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The breathless pronouncements surrounding Artificial Intelligence often paint a picture of wholesale disruption, a technological tidal wave poised to obliterate established business practices. Yet the truth is more nuanced: AI does not replace strategy; it replaces bad strategy. In the absence of a ...
The breathless pronouncements surrounding Artificial Intelligence often paint a picture of wholesale disruption, a technological tidal wave poised to obliterate established busines...
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This article explores the fascinating intersection of physics and business analysis, revealing how timeless scientific principles can transform your approach to solving business challenges.

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Business Analysts (BAs) are pivotal in guiding organizations through a rapidly evolving landscape, leveraging new technologies and methodologies to address complex problems. In 2025, these ten trends will redefine the scope and capabilities of business analysis, enabling businesses to thrive in complex environments.  Here’s how individual analysts can prepare to take advantage of these opportunities.

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Imagine you are in the cockpit of an airplane. Before taking off, you need to ensure all systems are operational, from the engine to the navigation tools. Now, think of your business as that airplane and cybersecurity as the systems you must inspect before flight. In the same way pilots rely on checklists, business analysts use cybersecurity maturity assessments to evaluate an organization’s preparedness for cyber threats. These assessments help you determine where your company stands in its cybersecurity journey, revealing strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement.

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Shared or informal accountability emerges from peers’ expectations and the software professionals’ intrinsic drive. While the former promotes a sense of collective accountability, where individuals feel compelled to reciprocate and demonstrate their accountability to their peers, the latter is innate and intrinsically grounded. When feeling intrinsically driven to achieve certain outcomes (e.g., code quality or meeting deadlines), software professionals manifest a self-driven accountability. This self-imposed answerability is rooted in a personal desire to excel or meet self-imposed standards, reflecting software professionals’ internal commitment and motivation to uphold and align the quality of their deliverable with their professional and personal values. Shared accountability is mainly reinforced by software engineering and development practices (i.e., testing and code review) and peers’ feedback.

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Tools can amplify a software developer’s capability, but ineffective or inappropriate tool usage amplifies their shortcomings as well. Properly applied tools and practices can add great value to a project team by increasing quality and productivity, improving planning and collaboration, and bringing order out of chaos. But even the best tools won’t overcome weak processes, untrained team members, challenging change initiatives, or cultural issues in the organization. 

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