BCS Business Analysis Practice Certificate

Drive business improvement by enhancing your analysis, planning and strategic skills. Effectively identify business issues, opportunities, problems and solutions.

3 Day Course$2,200
Online Self-Study$1,000
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Build on your strategic BA skills

As a Business Analyst one of your main roles is to drive business improvement and attain business benefit. Enhance your analysis, planning, problem-solving and strategic skills with the BCS BA Practice course.

This course teaches participants how to develop effective and feasible business solutions by using a range of strategic analysis and enterprise improvement techniques. Gain skills in identifying business issues, opportunities, problems and solutions. All of these could fast track your career and make you stand out from your peers.

TARGET AUDIENCE: This course has no prerequisites and is able to be undertaken by anyone interested in Business Analysis. It is designed for:

Experienced BA’s wanting to build upon their strategic Business Analysis skills in line with best practice.
BA’s looking to achieve the BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis.
Business Analysts looking to accredit their skills for recognition among employers, clients and peers.

EXTRA COURSE INCLUSIONS: Our Pass Guarantee, Exam Revision Questions and other BA goodies are just a few of the extra inclusions you receive when training with Planit – leader in Accredited BCS training. View our full list of extra inclusions.

"The course content was excellent. The facilitator was excellent. I would definitely look at partaking additional courses with Planit."

Preeti Thayumanavan, Dun & Bradstreet

What You’ll Learn

Learning Outcomes

Describe how a business strategy is developed
Use strategic analysis techniques
Describe the need for project discipline
Explain techniques to investigate an organisation’s business systems
Describe an approach to improving business systems
Explain the importance of stakeholder management and use a stakeholder analysis technique
Use techniques for the analysis and modelling of business systems
Describe how recommendations for business improvement may be identified
Describe the contents of a rigorous business case for the development and implementation of business change
Identify costs, benefits, impacts and risks for an option in a business case

Course Content

Business analysis rationale
Strategic analysis in context
A project approach to business analysis
Understanding the situation/issues
Business perspectives
Analysing and modelling the business activities
Creative problem solving
Identifying potential solutions
Making the business case

Concepts and Terminology

Business activity modelling
Business analysis maturity model
Business case development
CATWOE
Change management

Cost/benefit analysis
Fishbone diagrams
Five-forces analysis
Key Performance Indicators
Mind maps

PESTLE
Risk analysis
Soft Systems architecture and methodology
Stakeholder analysis
Strategic analysis

SWOT analysis
Systems thinking

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Examination ($315 + GST)

Candidates take a 1 hour, open-book, scenario-based, essay-style examination.

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What is included with this course?

Inclusions	Online Self-Study	Classroom
Pass Guarantee		✔	On the rare occasion a student doesn’t pass, they can re-attend the course for FREE within 6 months (Excludes exam re-sits).
3 Days' Training		✔	3 days of classroom training with a certified industry professional.
Food & Beverages		✔	Full catering is provided including morning tea, lunch afternoon tea.
Course Manual		✔	250+ page comprehensive course manual.
Exam Revision Questions		✔	Pass first time with our exam revision questions included with the course.
$250 Training Voucher	✔	✔	Get a $250 voucher that can be used for your next course (terms and conditions apply).
On-going Support	✔	✔	We can support you beyond course completion, with 1,000+ highly trained consultants available for onsite assistance.

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"The course content was excellent. The facilitator was excellent. I would definitely look at partaking additional courses with Planit."

Preeti Thayumanavan, Dun & Bradstreet
BCS BA Practice

Why Choose Planit?

Experienced Expert Trainers
Practical Learning Outcomes
Industry Leading Pass Rates