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BABOK Guide®: Global Standards for Business Analysis

What is the BABOK® Guide? The ever-evolving business world requires reliable guidelines to assess and maximize corporate productivity. Thankfully, the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®) created and maintains the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK) Guide — an indispensable reference that is widely regarded as a gold standard in business analysis. It’s essential for …

How to Use the BABOK Guide to Create an Effective Study Plan

How to Use the BABOK Guide to Create an Effective Study Plan

To advance your business analysis career through professional certifications like the CBAP, CCBA, and ECBA and increase your success at passing the certification exam, it is best to create a personal study plan that incorporates the BABOK® Guide knowledge area concepts, tasks, techniques,  practice exam question, study aides (purchased or self-created), and time management tools …

BABOK vs. PMBOK Guide: What’s the Difference?

BABOK vs PMBOK Guide: What’s the Difference?

With more than 174,727 business analysts in the United States alone, there’s bound to be a plethora of opinions about how to analyze operations and steer companies toward success. In some ways, PMI, BABOK, and PMBOK unite many of the best practices that analysts have found successful — putting them into guides that any analyst …

Top Business Trends to Watch for in 2023

Top Business Trends to Watch for in 2023

By Andrea Brockmeier, Jason Cassidy, Ken Crawshaw, Amy Farber, Susan Heidorn, Norman Kennedy, Jose Marcial Portilla, and Mike Stuedemann This past year has been a bit of a respite from the chaos of the last couple of years as many people have settled into working from home, in the office, or some combination. We seem …

What is Business Agility? | Agile Business Process

Agile Business Process: What is Business Agility?

The organizational alignment of leadership, culture, and strategy, focusing on the value provided to stakeholders, is termed “business agility” or “organizational agility.” With change constant in almost every industry, the organization that can quickly adapt to meet changes while still bringing value to stakeholders is positioned for long-term success. On this page: What is Business …

Implementing Strategies for Organizational Change Management

Implementing Strategies for Organizational Change Management

One reliable thing about the business world is it’s constantly in flux. Organizational leaders must be adaptable and know how to implement changes affecting their operations, products, and employees, often with limited time. This flexibility is what keeps them and their organization competitive. Regardless of the reason for the change, whether it’s related to new …

Facilitating vs. Leading

Facilitating vs. Leading

When working with others in a team meeting, how often are you leading the meeting? How often are you facilitating the meeting? What is the difference? Does it matter? Consider the scenarios below in which Leticia and her team are meeting to discuss a new project. Scenario #1 Leticia: OK team, what is our plan…how …

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Top 10 Business Trends to Watch for in 2022

While 2021 has been better in many ways than 2020, it doesn’t feel much more predictable. Yet, at Educate 360 we have identified the top business trends we are seeing and expect organizations to continue experiencing in Project Management, Business Analysis, Agile, Data Science, and Leadership in the year ahead. Overall, the theme of working …

Business Relationships

An Intro into the World of Business Relationship Management, Part 4: A Continued Review into BRM

We are on the last leg of our four-part series. In our previous BRM blogs, we provided you with a summary overview of BRM, BRMP®, and BRM Institute®. We then followed with more detailed information about the BRM role and the BRMP®. This final blog provides additional information to round out what we provided you regarding …

Business Relationship Management

An Intro into the World of Business Relationship Management, Part 3: What is BRMP and How Do I Get Certified?

We are on the third leg of our four-part series. In our previous Business Relationship Management blogs, we provided you with a summary overview of BRM, BRMP®, and BRM Institute. We then followed with more detailed information about the BRM role and its organizational value. Today, we will take you to the world of the BRMP — …