Imagine you have a team
of highly effective business analysts, who are capable of engaging with
your senior stakeholders as well as your operational staff:
• They understand the full vision of developing your organisations’
capabilities, and what you need of them
• They organise themselves
in the best way to achieve that
• They adopt tools and techniques
uniquely appropriate to your needs
• They have the right training
and support, at the right time
• They lead and conduct themselves in
a way that fits with your organisation
… ensuring your business
change initiatives really do deliver the benefits you had in mind.
You don’t have to imagine this. The answer lies in understanding and
clearing all the problems that can get in the way of your business
analysts being really effective; of making sure everything lines up and
your investment in people and processes adds value to your projects.
Equinox Audit starts with a comprehensive assessment. We work alongside
your key people: your main business stakeholders, line management, and
business analysis team. By doing this we get a good understanding of
your needs and issues.
We know that no two organisations are
the same, and our approach is designed to develop and apply best
practice principles, processes and standards that are uniquely
appropriate to your business.
An assessment will expose the
issues, which can include inconsistencies within the delivery of
analysis services, training needs, matching business analyst
capabilities to the project, and problems recruiting or retaining the
right people.
From the assessment stage we might recommend adjusting processes or
standards to improve service delivery, or training to help take skills
and capabilities to the right level to achieve:
• An increase in the
number of successful projects
• Analysis services that are delivered
at a consistent level of quality
• Visible and more manageable
performance.
Effectively implementing new processes or increasing skills can have its
own challenges and take time, so we can also work alongside you to make sure
that the transition is smooth, and improvements will be both effective and
long-lasting.
Once those improvements are fully operational and become part of your
process, you can get us back in to take a fresh look. We can measure the
improvements in the quality of service delivery. Or as your business grows
and changes you may want to know how the analysis process needs to evolve to
meet new demands.
The Business Analysis Audit is intended to establish a range of
assessments, from “once over lightly” to more serious in-depth ones –
such as assessing the analysis process or individual competencies.