6 Strategy Analysis Flashcards
What is Strategy Analysis ?
Business analysis work that must be performed to collaborate with stakeholders in order to identify a need of strategic or tactical importance (the business need), enable the enterprise to address that need, and align the resulting strategy for the change with higher and lowe-level stategies.
A strategy may be captured in a strategic plan, product vision, business case, product roadmap, or other artifacts.
What are the TASKS of Strategy Analysis ?
- 6.1 Analyze Current State
- 6.2 Define Future State
- 6.3 Assess Risks
- 6.4 Define Change Strategy
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- 1 Analyze Current State
What is the “Analyze Current State” purpose ?
Understands the reasons why an enterprise needs to change some aspect of how it operates and what would be directly or indirectly affected by the change.
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- 2 Define Future State
What is the “Define Future State” purpose ?
To determine the set of necessary conditions to meet the business need.
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- 3 Assess Risks
What is the “Assess Risks” purpose ?
The purpose of Assess Risks is to understand the undesirable consequences of internal and external forces on the enterprise during a transition to, or once in, the future state.
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- 4 Define Change Strategy
What is the “Define Change Strategy” purpose ?
The purpose of Define Change Strategy is to develop and assess alternative
approaches to the change, and then select the recommended approach.
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- 1 Analyze Current State
What is the “Analyze Current Stat” Outputs ?
- 6.1 Current State Description
* 6.1 Business Requirements
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- 2 Define Future State
What is the “Define Future State” Outputs ?
- 6.2 Business Objectives
- 6.2 Future State Description
- 6.2 Potential Value
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- 3 Assess Risks
What is the “Assess Risks” Outputs ?
6.3 Risk Analysis Results
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- 4 Define Change Strategy
What is the “Define Change Strategy” Outputs ?
- 6.4 Change Strategy
* 6.4 Solution Scope
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- 1 Analyze Current State
What are the “Analyze Current State” Elements ?
1- Business Needs 2- Organizational Structure and Culture 3- Capabilities and Processes (capabylity-centrice view vs process-centric view) 4- Technology and Infrastructure 5- Policies 6- Business Architecture 7- Internal Assets 8- External Influencers (Industry structure, competitors, customers, suppliers, political and regulatory environment, technology, macroeconomic factors)
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- 2 Define Future State
What are the “Define Future State” Elements ?
1- Business Goals and Objectives 2- Scope of Sulution Space 3- Constraints 4- Organizational Structure and Culture 5- Capabilities and Processes 6- Technology and Infrastructure 7- Policies 8- Business Architecture 9- Internal Assets 10- Identify Assumptions 11-Potential Value
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- 3 Assess Risks
What are the “Assess Risks” Elements ?
1- Unknowns 2- Constraints, Assumptions, and Dependencies 3- Negative Impact to Value 4- Risk Tolerance 5- Recommendation
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- 4 Define Change Strategy
What are the “Define Change Strategy” Elements ?
1- Solution Scope
2- Gap Analysis (current state vs future state capabilities)
3- Enterprise Readiness Assessment
4- Change Strategy
5- Transition States and Release Planning
6.0 Strategy Analysis
This output is define as:
The context of the enterprise’s scope, capabilities, resources, performance, culture, dependencies, infrastructure, external influences, and significant relationships between these elements.
Current State Description
