Demystifying Strategic Thinking in Business Analysis

Nov 12, 2018

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One of my former business analysts on the team asked me this question recently; ‘I am really over being a BA. How do I move into strategy?’ I got to the realization that she was associating ‘strategy’ with a job title which consists of certain tasks. In my view, it appe...

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