Key Benefits

• Identify the best change projects to undertake
• Define the specific change that is needed
• Focus on achieving the key benefits
• Make change sustainable
• Measure impact on strategy

Key Features

• Up to 12 delegates
• Real-life scenarios
• Case study exercise
• 2 days
• £1,950 (excludes expenses and VAT)

effective business analysis

How To Turn Strategy into Reality

Most companies worth their salt with have developed a long term strategy, described in a set of specific objectives. But where many struggle is in meeting these objectives; instead they remain just that...objectives.

The need for good project management is a given but on its own is not enough. There is a set of skills and techniques that are required to link the delivery of a project with the strategy that drives it. Often described as business analysis, these skills and techniques include:

• Modelling the current and future state of the business
• How to prioritise business change projects
• Creating a compelling business case
• Capturing and agreeing stakeholder requirements
• Measuring benefits realisation

Topics covered include:

• Establish business context
  • Business analysis and the business analyst
  • Understanding strategy
  • The business analysis process
  • Understanding systems analysis
• Identify issues and define perspectives
  • Identifying stakeholders
  • Elicitation techniques
  • Defining perspectives
  • Creating business activity models
• Analyse need and evaluate options
  • Modeling techniques
  • Cost/benefit analysis
  • Creating a business case
• Define requirements and implement change
  • Managing requirements
  • Managing change
  • Benefits realisation

Equipped with these skills, you can be sure that you identify the problem/opportunity, define the change that is needed and choose the most effective option to affect the change. Which means that your strategy becomes a reality rather than just a paper exercise.