Business Analysis Communities & Resources
Communities IIBA IIBA Chapters IIBA South Africa IIBA Business Analytics Special Interest Group (LinkedIn) IIBA CBAP Group (linkedIn) Resources: Bridging the Gap: https://www.bridging-the-gap.com/ BA Times: https://www.batimes.com/ BA Excellence BABOK Study Group Modern Analyst: https://www.modernanalyst.com/ 5W-1H: https://joenewbert.com/5w-1h/ Thought leaders Angie Doyle Adriaan Reed Edward Ngubane Joe Newbert Paula Bell Ryan Folster Thsepo Matjila Paul Benn Jared Gorai Lucy Davies Oluwakorede Asuni […]
A thing or two about vanity metrics
Vanity metrics mean or measure nothing. Well, except to stoke ego of those reporting these vain metrics or used to hide a problem. Whilst saying your company moved goods worth US$ 6Billion in the first quarter of 2020, sounds good to the ears, it really doesn’t say much. Except, if your shareholders have invested in […]
What if we could all be design thinkers?
Yep! That is possible. We would be doing what we are ding today in our different teams within the delivery pipeline, except that: We would be thinking more about the customer than our egos or what we believe to be smart; We would meet with real users (customers) – who have bought is using or […]
Design thinking is about the customer, not about design for its own sake
Yep! Design thinking may have been originally gifted to the world by industrial design firm Ideo*, **, today design thinking is as much about the design as solution architecture is about designing structures. Design thinking is an iterative process, that saves businesses from themselves and lets them interact with their customers before drawing the first […]
UX thought leaders: Olu’s list
In no particular order IDEO – https://www.ideo.com/ Interaction Design – https://www.interaction-design.org/literature Swathy Ranjendran – https://www.swathyrajendran.com/ Usman Abiola – https://www.crunchbase.com/person/usman-abiola
Who are and what do business analysts do (vLearnHQ Office Hour Recorded Live 15Feb2020)
Burna walking in path paved by Fela Anikulapo Kuti?
Like i said most of Burna’s hits are songs he sampled, educate yourself pic.twitter.com/Pl6DMyEXVs — prettyboy$po (@Kinyels) February 12, 2020 Artists copy, great artists steal – Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson)
UX
UX is the envelope with which products are delivered. Excellent UX is the package in which customer needs are met, on time, in place, and as expected. UX is how the customer experiences the product or service. The entire journey from discovery to consumption to post consumption. Brilliant UX includes brilliant UI, making the product […]
DiscourseWednesday: Attaining technological singularity & the brands of the future
Technological Singularity – is a hypothetical point in the future when technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unfathomable changes to human civilization (Wikipedia). Many envisage this time as one that will be similar to those depicted in the terminator movies (sadly this author didn’t see any of those movies and this may partly be responsible […]
What do you truly desire!
