Strategy & Business Analysis

Introduction

This highly interactive and practical Strategy & Business Analysis training course will help you to understand the business analysis work that is needed to collaborate with stakeholders in order to identify and address a requirement of strategic importance (the business need), then align the resulting strategy for the change with higher and lower-level strategies.

This GLOMACS Strategy & Business Analysis training course will give you practice developing the necessary skills including:

• Understanding enterprise problems and goals
• Analysing current state and defining future state
• Devising strategies
• Driving change
• Facilitating stakeholder engagement

Objectives

• Understand the link between business analysis and strategy
• Understand how business analysis can help to implement business strategy
• Align potential solutions with strategic goals
• Examine the links with other perspectives including Agile and BPM
• Identify and define the organization’s current and future states
• Apply relevant strategic thinking tools and techniques 
• Identify strategic risks
• Analyse performance measures
• Define solution design options
• Understand how to analyse value

Methodology

This Strategy & Business Analysis training course utilises short presentations, practical exercises, video inputs, business simulation activities and case studies. Delegates will be encouraged to participate actively in applying the methods and tools of strategic business analysis to the specific needs of their organisation.

Organisational Impact

• Facilitate strategic change
• Improved strategic alignment
• Contribute to the achievement of strategic plans 
• Ability to recognise a good business strategy
• Understand how to change from the current position to a desired future state

Personal Impact

• Improved strategic thinking and analysis skills
• More highly developed problem solving and critical thinking skills
• An increased ability to help achieve strategic improvement
• Appreciation of how strategy and business analysis link with other important perspectives
• Enhanced strategic management and planning capability