Business Analysis

Job Offer – Is it worth it?

These are some of the generic recommendations that every job seeker, including the business analyst, must consider. The following points will help you reach a well-considered decision. Job offer – Is it worth it? Company What is the company’s core business, e.g., hospitality, manufacturing, banking, construction, transportation, etc.? Next, check […]

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Is Business Analysis Role Losing Its Shine?

During my mentoring sessions, I often come across the question – Is Business Analysis Role Losing Its Shine?  Well, No.  Contrarily, the business analyst roles are getting bigger, more sophisticated and more valuable in recent days. It is challenging for any organization to manage large size change without capable business analyst,

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Business Analysis: The Question and Answer Book (Sample Chapter- 1.2)

[vc_row gap=”20″ equal_height=”yes” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] Chapter – Introduction  1.2 The Business Analyst’s Role What is the Scope of business analyst role? The scope of a business analyst’s role can be broadly categorized into three main areas: Strategy Analysis Business Analysis IT System Analysis [Paul, Yeats et al. 2011] The following

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BAT (Business Acceptance Test) Vs UAT (User Acceptance Test)

BAT (Business Acceptance Testing) and UAT (User Acceptance Testing) are both much misunderstood terms that often end up getting used interchangeably. However, the two have completely varying meanings. BAT (Business Acceptance Testing) is primarily focused on assessing the business requirement of an organization and deals with strategy. It is based on approach, dynamics, culture,

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Automated model-driven BPMN approach for Business Analyst

This is my review to research paper “Resource-based Modeling and Simulation of Business Processes” written by Andrea D’Ambrogio. It is an interesting research paper that explores the simulation-based analysis of business processes that covers all the phases in BP lifecycle, starting from design to execution and improvement to post implementation enhancement phases.

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Business Analysis vs Business Intelligence

There is significant difference between Business Analysis (BA) and Business Intelligence(BI) because BA has larger scope as it is application to all types of projects (including BI) where as BI covers only software applications used to analyze an organization’s raw data (data mining, analysis and reporting related project) to make

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Opportunities in Business Analysis field…

Business Analysis includes strategy analysis, business process management, business-technology-management i.e. analyzing business (using business analysis process and business analysis techniques) and identifying solution for better business with or without using IT. Business Strategy Analysis: Analyst with business background can go for strategy analysis part of business analysis and work closely

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