Business Analysis

Business Analysis

Business analysts do not work solely on developing software systems. But work across the organisation, solving business problems in consultation with business stakeholders. Whilst most of the work that business analysts do today relate to software development/solutions, this derives from the ongoing massive changes businesses all over the world are experiencing in their attempts to digitise.

Although there are different role definitions, depending upon the organization, there does seem to be an area of common ground where most business analysts work. The responsibilities appear to be:

• To investigate business systems, taking a holistic view of the situation. This may include examining elements of the organizational structures and staff development issues as well as current processes and IT systems.

• To evaluate actions to improve the operation of a business system. Again, this may require an examination of organisational structure and staff development needs, to ensure that they are in line with any proposed process redesign and IT system development.

• To document the business requirements for the IT system support using appropriate documentation standards.