Business Analysis in 5 Steps
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The first step
The first step is to align a strategy worth making, with tactics worth taking, and a contribution worth communicating.
The second step
The second step is to create and define a feasible change in a way that the business expectations are set and are cared about.
The third step
The third step is to tell a complete story that matches the business needs with the stakeholder requirements of that select group of people, the beneficiaries of the system.
The fourth step
The fourth step is the one (that almost) everyone gets excited about: the change—to the IT, to the processes, to the organisation, and to the culture—is implemented.
The last step
The last step is often overlooked: check benefits—regularly, purposefully, and consistently, from ‘year one to year five’—to track and evaluate and adjust the changes that you seek to embed. To earn trust to support and earn acceptance to adjust.
As business analysts, we get to consistently do the work to help the shift spread from person to person, realising a culture as you make change happen.
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Originally published on: https://newberts.blog
About the Author
Joe Newbert is the Chief Training Officer at the Business Change Academy, Virtual Coach with Pragnalysis, Editor for Inter-View Report, Curator of 5W-1H and podcast host on OneSixEight FM.