Business analysis is the discipline of identifying business needs and determining solutions to business problems. As part of its Project and Program role NewGen MC can deliver business analysis needs to customers as well. This can be either delivered as a bundled service together with the Project management service or as a stand-alone service. Business analysis as a discipline has a heavy overlap with requirements analysis but focuses on identifying the changes to an organization that are required for it to achieve strategic goals. These changes include changes to strategies, structures, policies, processes, and information systems.
Examples of business analysis services that NewGen MC delivers include:
- Enterprise analysis or company analysis
Focuses on understanding the needs of the business as a whole, its strategic direction, and identifying initiatives that will allow a business to meet those strategic goals. - Requirements planning and management
Involves planning the requirements development process, determining which requirements are the highest priority for implementation, and managing change. - Requirements elicitation
Describes techniques for collecting requirements from stakeholders in a project. - Requirements analysis
Describes how to develop and specify requirements in enough detail to allow them to be successfully implemented by a project team. - Requirements communication
Describes techniques for ensuring that stakeholders have a shared understanding of the requirements and how they will be implemented. - Solution assessment and validation
Describes how the business analyst can verify the correctness of a proposed solution, how to support the implementation of a solution, and how to assess possible shortcomings in the implementation.
NewGen also offers services within the software development space and is thus able to offer the services of: IT Business Analysts, Technical Business Analysts, or Systems Analysts, as well.
Ultimately the role of a business analyst is to:
- Reduce waste
- Create solutions
- Complete projects on time
- Improve efficiency
- Document the right requirements
As such NewGen utilizes various techniques available to Business analysts to achieve this, these include:
- PESTLE
- MOST
- SWOT
- CATWOE and
- De Bono 6Ha