Business Analysis Delivery

Whether you’re starting out or you’re already in the middle of something

RECOGNISED EXPERTS iN BUSINESS ANALYSIS

We’re a high profile team of doers & thought leaders

We’re recognised as the experts in business analysis. Good business analysis challenges thinking, influences decisions, and solves problems. This is what we do. We have proven expertise at scale, we’ve built, developed, and led teams of 300+ BAs across numerous Central Government and Higher Education organisations. Between us we’ve written and reviewed many of the ‘go to’ books for BCS, and developed the BA Apprenticeship Standard in England. We shaped the Business Analyst DDaT role in Central Government.

Agility led business analysis

Agile business analysis, centred around Minimum-Viable-Product and delivering value iteratively

Ambiguous upfront stuff

Shaping and scoping is our bread-&-butter; Pre-Discovery, Discovery, ITT/RFP

Drive clarity & decisions

Proactively use models and workshops to drive clarity and facilitate decision making

Processes that makes sense

Rigorous, impactful and easy to understand as-is/to-be process modelling

User centricity is at our core

User centred by default; user journey mapping, user personas

Organisational needs

Embrace understanding constraints & business rules to shape design choices/decisions

Data is key

Understand & map data flow at a conceptual level using Class Diagrams

Test and learn at every stage

We test the riskiest assumptions first, ensuring we continually learn as we go

Analysis beyond projects

Strategic analysis: Target Operating Models, Wardely and Business Capability Maps

Benefits of our Service

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Focus on triangulation of insights between data/information, process and people

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Identify business improvements & efficiencies, measure through benefits realisation & dependencies

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Increased organisational efficiency, improved productivity, and reduced costs

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Pragmatic and impartial external challenge ensuring ideas and perspectives are considered

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Provides clarity to speed up and deliver effective decision making

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Helps develop the internal skills and reputation of your business analysis profession

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Products, Services, and Solutions delivered meet user, organisational, compliance, and policy needs

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Ensures policy, organisational, and legislative constraints are assessed, challenged, and considered

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Positions your business analysis delivery in an Agile & UCD world

Got a Question?

Answers to some common questions we get asked…

Either get in touch via the site, or feel free to reach out to Jamie Toyne, our CEO over e-mail or LinkedIn.

Head over to our Frameworks area in the first instance, here you can find all of the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) frameworks we’re on, as well as numerous others.

Check out our Frameworks area, here you can find all of the procurement frameworks we’re currently on. Alternatively get in touch if you want to chat through or discuss other options.

Absolutely! We provide coaching and mentoring to established teams, as well as can help introduce Product thinking into organisations. If you’re looking to develop a steady talent pipeline of new product folk, check out our Talent Herd service.

Short answer is yes! But not just the Service Standard, we also consider and work to the Technology Code of Practice too.

Yes, definitely. Our Product Delivery is offered to all sectors. Including Higher Education, Financial Services, Local Authorities, Insurance, Retail/eCommerce, and everything else in-between.

All of them! SFIA Levels 3 to 7, Associate through to Head of and Director of.

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Recognised as the experts in Business Analysis.

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