3-Part Blog Series – Part 1: Create Organizational Change by Advocating for Business Analysis
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Organizational change can start with one. This is great news if you don’t have much corporate support yet want to create organizational change. With a few tips, you can create lasting, company-wide change.
3 Tips for Creating Organizational Change
Inciting change as a party of one can feel like an overwhelming task, but it doesn’t have to be. Here are a few ideas for creating the business change you desire:
1. Connect with business analysis professionals - If you want to create change, start by touching base with business analysis professionals, who are enablers of change. The Zarantech blog stated, “Business Analysts are usually tagged as ‘Change Agents,’ as they play a crucial role in guiding enterprises in taking the necessary steps to find innovations and change their services for structuring an organization.”
2. Foster communication with business analysis professionals - If you want to create change, you’ll need to take steps to promote communication and collaboration with business analysis professionals. One practical way to do this is by starting a Yammer group. You could also socialize business analysis templates, stories, and standards. Becoming the catalyst for the enablement of a common language will help you promote communication and collaboration that facilitates change.
3. Advocate for business analysis capability - Business analysis creates value by increasing a team’s efficiency in projects. It reduces costs, delivers value, and increases ROI. Get the organizational leaders at your company committed to building business analysis capability by reaching out to the IIBA. The IIBA will advocate for business analysis at your organization by helping you get buy-in from key business leaders.
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Business Analysis Education and Advocacy Promotes Organizational Change
By advocating for business analysis in strategic ways, you can create organizational change. Connecting with business analysis professionals, keeping lines of communication with analysts open, and getting buy-in from the right organizational leaders via education and support from the IIBA will ensure you see change sooner rather than later.
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About The Author:
Sema Sali is a business analysis ambassador at IIBA, leveraging the intercept of marketing with business analysis to increase awareness of the value and criticality of business analysis to the success of organizations in today’s complex and disruptive world. She contributes to the growth of IIBA’s ecosystem through marketing efforts of IIBA’s Organizational Programs for Corporate, Academic and Endorsed Education Providers.
