Business Analysis

ITIL® Foundation Question of the Week: IT Continuity Plan

September 14, 2017 Michael Caruso Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Preparing for ITIL® Foundation certification? Let’s flex those mental muscles with a quick quiz to help you get ready for exam day.

3 Steps for Implementing Business Analysis

July 12, 2016 Guest Authors Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Implementing business analysis (BA) in organizations needs to be done in a well-planned process. The three steps are contingent on the BA maturity of the organization, its vision for how BA will be used and the degree of executive sponsorship.

Q&A: The Impact of IIBA’s New BABOK Guide and PMI’s New Business Analysis for Practitioners Guide

August 13, 2015 Guest Authors Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

The release of both the IIBA’s A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge Guide v3 and the Project Management Institute’s Business Analysis for Practitioners has given business analysts a lot of information to process. To help make sense of things, Global Knowledge instructors Cheryl Lee and Adam McClellan joined forces to educate attendees on the differences between the two guides, how both guides compare to the previous version of the BABOK Guide, and where all this might be going.

Staying Ahead of Your Enemy (Part 2)

July 8, 2015 Michael Stierhoff Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Today or tomorrow, what is most likely to derail your organization or life? Among all the positive opportunities, where are things most likely to grow wrong if we’re not paying attention? If this one hasn’t been recently analyzed and if you haven’t done some strategic (i.e., data-driven) thinking around this question, it really should keep you up at night.

So You Want to Buy a Cloud

July 6, 2015 Mike Lewis Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Your application developers have been saying they can increase performance by moving your application to the cloud. Your boss is saying, “We should be doing some of this cloud thing I keep hearing about.” Your peers have moved at least one critical piece of information processing to a cloud services provider. Sound familiar? Today it seems everyone at every level begins or ends every conversation with the word “cloud.” So you think it might be time to buy a cloud, but where do you begin?