From the course: Business Analysis Foundations: Competencies

Unlock this course with a free trial

Join today to access over 25,300 courses taught by industry experts.

Innovation skills for business analysts

Innovation skills for business analysts

- Innovation is all about taking new ideas and making them useful and valuable to users. Brady the BA hears this and thinks, wait a minute that's what I do. I take ideas usually about systems and processes and turn them into implemented solutions that are useful and valuable. BAs help organizations with changing from a current to a future state and making the future state valuable. We help define and implement new solutions or changes to solutions, and they absolutely better be valuable and useful. Without the solutions being valuable and useful we have simply built something that users don't want or may even be worse than before. This means that BAs are the link to making sure what's built is useful. So that's right, being a BA is all about innovation. Brady's onto something here. Understanding how innovation happens is a key component to the role. Brady has been thinking a lot about actions and behaviors of BAs and…

Contents