All Business Analysts are Not Created Equal

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At a client meeting recently I was informed that the company had over 150 business analysts. Even the client’s business executives acknowledged this to be true. But that many business analysts suggests that these people are spending their time on efforts outside the realm of business analysis. Most IT organizations model the business analyst (BA) role around transactional or operational systems. Whether organizations buy packages or build code from scratch, business analysis skills are usually focused on system and process analysis. The majority of data issues within an operational system are data entry-related. The challenge in business analysis is to...

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