Enterprise and Strategic Analysis [ONLINE]

This course is designed to provide Business Analysts with the skills required for involvement in strategy development, pre-project activities, and developing and managing enterprise architecture.

This course is appropriate for experienced Business Analysts who are looking to formalize their experience through education as well as junior Business Analysts or those looking to enter the profession.

During this course you will learn the tasks and techniques outlined in the Enterprise Analysis and Solution Assessment and Validation Knowledge Areas within the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK®). Through discussions, examples and hands-on exercises, you will recognize business goals and objectives, identify business problem or opportunity, analyze business problems or opportunities, identify viable solutions to these problems or opportunities, evaluate to select the most optimal solution, prepare and defend a business case. In addition, you will prepare procurement documents including a request for proposal, receive and evaluation proposals based on defined decision criteria, assess organizational readiness, and apply data conversion strategy and mapping to existing data.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Participants will gain practical skills to:

• Discuss enterprise analysis tasks and techniques
• Analyze and document a business problem
• Devise a business case
• Contrast viable solutions against developed decision criteria
• List possible solutions approaches
• Evaluate causes through the application of problem analysis techniques
• Isolate major causes of business problem and where to focus resources
• List types of gap analyses
• Assess limitations through the creation of a gap analysis
• Recall the phases of the project life cycle
• Conduct a Strength Weakness Opportunity Threat (SWOT) analysis
• Appraise competitive intelligence through a benchmarking study
• Build on previously learned techniques to develop high level requirements for the business case
• Defend business case recommendations
• List the sections of an RFP
• Describe the steps in RFP development and vendor selection
• Apply data conversion strategy and mapping to existing data

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This course is intended for beginner and intermediate project managers across all industries.

LOGISTICS

This course will be delivered over four half-day sessions on April 9-10 & 16-17, 2026 from 8:30am to Noon Eastern (Toronto/New York) time.