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Business Analysis Certificate Program

Business Transformation Analysis

Program Overview

Business transformation goes beyond process analysis and considers all aspects of the business, such as:

• Business information
• Business events
• Socio-political considerations
• Business locations
• Business motivation

In most instances, business transformation also requires resolving significant conflict in priorities, perspectives, and personal interests. Further, successful business transformation requires:

• Identifying initiatives that can be reasonably managed as projects.
• An architecture that assures initiatives will ultimately integrate into a whole.
• Governance mechanisms to prioritize, select and oversee the various initiatives.

This curriculum equips those leading cross-enterprise or single-function mission-critical efforts with the process, knowledge, and skills necessary to deal with the complexity of major initiatives and surface ways to foster innovation. It also equips the participants to lead successful change by addressing the underlying organizational and individual behavior changes that inevitably must be made to ensure a successful business transformation.

This course will provide you with 7 Continuing Education Units, 70 PMI PDUs and 70 IIBA Training Hours.

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Who should attend?

• Graduates of the Business Process Analysis and Business Analysis Leadership certificate programs
• Analysts who lead, and are responsible for, the outcome of enterprise analysis/transformation projects
• Analysts and others who must handle political issues and diverse perspectives to arrive at a solution that is supported by all stakeholders and optimal for the business
• Internal and external consultants
• Those who are, or aspire to become, Business Transformation Analysts
• Business and Enterprise Architects
• Enterprise Portfolio Managers
• Change Agents

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Prerequisite(s):

• Certificate in Business Process Analysis
• Certificate in Business Analysis Leadership

How will this benefit you and your organization?

Graduates will be prepared to:

• Facilitate the development of a business strategy model to guide the organization toward its vision.
• Apply the process, knowledge and skills they have learned throughout the complete set of certificate programs and bring value to the business as they navigate complex, high-profile projects.
• Use models to elicit, document, and verify requirements in real time with business customers.
• Lead stakeholders to consensus on potentially conflicting issues so there can be a shared understanding.
• Create organizational readiness for change.
• Create a business case to support the organization's executives in making critical decisions on transformational efforts.
• Innovate to help the business reach its full potential by aligning work units with the higher levels of the organization, integrating work units across the organization, and optimizing individual work units.
• Receive a Master Certificate in Business Transformation Analysis.

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What topics are covered?

This curriculum equips attendees to:

• Develop business architectures, identify the portfolio of initiatives necessary to deliver the functional needs and establish the mechanisms necessary to govern and manage the initiatives.
• Work on projects that require an enterprise view of the business.
• Facilitate the development of a business strategy model to serve as the basis for alignment and integration of future initiatives.
• Facilitate the determination of functional needs (information, process, location, event, and socio-political) necessary to realize the overall business strategy.
• Define the strategy necessary to change the culture, organizational practices and behavior in order to make way for successful transformation

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Duration and Costs?

• Duration: 10 Days
• Cost: $7,500

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Course Summaries

View Syllabus (PDF | 41 KB)

Week 1

Course	Description	Length
Business Strategy Modeling and Advanced Business Case Development	Learn to facilitate the development and documentation of a business strategy model to guide the organization toward its vision. Includes creating a business case to support the organization's executives in making critical decisions on transformational efforts.	2 days
JDA Facilitation for Political or Complex Efforts	JDA SM - pronounced "jad" - is an instrumented, structured approach used to derive consensus among a variety of participants representing multiple, and potentially conflicting perspectives and needs. Includes detailed, hands-on training in planning, conducting, and documenting JDA sessions. Includes applied facilitation exercises where each participant has the opportunity to facilitate.	3 days

Week 2

Course	Description	Length
Modeling Other Business Aspects	Understand uses for, and basic concepts of, modeling other business aspects beyond business processes (i.e., business information, business events, business locations, and socio-political considerations).	2 days
Enterprise Architecture and Portfolio Management	Learn how the organization's business strategy drives decisions about the formation of enterprise architecture; the development of project portfolios; governance, integration and alignment of the efforts within the portfolio; and ultimately transformation of the business itself.	2 days
Change Agency	Business transformation efforts will fail without the willingness and commitment to change on the part of those affected. Covers the underlying changes required in environment and individual behavior to contribute to success of transformational efforts. Includes understanding how to create the most conducive environment for change.	1 day

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Registration Options

U.S.

Date	Location	Registration	More Info
October – November 2009 Week 1: October 5 - 9, 2009 Week 2: November 2 - 5, 2009	Atlanta	Register now	Overview
October – November 2010 Week 1: October 18 - 22, 2010 Week 2: November 15- 19, 2010	Atlanta	Register soon	Overview

International

Date	Location	Registration	More Info
October – November 2009 Week 1: October 5 - 9, 2009 Week 2: November 2 - 5, 2009	Atlanta	Register now	Overview
October – November 2010 Week 1: October 18 - 22, 2010 Week 2: November 15- 19, 2010	Atlanta	Register soon	Overview

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CONTACT INFORMATION

Office of Executive Programs
Terry College of Business
University of Georgia
Executive Education Center
in Atlanta
One Live Oak Center
3475 Lenox Road
Atlanta, GA 30326
404-842-4853
404-842-4848 (fax)
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PROGRAM MANAGER

Christina Allen
110 E. Clayton Street
Suite 602
706-425-3051
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