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Business Analysis Techniques, 3rd Edition
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Business Analysis Techniques, 3rd Edition

by James Cadle, Debra Paul, Jonathan Hunsley, Adrian Reed, David Beckham, Paul Turner
August 2021
Beginner to intermediate
388 pages
12h 7m
English
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
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4 BUSINESS PROCESS IMPROVEMENT

INTRODUCTION

This service in the BASF involves researching, analysing and defining current and proposed business processes, and applying gap analysis to identify actions required to implement the revised processes.

Some early approaches to business analysis involved analysing and documenting the existing situation and then adding in additional requirements that would solve current problems. However, this view of business analysis often gave rise to incremental improvement but did not take account of broader stakeholder visions for the business system. A particular risk was that, by using the existing processes as a starting point, any inherent defects in the design of the system might be perpetuated into the ...

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