Business Analysis Training

About us

LSA Training is an institution providing professional education to individuals pursuing career growth in an increasingly sophisticated and competitive world. We aim to promote excellence in education and training in both the academic and corporate world.

Extensive Accelerated Course -

• Week day Batches: 8 Days( Mon To Fri 10am to 4pm)  2 Weeks
• Weekends Batches:    4 weekends 10am to 4pm (Sat and Sun)
• Evening Batches: 3 Weeks Mon to Fri (6pm to 9pm)

Fee: £900(The price excludes the BCS Professional Certification (ISEB) examination fee)

Business Analysis Essentials Training Course

The Business Analysis Essentials training course provides participants with the skills they need to become effective business analysts. A range of business analysis essential techniques including SWOT analysis, stakeholder management, business activity modelling and gap analysis are explored. During the course, participants will be encouraged to apply these techniques in the context of a business analysis assignment. The stages of this assignment will include the investigation of the business situation, analysis of key issues and their root causes, gap analysis to establish the business problems as well as the identification and evaluation of possible solutions.

The Business Analysis Essentials training course is delivered by trainers who bring their substantial experience of practical business analysis projects to the programme. The case study supporting the course is based on a genuine consultancy assignment. A comprehensive manual, containing detailed information about business analysis techniques and providing references for further reading, is supplied as part of the course.

BCS Professional Certifications

This course prepares participants to sit the examination for the BCS Professional Certification (ISEB) in Business Analysis Essentials. This involves a one-hour, open book examination that may be taken at the end of the course or at a public examination session. This certificate is a core module for the Business Analysis Diploma and is a specialist module in the Solution Development Diploma.

SFIA Mapping

This course supports skills BUAN and RLMT, level 5.

Course Content

1. Business analysis rationale
   • What is a business system
   • The place of business analysis
   • Business analysis versus systems analysis
   • Approaches to business analysis
2. Strategic analysis in context
3. Understanding the organisation's strengths and weaknesses
4. External analysis – PESTLE
5. Internal analysis – Resource Audit
6. Building a comprehensive SWOT analysis
7. Measuring performance – the Balanced Business Scorecard
8. Critical success factors and key performance indicators
9. Business analysis studies as projects
10. Terms of reference and project initiation
11. Assuring business benefit
12. Types of business 'problem'
13. Rich pictures and mind maps
14. Defining the problem
15. Review of investigation techniques
16. Analysing stakeholders
17. Stakeholder management strategies
18. Business perspective – introduction
19. Defining the perspective – CATWOE
20. Modelling business activities
21. Five types of business activity
22. Consolidating perspectives and business activity models
23. End-to-end process models
24. Exploring the gap between the current and desired situation
25. Areas for business improvement (organisation context, processes, people)
26. Holistic approach to business solutions
27. Contents of a business case
28. Options
29. Costs and benefits
30. Impacts and risks
31. Payback and discounted cash flow
32. Presenting the business case
33. A project approach to business analysis
34. Understanding the situation/issues
35. Business perspectives
36. Analysing and modelling the business activities
37. Identifying potential solutions
38. Making the business case

Training Highlights

• Instructor Led - Face2Face / True Live Online class
• More interaction with student to faculty and student to student.
• Detailed presentations. Soft copy of Material to refer any time.
• Practical oriented / Job oriented Training. Practice on Software Tools & Real Time project scenarios.
• Mock interviews / group discussions / interview related questions.
• Test Lab is in Cloud Technology - to practice on software tools if needed.
• We discuss about the real time project domains.
• The teaching methods / tools / topics we chosen are based on the current competitive job market.

Expected Salary/ Pay Package:

Expected Salaries are as follows:

For Contractors £400 to £600 per day

Permanent Positions £40 to £60k per annum all depends on experience and skills set

Call us for more details on:  +44 – 203 371 0546, or contact us at training@lsatraining.co.uk