BCS-ISEB Business Analysis Practice

Target Audience

BCS Business Analysis Practice is the new name for the popular ISEB Business Analysis Essentials course. It is a core module for the Business Analysis Diploma. BCS Business Analysis Practice courses are available in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow, Edinburgh and other UK cities.

Business analysts and others who need to understand businesses and define how they should change. The analysts may be participating in any change management programme. The course is not limited to the analysis of IT system requirements.

This course provides a well-defined approach for the business analyst to follow, supplemented by proven techniques. This approach helps the analyst to understand the context in which the business operates in order to model and analyse its activities. Exploring the creative possibilities, including the stakeholders’ perspectives, helps to identify a range of solutions to the business’s problems. The business case identifies the most appropriate of those solutions.

Learning Objectives

Successful delegates will be able to:

  • Describe how a business strategy is developed and use strategic analysis techniques
  • Identify the external and internal influences which affect a business
  • Analyse and model business systems
  • Take account of the perspectives of different stakeholders
  • Identify potential business improvements
  • Evaluate improvements by means of a business case
  • Identify costs, benefits, impacts and risks for an option in a business case
  • Derive IT system requirements from the business model

Pre-Requisites

None - though it is recommended that those with no prior knowledge of Business Analysis choose the ISEB Business Analysis Foundation course.

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Course Summary

  • Rationale for Business Analysis
  • Strategic analysis in context
  • Project discipline for business analysis studies
  • Understanding the situation/issues
  • Business perspectives
  • Analysing and modelling business activities
  • Identifying potential solutions
  • Making the business case
  • Accepting the business case

Examinations

BCS Certificate in Business Analysis Practice.

This in an updated version of the ISEB Certificate in Business Analysis Essentials.

The format is a one hour, written, open book exam based on a business scenario.  There is 15 minutes reading time.

The exam is taken on the final day of the course.

This certificate is a core module for the BCS-ISEB Diploma in Business Analysis.