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My name is Oluwakorede Asuni – most people call me Olu’ and you may as well.

I work at the intersection of technology and society – helping businesses, non-profits and individuals craft and evolve their technology adoption (aka digital transformation) strategies.

For most of my career, I have worn multiple hats ranging from product manager, project/programme manager, business analyst and customer advocate.

I write regularly here, on facebook, twitter and on some of the most popular business analysis platforms out there. 

I hold the IIBA CBAPIIBA CPOAPMI PMP and ITIL Foundation, credentials. And I  recently completed an executive MBA at the University of Readings’ Henley Business School– where I my research explored Gamification for customer acquisition and retention in SMEs.

I publish a newsletter fortnightly, in which I explore thoughts, theories and developments across digital.

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Highlights

Check out some recent highlights  

Should you get a business analysis certification?

In this short video I go over questions as: What are the factors you should consider in deciding whether or not to get a business analysis certification?
What certifications are fit for you, depending on factors like, your objectives, your career path to this point, your plans for the future.

Fundamentals of business analysis

Who are business analysts and what do they do? What are the tools of their trade?
Where do they work?
And how do you get started as a business analyst?
I attempt answers to some of these questions in this video.

Agile in a waterfall world

Can strict waterfall co-habit with agile? For example, can a business with legacy processes transform or begin to transform to one that is responsive to the rapidly changing demands of the market?
If yes, what are the thoughts and principles that we need to embrace. In this article, I explore why and how this is possible.

Videos

A selection of videos from my YouTube Channel

Recent Blog Posts !

What value do business analysts bring?

In carrying out their duties, business analysts support businesses in clarifying their thoughts around key initiatives (sometimes even helping to determine if those key initiatives are required in the first place), devise a strategy for executing the initiative – including but not limited to identifying change management and transition needs that should be in place for the planned initiative to have a chance at succeeding – and articulate all of these in documents generally referred to as business requirements specification and known by variations of this name across different types of businesses. The majority of the time, this document details the boundaries of the initiative, identifies how the initiative connects with the business’ short to long-term strategies and the details of what needs to be built or procured in order to fulfil the needs of the initiative and invariably the needs of the business.

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Motivations for work: Often more than you think and not quite simple

In the beginning, I thought it was only about the money. In our hyper-capitalistic and materialistic world, where even the most basic materials (food, shelter, and mobility) all cost a dime or two – and add to that, the marketing industrial complex raising the art of signalling to the sky, further fuelling our need to fork out more money to procure not the most fundamental in form and function of the things that satisfy our basic needs, but the same things packaged in ways that signal to others that we know what is good we are better than them.

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