Business analysis encompasses all the tasks and techniques used to liaise with an organization’s stakeholders to understand the organization’s structure, policies and operations, and then to recommend solutions to achieve its goals.
What is required to perform an analysis?
It is important to understand how the organization works to achieve its goals and to define the capabilities it needs to deliver goods and services to external stakeholders.
Alignment of organizational goals
It is also important to identify organizational objectives and how they relate to specific objectives, and what steps the organization must take to achieve its goals and objectives.
The business analysis can be performed to
- understand the current state of an organization
- provide a basis for future business needs.
- define and confirm solutions that can meet business needs and contribute to the achievement of the organization’s goals or objectives.
Role of Business Analyst
Analyzes and summarizes information provided by a large number of people who interact with the business, such as customers, employees, information technology (IT) professionals, and executives.
- The advisor
The analyst is responsible for identifying the real needs of stakeholders, not just fulfilling their wishes. - The translator
Facilitate communication between organizational units, particularly in order to align the needs of organizational units with the information technologies available to them.