September Chapter Event - Kitty Hass
Breakthrough Business Analysis - Implementing and Sustaining a Value-Based BA Practice
Value-based business analysis centers on strategy execution, world-class enterprise capabilities, and delivery of innovative products and services. It is very different from what we think of as requirements analysis, or typical business analysis activities defining and managing requirements.
Sometimes referred to as enterprise business analysis, value-based BA practices demand more advanced methods that embrace complexity, adaptive change, shared leadership, value creation, and innovation. Higher BA maturity levels are directly correlated to more effective business alignment of projects, higher quality business solutions, increased customer value, increased creativity and innovation, and an increase in the business benefits that result from implementation of new business solutions. Value-based BA practices focus on several areas that have been woefully inadequate in managing business change initiatives:
- Methods and tools that are lean and iterative to accelerate delivery of value
- Leadership that welcomes diversity of perspectives and fosters experimentation, creativity, disruptive change, breakthrough processes and products
- Teams that are expert, collaborative, and high performing
- Thinking that is global, holistic and strategic, and leverages complexity to cultivate creativity
- Solutions that are innovative and competitive
- Decision making that is based on value to customers and wealth to bottom the line
Learning Objectives:
- Examine the BA Practice Implementation Framework to determine if your organization is ready for Value-based Business Analysis
- Discover what it looks like to run your BA practice like a business
- Determine how to:
- Change the way we do projects
- Execute well-planned strategic communications
- Take your BA team from good to great
Speaker BIO - Kitty is a recognized thought leader in the Business Analysis profession, a prominent keynote presenter at industry and corporate conferences, author, consultant, and expert facilitator. She is the president of KHass and Associates, Inc., a consulting practice specializing in strategic business practices, including enterprise business analysis, complex project management, and strategy execution through portfolio management. Her expertise includes implementing and managing PMOs and BACOEs, managing large complex programs, and leading groundbreaking PM and BA assessments.
Kitty has served as an IIBA Director since 2008 and is Vice-chair of the Board. Kitty has served as the Chair of the IIBA Nominations Committee, Chapter Governance Committee and Chapter Council, and was member of the BABOK ver. 2.0 Committee, contributing to several chapters and leading the authorship of the Enterprise Analysis chapter.
Kitty is a member of the Capella University IT Advisory Council, developer and Instructor for the Villanova University Mastering Business Analysis Online Certificate Program, member of the University of California, Irvine Extension Business Analyst Certificate Advisory Board, and founding member of the Business Analysis Leadership Consortium.
Kitty has authored numerous white papers and articles on leading edge PM/BA practices, the acclaimed series entitled, Business Analysis Essential Library, a compilation of six titles on critical BA practices, the PMI 2009 Book of the Year, Managing Project Complexity - A New Model, and The Enterprise Business Analyst, Developing Creative Solutions to Complex Business Problems. Look for her new book to be published later this year, Breakthrough Business Analysis, Implementing and Sustaining a Value-based BA Practice.