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Why did the disaster happen? A Root Cause Analysis (RCA) lesson for Business Analysts

Every solution begins with a problem or challenge. That’s where it all starts for the role of a Business Analyst.  Every problem has an underlying cause, if you believe in causality as opposed to the faith that everything is prefabricated, pre-planned. Exploring and understanding the root cause is a big piece of the work that

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The Business Analyst Mindset

To understand what I mean, take this example. An insurance company was unknowingly using wrong prices to value the policies over a period of time. Many months later, when they realised the error, they initiated a project to make up for the loss the Customers incurred. They hired a Business Analyst to analyse the historical

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It doesn’t matter how many Business Analysis techniques and tools you know, unless you know this….

  If you are a Michelin star chef entertaining the guests at a newly launched 7-star hotel with the most delicious sounding dish, but your food supplier provided you with inferior quality raw material for cooking, it’s 99% likely that the dish would go down the waste bin; it doesn’t matter how much technique and

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