Business Analysis

Business Analysis is a practical introductory guide for anyone involved with business analysis, improving efficiency or the alignment of IT with organizational objectives. Describing the fundamental skills and competencies required of a business analyst, it includes techniques to analyse business problems and IT requirements, model business processes and implement changes. Business Analysis explores the key early stages of the development lifecycle; the nature of business problems; how organizations develop; and the drivers that contribute to the development of the business analysis discipline. Business Analysis has been written by a team of experts who are both practitioners and educators in the business analysis arena. They are all members of the International Business Systems Development Forum (IBSDF).•Competencies of a business analyst•A framework for business analysis•Strategy analysis•Stakeholder analysis•Modelling business systems•Business process modelling•Business case development•Requirements engineering•Managing business change•Information resource management