Systems Thinking - Practical Techniques for Business Agility
Please note the recording of this event will be available for IIBA members only.
About the Presentation
Systems Thinking: Practical BA Techniques for Business Agility The business environment is moving at a rapid pace. More than ever we need the ability to quickly sense and respond to change, and there is increasing focus on enabling agility within organisations.
Achieving agility can be tricky when working in large, seemingly bureaucratic, organisations with a whole legacy of technology, political and process issues that seemingly need resolving. With tricky stakeholders and conflicting perspectives, change initiatives stall and our organisations risk falling behind market and customer expectations. Business analysis is a crucial enabler that plays an important part in overcoming these issues and helping organisations strive towards achieving agility.
As practitioners we can draw techniques and approaches from the world of systems thinking to help us. In this practical session you will hear: - What systems thinking is, and how it can contribute towards business agility. - A practical set of systems thinking techniques that have direct applicability for BAs. - How systems thinking naturally fits with an agile BA mindset.
About the Speaker
Adrian Reed is a true advocate of the analysis profession. In his day job, he acts as Principal Consultant and Director at Blackmetric Business Solutions where he provides business analysis consultancy and training solutions to a range of clients in varying industries.
He is a Past President of the UK chapter of the IIBA® and he speaks internationally on topics relating to business analysis and business change. Adrian wrote the 2016 book ‘Be a Great Problem Solver… Now’ and the 2018 book ‘Business Analyst’.