The framework of this presentation will be around key topics of big picture thinking, shifting between strategic and operational thinking, overlaying this with business analysis practices and collaboration on steroids that create a recipe to ignite successful delivery in highly complex and enterprise-wide project environments.
This presentation is suitable for all levels of business analysts and even other disciples such as business architecture, project managers, change managers. The intent is to present content that enables senior people to think about how they could leverage off this presentation and give junior and intermediate skilled people the ability to have a will and desire to think about how they can move forward.
Key Takeaways
- Big picture thinking (based on the concept of systems thinking as thought in Executive Development Programmes).
- How to shift between Strategic and Operational thinking.
- Using skills from the BABOK and techniques to make it real and practical.
- Emphasizing the power of collaboration.
About the Speaker
Mohammed Khan is the Head of Business Analysis for a large JSE listed financial services organisation in South Africa. He is a business enthusiast by heart and is passionate about enabling people to achieve greatness.
He has engaged in multiple sectors and worked with people across Africa, Europe, Australia, United Kingdom and the USA.
As a specialist and generalist business analyst he has led large scale delivery with great success. Mohammed has also built business analysis capabilities from the ground up to having high performing teams that support an enterprise-wide portfolio.
Mohammed has led his team of Business Analysts to successfully achieve group scorecard initiatives for the last two consecutive years and wanted to share those learnings with his industry colleagues.
He currently holds 3 formal qualifications with his focal areas of specialisation in Information Systems, Operations Management and Strategy. He is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt practitioner, Certified Process Professional, IIBA certified Business Analyst, Design Thinker and Certified Business Architect. His last achievement was completing his Executive Development Programme with University of Cape Town.
An interesting fact about Mohammed is that he is a professional business coach and uses those same skills to coach and work with youth.