The Business Analyst & Small Business Consulting
The Client Performance Solutions’ management consulting training provides a business analyst with an opportunity to develop skills that will round out his core competencies and enable him to be a successful small business consultant.
Being an effective business analyst enables an individual to develop the skill to be able to quickly identify problems in an organization that are either hindering performance or putting the organization at risk of experiencing damaging future events. Those who have significant work experience in this area develop “pattern recognition,” which is the ability to detect how seemingly unrelated events or conditions within an organization can cause strategic or operations problems. Some of this skill is derived from tools that the business analyst users, but seeing hundreds of businesses with similar or related problems also enables him to detect the conditions quickly.
The CPS management consulting training provides the business analyst with skills in strategic planning, which provides a framework for determining the significance or importance of the problems identified during the business analysis process. It also provides an opportunity for problem prioritization, assigning appropriate individuals to actions required to solve the problems, and it creates an opportunity to decide if it is appropriate to even allocate resources for the problem resolution.
The management consulting training also informs the planner as to how to actually implement the required solutions. This requires a familiarity with the not only the tools available for implementation, but also how to motivate people/staff to make changes that they may otherwise avoid. It requires different types of skills than simply problem identification or business analysis.