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Role of O2I’s Analysts

The scope of Competitive Business Analysis is very vast. Business analysts have a tendency to specialize in one of the three distinct sets of activities, which constitute the scope of Competitive Business Analysis.

1. Strategist

In the modern business world organizations need to focus on strategic matters on a more or less continuous basis. Our business analysts who serve this need are adept in analyzing the strategic profile of the organization and its environment and in advising Senior Management on suitable policies and the effects of policy decisions.

2. Business Systems Developer

The strategic analysis may identify business problems, which will need to be solved by introducing changes within the organization. O2I’s business analysts contribute by analyzing objectives, processes and resources and providing suggestions for Business Process Redesign (BPR) or Business Process Improvements (BPI) that can be made.
Specific skills that these analysts possess are “soft skills” like knowledge of the business, stakeholder analysis and some “hard skills” like Business Process Modeling. This role demands an awareness of technology and its uses, all the same it is not an IT-centric position.

Three elements are crucial to this aspect of the competitive business analysis effort:

• The redesign of core business processes
• The application of enabling technologies to support the new core processes
• The management of organizational change
  This aspect of competitive business analysis is also called “Business Process Improvement” or “Re-engineering”.

3. IT Systems Developer

IT investments are generally very expensive and of critical and strategic importance. How to get the best return from these investments has been an enduring problem. Organizations often create a Business Analyst role to make a thorough Business Analysis to better understand and define the enterprise requirements from their IT systems. The role of an IT Systems Developer might overlap the role of a Business Systems Developer however the focus is always on the IT part of any change process. Often such a business analyst gets involved only when a case for change has been decided upon.

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