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5 Reasons to Adopt Workflow Automation

What is Workflow Automation? As we are in a digital age, automation is everywhere in everyday activities and surroundings. This digital transformation impacts the value chain, the product/services portfolio, development and engineering, all the way to distribution, sales channels and customer relationships. Workflow automation replaces manu...

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This entry was published on Aug 01, 2018 / Byy. Posted in Project Management. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

Pjbussol

Trust in conflict – The healthy way to pick a fight!

TRUST IN CONFLICT - THE HEALTHY WAY TO PICK A FIGHT! Perched on top of the Royal Liver Building in Liverpool, the city I grew up in, is a very special couple; married for over 100 years and standing 18ft tall the legendary Liver Birds, Bella and Bertie have unflinchingly protected the city and her people since 1911. Bel...

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This entry was published on Jun 26, 2018 / Pjbussol. Posted in Roles and Responsibilities. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

Arash

The World of Difference between Business Rules and Business Decisions

Let me start by saying that a business rule is far more granular than a business decision, and that the two should never be confused. Today, it is an unfortunate fact that some vendors would have potential clients believe that there is synergy between business rules and business decisions. Perhaps this is because in an effort to differentiate one b...

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This entry was published on Jun 14, 2018 / Arash. Posted in Business Rules. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

LN Mishra, CBAP

Requirements traceability : What, why and how

Traceability is one of the lesser understood aspects of business analysis. It is indeed quite hard to maintain good traceability unless automated. This is why BABoK® warns us being theoretical about traceability. In this article, I would like to explain traceability concepts with help of an example. BABoK® definition of traceability: ...

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This entry was published on Apr 04, 2018 / LN Mishra, CBAP. Posted in Business Analysis. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

Hitendra 01

Business Analysis Career Path

Most IT jobs have a clear, specific job description and career path. However, the business analyst career path tends to vary, as do the descriptions from job to job. The business analyst career path is best. Because, “There are career tracks that zigzag back and forth between IT and business. Someone might start as a business analyst, and the...

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This entry was published on Mar 21, 2018 / Hitendra 01. Posted in Career as a Business Systems Analyst. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

Arash

What is Predictive Analytics and Why Does It Matter?

What is Data Analytics? To understand the meaning of Predictive Analytics, let’s describe what Data is first. Data is a collection of facts, information, and observations related to a context. The data can be either structured or unstructured, stored in databases, spreadsheets, files, etc. Data analytics is the science of examining the data ...

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This entry was published on Mar 13, 2018 / Arash. Posted in Data Analysis & Modeling. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

Arash

Big Bucket of Rules

There are many definition of business rules and the one that I really like is that business rules are: Criterion used to: Guide conduct or actions. Shape judgments of behavior. Make decisions. Ronald Ross Having this definition in mind, let’s see what challenges a traditional rules manag...

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This entry was published on Mar 13, 2018 / Arash. Posted in Business Rules. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

Goli Tajadod

Patient diagnosis using Predictive Analytics

Patient diagnosis using Predictive Analytics In previous post we discussed different levels of Analytics, here we show a practical example of Predictive Analytics. What if Doctors and Patients could not just get a second opinion, but a third and fourth, and fifth, and so on? We believe that our doctors are all medical experts but patient diag...

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This entry was published on Mar 12, 2018 / Goli Tajadod. Posted in Data Analysis & Modeling. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

EA Learning

How Business Architecture can help Project Managers to be successful.

One of my favourite questions to ask candidates when I was in the executive recruitment game was “In your experience what makes a successful (insert name of role I was recruiting for)”. It was a great catch-all question as the answers provided gave a very good indication of where the candidate sat on the professional continuum for th...

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This entry was published on Mar 01, 2018 / EA Learning. Posted in Business Process Management (BPM) . Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

Limor Wainstein

Disaster Recovery and the Role of the Disaster Recovery Analyst

Disaster recovery entails processes that ensure the swift re-establishment of an enterprise’s important data, IT systems, and applications in the event of an unexpected outage caused by either a man-made or natural disaster. The importance of disaster recovery is clear when assessing the costs to enterprises of system outages&md...

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This entry was published on Feb 14, 2018 / Limor Wainstein. Posted in Roles and Responsibilities. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

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Jarett Hailes

Three Audacious Goals for Business Analysts in 2013

As we start a new year many of us will take the time to reflect on our accomplishments from 2012 and plan our goals for 2013. We can set small or large goals. goals that will be accomplished quickly or could take several years. For 2013, I think Business Analysts should look to go beyond our traditional boundaries and set audacious goals. Merriam-...

Howard Podeswa

Hey IIBA, What’s Up With That?

Recently, I was asked by the IIBA to present a talk at one of their chapter meetings. I am reprinting here my response to that invitation in the hope that it will begin a conversation with fellow EEPs and BAs about an area of great concern to the profession. Hi xx …. Regarding the IIBA talk, there is another issue that I am considering. It's p...

Adrian M.

BA ABCs: “C” is for Class Diagram

Continuing the ABC series for Business Analysts, Howard Podeswa created the next installment titled "BA ABCs: “C” is for Class Diagram" as an article rather than a blog post. You can find the article here: BA ABCs: “C” is for Class Diagram Here are the previous two posts: BA ABCs: “A” is for Activity Diagram BA ABCs: “B” is for BPMN