BAP July 17 – 28, 2017
Business analysis is an important discipline in projects and organizations. Many organizations are increasingly embracing business analysis as a technique for uncovering business requirements and problem solving.
The Business Analyst Program (BAP) is a training intervention designed for employees performing strategic business functions within organisations. Strategic functions such as: business development, sales and client engagement, corporate strategy, human resource management, financial management and control etc. The program’s modules were carefully crafted from a bouquet of learning areas typically used in training business analysts at global management consulting firms/practices.
The training program is designed to enhance the business analytical skills of participants – potentially improving their functional competences and deepen their ability to analyse and add value in their respective industries. The programme focuses on 7 business analytical and management courses, outlined below.
The programme will also grant participants access to real-life consulting projects – using standard problem-solving and value adding methodologies – to existing clients and organisations. This approach will enhance the relevance and application of the entire training programme.
Intended Audience
This course is designed for employees performing strategic business functions within organisations. Strategic functions such as: business development, sales and client engagement, corporate strategy, human resource management, financial management and control, project managers, product managers, or any other strategic functions.
Modules to be Covered Include
- Thinking (analytical, critical and strategic) and Problem Solving
- Business Analysis and Introduction to Basic Finance
- Business Communication and Documentation
- Business Strategy – Strategic Imperatives, Marketing and Operations
- Digital and Office Tools – Digital Media, Microsoft Office Tools, Other work and collaborative tools (Cloud and Social)
- Local and Global Awareness – Macro-economic, Business-Sociology and Geo-politics
- Personal and Organizational Leadership
Methods of Delivery
- Classroom Lectures and Presentations
- Working on real-life consulting projects [Under confidential clauses]
- Interactive sessions – group work, watching investigative and relevant
- business documentaries
Learning Objectives
- How to conduct market and industry assessment – market sizing, customer/market segmentation, competitive landscape assessment, business trends analysis, Using Potter’s 5 and value chain analysis.
- How to write and prepare professional and contemporary documents – logic and structure in thinking and writig, excelent formatting of documents in Microsoft Office – Word, PowerPoint and Excel – using clear illustrations and animation. Business documents – writing – emails – proposals, meeting notes and reports.
- Strategic Planning and Documentation – Writing business cases, plans and business model canvas.
- How to conduct current state assessments for business and using strategic planning to define future state.
- How to build simple models for financially evaluating opportunities – simple financial models.
- Use of appropriate frameworks to execute the above such as – MECE (By Mckinsey), SWOT Analysis Matrix, Decision Trees, Cost Benefit Analysis, PESTLE Analysis etc.
- Personal Development – Learning to self-start a personal development programme in today’s knowledge economy – knowing how and what to read that will optimise knowldge and skill acquisition.
- Research – Learning how to conduct primary and secondary research – documenting appropriately for decision making.
Date: July 17 – 28, 2017.
Time: 8:30am – 12.30pm ( Allowing Participants to go back to work after class)Duration of Training: 2 Working Weeks
Venue: 1st Chancery House, No 5, C&I Leasing Street, Lekki Phase 1, LagosCourse Fee: N250,000 per participant. (Fee includes breakfast, lunch, course materials and certificate.)
For registration and enquiries please call: Ayo on 0803 2469393 or 0908 6317559