Course description
BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Change
TheBCSCertificate in Business Change online training course teaches you the processes and techniques used to deliver business change and helps you gain an entry-level qualification in Business Change. You'll develop essential skills and knowledge to support business change programmes within your business. You will learn how to design business changes effectively, including organising information, people, technology, and process aspects.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
The foundation certificate is ideal for individuals who want to develop a deep understanding of the processes, framework, and techniques required to implement successful business change.
This course would also benefitBusiness Analysts, Business Managers and members of their team, and Business Change Managers and Project Managers.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Accreditation: BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT
You'll gain a broad understanding ofbusiness change, including:
- Principles, processes, roles, and approaches.
- How to drive business change using information technology.
- How to align the organisation with external and internal influences.
- How to implement business change effectively.
Learning Outcomes
This training course will help you demonstrate an understanding of Business Change in the following areas:
- Business Change Principles
- Business Alignment
- Business Improvement Definition
- Business Change Design and Development
- Business Change Implementation
- Benefits Management and Realisation
Training Course Content
Business Change Principles (5%)
- Explain the degrees of business change
- Venkatraman's Business Transformation Model
- Describe the business change lifecycle
Business Alignment (20%)
Identify the three aspects specific to an organisation with which any business change must align:
The external environment
The enterprise architecture
Business Improvement Definition (25%)
Explain the applicability, advantages and disadvantages of the following investigationtechniques:
Interviews
Observation
Workshops
Scenarios
Surveys
Document analysis
- Describe the techniques to analyse the root causes of problems
- Fishbone (Ishikawa) diagrams
- Mind Maps
- Rich Pictures
Business Change Design and Development (20%)
- Describe the POPIT model (People, Organisation, Process, Information and Technology)
- People
- Identify the people related areas to consider within a Business
- Change initiative
- Describe types of organisational structures by
- function geography or product
- flat and tall structures
- centralised and decentralised
- Explain the impact of business change on team structures and roles
- Process
- Distinguish between a functional and process view
- Distinguish between current (as is) and improved (to be) business process models.
Business Change Implementation (15%)
- Explain business readiness assessment
- POPIT model
- Force Field Analysis
- Kotter approach to change
- Describe the process for implementing the solution
- Implementation approaches
Benefits Management and Realisation (15%)
- Describe benefits management process/lifecycle
- Describe benefits categories
- Describe the role of the Benefit Owner
- Describe the contents of the benefits plan
- Explain the purpose, conduct and outcomes of a benefits review
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Expenses
Tuition Fee: £ 549Inc. VAT
Continuing Studies
People who study BCS Business Analysis and Change Management training typically go into one of the following job roles:
- Junior Change Manager
- Trainee Change Management Consultant
- Change Manager
- Business Analysis
- Business Architect
- Enterprise Architect
- Consultant
- Project Management Team Member or Manager
- Strategy Planner, and more!
The average UK salary for a professional in the Business Analysis or Change Management sectors is £46,000 per annum.