Professional Documents
Culture Documents
What are some of the challenges Business Agility is the ability of an In this paper, we will discuss the
that we face today? Uncertainty organization to respond rapidly reality of today’s business, typical
about the future and how to changes while minimizing misconceptions of agile, common
to respond, how to monitor disruption and enabling success barriers to agility, and how to
performance in a fast-changing for the organization. Sounds nice, utilize analysis to overcome
world, which opportunities but how do you do that without challenges and position your
to pursue to achieve positive ensuing absolute chaos? The organization for success.
performance, and how to deal answer: business analysis.
with the massive amount of data A Volatile Present
and get value from that data – Business analysis is the practice
these are just some of the most of enabling change in an Some industries, including
common challenges. enterprise by defining needs and manufacturing and IT, have
recommending solutions that always been volatile because
The rapid evolution of technology deliver value to stakeholders. of constant change in the
creates opportunities – as well Business analysis allows an technology involved in their core
as challenges – for traditional enterprise to articulate needs business. More traditionally
businesses. As a result, many and the rationale for change, stable industries include medical
organizations strive to adopt and to design and describe practices, insurance, and banking.
an agile approach to respond solutions that can deliver value. Companies in the latter, more
effectively to the ever-changing Good business analysis enables stable category have been slower
environment and to better meet an organization to be agile, to to change their services and
customer needs. But adopting respond well and rapidly to the solutions because, until recently,
agile is not the same as achieving changing environment, and to their customers didn’t demand
business agility. better meet customer needs. change.
Alison (Ali) Orr Cox has experience since the mid-1980s in various areas, including business analysis, project methodology
development and training, systems development (mainframe, client-server, and web), and telecommunications
management. Alison began her career in the financial services area, and then moved into systems development for
accounting systems. She has provided consulting and training in business analysis and project management for small
companies to Fortune 500 corporations worldwide and speaks Spanish fluently.
Alison is also a partner of TEMSS (Telecommunications Efficiency Management Strategies and Services), which provides
telecommunications efficiency auditing and billing analysis services to clients in all areas of business across the United
States. She completed her Master of Business Administration in MIS and Accounting from the University of Georgia. For
more information visit B2T Training website.