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National Certificate in Business Analysis
In the modern business environment – characterized by a high level of complexity and a demand for efficiency – many businesses recognize the importance of effective systems for elevating the business and addressing business needs. This accounts for the increasing demand for business analysts who are able to analyze critical problems and challenges within organizations and develop efficient, technology-driven solutions and systems to address them.
This National Certificate will take you through the business analysis process – from A to Z – empowering you so that you are able to develop innovative solutions that will give your business a competitive advantage.
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Good business begins with having all the right tools for success.
This 15-month National Certificate in Business Analysis is designed to equip you with the skills you need to analyze a business’s context, identify problems or opportunities, and develop innovative, technology-based systems and solutions to address or capitalize on them.
What you’ll learn
- Conduct a thorough business analysis to identify areas for improvement.
- Identify and document user requirements within the business.
- Develop an innovative and unique solution (a ‘business case’) based on your analyses.
- Outline the functional specifications of a systems-based solution.
- Monitor the implementation of the solution to ensure quality and efficiency throughout the project lifecycle
Who Should Take This Course?
- Learners and working professionals with a basic understanding of Information Systems and IT who would like to equip themselves with practical methods to analyze a business’s context, identify problems or opportunities, and develop innovative information systems to solve identified problems or opportunities.
What you need
- Software requirement: MS Word and Excel (or equivalents)
- Hardware: Standard requirements
Red & Yellow courses are made to future-proof your career
Our courses are designed to accelerate opportunities and give a boost to your CV. Top businesses across industries recognise Red & Yellow graduates as having the practical skills and the theoretical background to hit the ground running with confidence and creative flair.
Course curriculum:
Introduction To Business Analysis
- You will learn all about the business analysis process
- You will learn how to analyze the business environment to identify business needs, problems, or opportunities.
- You will learn how to perform a gap analysis, determine the most appropriate solution, define and document the project scope, develop a business case, and obtain sign-off from stakeholders.
- You will also be introduced to the concept of ethics and the implications of professional conduct in the modern business environment.
Supporting Effective Business Analysis
- You will learn all about the processes that support effective business analysis.
- This includes a thorough exploration of stakeholder analysis and management, planning for business analysis, project management, risk management, requirements management, effective communication, problem-solving techniques, and error detection.
- This module will help you in ensuring that your work as a business analyst is informed and effective.
Determining, Managing, And Communicating Requirements
- You will learn how to gather information from stakeholders with the purpose of identifying the requirements that are needed to implement the solution.
- ‘Requirements’ mainly refers to what the solution must do, i.e., the functions it will perform.
- Requirements can also refer to aspects such as organization structure, processes, IT systems, the solution’s quality, and usability.
- Finally, we delve into getting stakeholder approval of the requirements and drawing up all the necessary requirements documentation.
Designing And Delivering Information Systems
- This module focuses on information systems.
- It includes an exploration of the components of a system, the role of systems thinking in business analysis, and the Systems Development Lifecycle.
- The module will equip you with all the information you need to perform your role as a business analyst in the context of developing information systems that meet the business’s needs.
- From analyzing existing systems, designing custom systems, acquiring the necessary hardware and software and implementing roll-outs, monitoring the system’s performance to conducting post-implementation reviews – this module ensures that you are able to support system development from start to finish
Meet your team:
This course was created by, and benefits from, our full-time lecturers’ years of experience in the field – both in lecturing and in industry. They know how to nurture talent and bring out the best in students, resulting in many award-wins over the years.
About Red & Yellow
Creative thinking is the most important skill. Artificial Intelligence and robots are going to replace some of the jobs we know today.
Red & Yellow is the business school where talented people go to develop the career skills they need to thrive in this digital world.
R&Y unlocks creative thinking to build brilliant careers and organisations using Commercial Logic and Creative Magic.
We are vision-led and values-driven and we are developing the next generation of changemakers, creators and innovators.
We believe creative thinking is the most important skill of the future and it must be supported by uniquely human abilities such as leadership, adaptability and social intelligence.
We are a Creative School of Business that provides you with the commercial logic to grow successful organisations and more importantly the creative magic to set them apart.
We are teaching the great creators, inventors, leaders and entrepreneurs for the 21st Century.
We will be the most creative business school in the world.
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Your brand does not exist in a vacuum. There are multiple factors affecting your business right at this very moment. Your business has control over some of these elements, while it has no control over others.
Micro factors are mostly internal elements or factors that you and your business have some control over, such as your brand, your brand or product’s unique selling point (USP), and any digital offerings.
It should be noted that, while you have some control over micro factors that affect your business, these are informed by macro factors. It is important to keep this in mind when you are doing any kind of strategic planning, or simply day-to-day brand management. You could say that macro factors are the ‘bigger picture’, while micro factors are the details. You need to keep an eye on the bigger picture without losing sight of the details, and vice versa.
Your company or business is the factor that you have the most control over. You decide how the brand comes across to the world – your brand identity.
You can control what you present to the world, to a degree. Unfortunately, there is little you can do about how the world sees you.
Macro factors are aspects that are beyond your business’s control. Macro factors are the opportunities as well as the threats to your business.
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