To be an effective business analysts, you must be able to understand the principles involved in making a decision, and assist the stakeholders in making better decisions.
When stakeholders are faced with having to select an option from numerous different … Read the rest
Creative thinking is the inducing of new ideas, concepts, approaches, and associations between existing ideas and concepts.
It is a flexible approach to problem solving by questioning the standard approaches and inspiring new ideas and transformations that are suitable to … Read the rest
A competent business analyst has to have both analytical thinking and problem solving skills in order to effectively analyze problems, identify opportunities and other necessary changes which would deliver on value and work with the stakeholders to understand the impact … Read the rest
Business analysts have to be able to communicate complex ideas and models in ways that the stakeholders can easily understand.
Visual thinking is defined as the graphical representation of systems or processes.
It is used to help the stakeholders easily … Read the rest
During the course of the project a large amount of information would be generated.
Some of this information might be disconnected so you would have to apply conceptual thinking skills in order to understand this information.
Conceptual thinking is defined … Read the rest
Elicitation is the way in which information is derived from the stakeholders to discover the requirements for the solution while collaboration is when two or more people work together to achieve a common goal or objective.
As a business analyst, … Read the rest
As organizations grow and expand, their business processes might change to accommodate this growth.
These business process changes might include the implementation of a new system, business policies changes or a total restructuring of their organogram.
Some of the reasons … Read the rest
Benchmarking and market analysis are administered to enhance the organizational operations, improve customer satisfaction, and increase value to stakeholders.
Benchmark studies are used to compare organizational practices against industry standards.
Industry best practices may be derived from competitor enterprises, the … Read the rest
An interface is a connection between two or more elements or solutions.
Interface analysis is used to identify where, what, why, when, how, and for whom information is traded between solution elements.
Most solutions need one or more interfaces to … Read the rest
I have previously written about the top 5 skills that an IT Business Analyst should have and SQL is one of them.
SQL which is pronounced S-Q-L or sequel stands for Structured Query Language (SQL).
SQL is supported by all … Read the rest
