2. The Competencies of a Business Analyst Flashcards
(55 cards)
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Communication
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Personal Qualities
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Relationship Building
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Personal Qualities
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Influencing
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Personal Qualities
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Facilitation
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Personal Qualities
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Resilience
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Personal Qualities
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Analytical thinking skills
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Personal Qualities
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Attention to detail
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Personal Qualities
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Problem solving
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Personal Qualities
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Leadership
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Personal Qualities
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Adaptable mindset
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Personal Qualities
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Political awareness
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Personal Qualities
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Team working
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Personal Qualities
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Professionalism
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Personal Qualities
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Commercial Awareness
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Business Knowledge
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Business case development
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Business Knowledge
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Domain knowledge
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Business Knowledge
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Subject Matter Expertise
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Business Knowledge
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Digital Technology
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Business Knowledge
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Organization Structures
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Business Knowledge
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Supplier Management
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Business Knowledge
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Enterprise and related architectures
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Business Knowledge
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Stakeholders analysis and management
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Professional techniques
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Strategy Analysis
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Professional techniques
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Investigation techniques
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Professional techniques
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Requirements engineering
Professional techniques
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Business process modelling
Professional techniques
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Data modelling
Professional techniques
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Idea generation and visualisation
Professional techniques
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Gap analysis
Professional techniques
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Benefits Management
Professional techniques
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Project management
Professional techniques
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Portfolio management
Professional techniques
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What is a T-shaped professional
Highly skilled individual who can adapt to different situations, because of the range of skills they possess. Individuals that hold deep skills in their specialist discipline and broad, generic skills across other disciplines.
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To engage well with people, within a business context
Relationship Building
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Having sufficient self confidence to be able to withstand pressure, challenge proposals, analyze impacts and sustain arguments
Resilience
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Digging deeper and deeper until the true situation is uncovered and the real problem has been defined
Analytical skills and critical thinking
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Develop a vision, take ownership of that vision and ensure the actions to achieve that vision are implemented
Leadership
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Mindset that can cope with ambiguity and is adaptable and responsive
Adaptable mindset
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Ability to work out what is and is not politically acceptable when working within an organization and with particular individuals.
Political Awareness
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Ability to work in a team
Team working
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Possessing the knowledge and skills required of the particular role, working collaboratively and respectfully with other colleagues
Professionalism
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Understand the sector and the industry that they work within. Finance is the universal language of the business.
Commercial awareness
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Identifying options to address a business problem and assessing the costs and benefits of each option
Business case development
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Possessing a good general understanding of the business domain, or sector, in which the organisation operates
Domain Knowledge
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More specific, refining domain knowledge to a lower level of detail in a particular business domains and have a strong understanding of the subject area
Subject Matter Expertise
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Ability to identify stakeholders, assess the significance of the stakeholders, analyse stakeholders perspectives and develop stakeholders management strategies
Stakeholder analysis and management
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Understand organizations strategic context to align with objectves and strategy
Strategy analyis
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Investigate business situations and determine where issues and problems lie.
Investigation techniques
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Framework of activities that are applied when defining requirements and encompasses a range of elicitation, analysis and modelling skills.
Requirements Engineering
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Approach to visualizing business systems through the creation of conceptual models
Business modelling
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Reflects the information requirements of the organization and the business rules inherent within the structure of the data
Data modelling
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Technique to stimulate discussion, generate ideas and represent outcomes during a meeting, workshop or focus group
Idea generation and visualisation
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Compare as is and to be business process models
gap analysis
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Active planning, monitoring and evaluation of the benefits predicted in a business case for a business change initiative
benefits management
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Evaluation, Prioritization and delivery of a portfolio of business change projects.
Portfolio Management
