Jim SinurBusiness Analysts are in for an exciting ride as they move to being more analytical over time. Today business analysts are the grease that helps out operationally. They create and run reports, they collect requirements and documents them, manage the idiosyncrasies of Share Point and in some cases manage local servers, printers et al. This is good stuff, but not sufficient going forward.
The future will be asking more of business analysts. They will be front and center as a key role in defining and maintaining the processes. This will mean that business analysts will be a key cog in the business of business process improvement.
From reacting to problems to demonstrating the power of proactive processes
From gathering requirements to translating and amplifying them
From running performance reports to performing reviews of process performance
From documenting work to discovering and sharing best process practices
From responding to exceptions to simulating alternative solutions and scenarios
From responder to IT projects to the coordinator between process owners & IT
From the last to know to the first to know working process consistency and outcomes
Category: BPM Business Process Improvement Tags: BPM
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