2. The Competencies of a Business Analyst Flashcards

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Communication

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Relationship Building

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Influencing

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Facilitation

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Resilience

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Analytical thinking skills

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Attention to detail

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Problem solving

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Leadership

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Adaptable mindset

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Political awareness

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Team working

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Professionalism

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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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19
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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

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Professional techniques

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Business process modelling

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Professional techniques

27
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Data modelling

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Professional techniques

28
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Idea generation and visualisation

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Professional techniques

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Gap analysis

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Professional techniques

30
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Benefits Management

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Professional techniques

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Project management

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Professional techniques

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Portfolio management

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Professional techniques

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What is a T-shaped professional

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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.

34
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To engage well with people, within a business context

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Relationship Building

35
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Having sufficient self confidence to be able to withstand pressure, challenge proposals, analyze impacts and sustain arguments

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Resilience

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Digging deeper and deeper until the true situation is uncovered and the real problem has been defined

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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

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Leadership

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Mindset that can cope with ambiguity and is adaptable and responsive

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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.

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Political Awareness

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Ability to work in a team

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Team working

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Possessing the knowledge and skills required of the particular role, working collaboratively and respectfully with other colleagues

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Professionalism

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Understand the sector and the industry that they work within. Finance is the universal language of the business.

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Commercial awareness

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Identifying options to address a business problem and assessing the costs and benefits of each option

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Business case development

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Possessing a good general understanding of the business domain, or sector, in which the organisation operates

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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

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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

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Stakeholder analysis and management

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Understand organizations strategic context to align with objectves and strategy

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Strategy analyis

48
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Investigate business situations and determine where issues and problems lie.

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Investigation techniques

49
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Framework of activities that are applied when defining requirements and encompasses a range of elicitation, analysis and modelling skills.

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Requirements Engineering

50
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Approach to visualizing business systems through the creation of conceptual models

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Business modelling

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Reflects the information requirements of the organization and the business rules inherent within the structure of the data

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Data modelling

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Technique to stimulate discussion, generate ideas and represent outcomes during a meeting, workshop or focus group

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Idea generation and visualisation

53
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Compare as is and to be business process models

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gap analysis

54
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Active planning, monitoring and evaluation of the benefits predicted in a business case for a business change initiative

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benefits management

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Evaluation, Prioritization and delivery of a portfolio of business change projects.

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Portfolio Management