From the course: Strategic Business Analysis Essentials

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Partner for progress

Partner for progress

- Now, as a BA, you know how important stakeholders are. They're at the center of change and at the center of a solution. They are instrumental to help you build, validate and put into use an effective strategy. In the strategic business analysis world, building and developing relationships with stakeholders is even more important. Why is that? Well, because as strategy develops and shapes, you need people to make that change happen and put the new ways into action. Sure, you can plan for adapting how an organization operates and interacts, but it's the people in the organization that make it all happen. By establishing, working and committed relationships, BA can align and connect with decision makers to shape true and compelling strategy. That, and this is important, resonates. By securing buying from the impacted people who will be working with the new ways, the strategy that you lay out is not only achievable,…

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