Business Analysis in 2025: Beyond Requirements Gathering, a Strategic Driver Against Solucentrism
Solucentrism, as I define it, is an approach that consists of defining a problem based on a pre-existing technological solution, often bought off the shelf. It is a logic of solution before need, where one starts from a tool or a platform and then artificially creates a need that fits this imposed solution. In this…
Understand the importance of the strategy analysis knowledge area in a business analysis initiative.
Business analysis is an interesting practice, which opens doors to almost all areas. After having done 5 successive years in IT projects between 2017 and 2021, I had my first Marketing initiative. It was a commercial project, the ultimate objective of which was to increase the turnover of a Guard Services. In fact, the company…
UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFERENT GENERATIONS OF OUR WORLD
One of our interns was commissioned internally to design an advertisement for one of our services for young students. After conducting interviews with a sample of students who might be interested in this service, the intern produced a nice ad with an eye-catching graphic and one-line copy, followed by a link to a website as…
The speeches of the Fathers
My Father once told me: “Examine everything carefully, and retain what is good.” Since that day, I always examine everything I hear. This is perhaps why I am an Analyst by profession (Business Analyst). Certainly, there is annoying and sometimes surprising information in the old man’s speech, but in the middle, there are always inspiring…
Les discours des Pères
Mon Père m’a un jour dit: ”Examine toute chose avec soin, et retient ce qui est bon”. Depuis ce jour, j’examine toujours tout ce que j’entends. C’est peut être pourquoi je suis Analyste de profession (Analyste d’affaires). Certes, il y’a des informations énervantes et parfois étonnantes, dans le discours du vieux, mais au milieux, il…
