.
Checking Diagrams - Explains how to examine and verify the entire business model to ensure that it is meaningful, intelligible and complete.