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KS: Looks good to me :)
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= FRONT END ANALYSIS PHASE = **AS IT IS GOING TO BE SUBMITTED:** Please apply any suggested revisions to the portion below (make revisions by end of day today and I will post before I go to bed tonight.) You can reference the original submissions by each of us further down on this page. There wasn't really a need to make many revisions as this was pretty straight forward. However, do give it a once over for grammar please. (LB on 9/21 @ 4pm EST) = ** BUSINESS ANALYSI ****S **=

== BUSINESS ANALYSIS (Everyone's Submissions are posted below)==
 * What is it? ** Business Analysis is the process of identifying and clarifying primary organizational goals, targets or needs.
 * Why is this type of analysis important? ** Business analysis reveals what is important to the organization: its priorities, targets and concerns. There are two main reasons a business analysis is important. The analysis highlights the goals or drivers for the organization, and makes clear what matters to the organization and what does not. Secondly, the business analysis determines what performance issues are vital and how to allocate resources efficiently.
 * What are the major objectives of this analysis? ** The objective of a business analysis is to establish a communication between the analyst and the client allowing for a sound plan to be developed in order to improve the business. In other words, in the business analysis phase the analyst translates what a business needs by defining goals and objectives and identifying opportunities in order to achieve measurable and attainable strategic goals.
 * How is it similar AND different to other analysis? ** All of the analyses include some sort of observation, interviewing and data collection for use in the analysis. Each analysis builds on the previous analysis in determining implementation for performance improvement. Differences are the foci of the analyses. Business analysis focuses on organizational goals; performance analysis focuses on relationships; gap analysis focuses on the difference in current and desired performances; and the cause analysis focuses on why there is a gap.
 * If there was only one thing you could do related to this analysis, what would it be? ** In the process of business analysis, the one thing that must be performed is to identify how the business goals align to the client's business. This comes from understanding the client's organization, and how goals are seen from the following vantage points – externally, economically, strategically, the customer's standpoint, product positioning, process and internal to the organization.

**What is it?** (KS) Business Analysis is the process of identifying and clarifying primary organizational goals, targets or needs. (KS)

**Why is this type of analysis important?** (KS) Business analysis reveals what is important to the organization: its priorities, targets and concerns. There are two main reasons the business analysis is important. The analysis highlights the goals, which are drivers for the organization, and makes clear what matters to the organzation does and what does not. Secondly, the business analysis determines what performance issues are vital and how to allocate resources efficiently. (KS)

**What are the major objectives of this analysis?** (LB) The objective of a business analysis is to establish a communication between the analyst and the client allowing for a sound plan to be developed in order to improve the business. In other words, in the business analysis phase the analyst translates what a business needs by defining goals and objectives and identifying opportunities in order to achieve measurable and attainable strategic goals (LB).

**How is it similar AND different to other analysis?** (LG) All of the analyses include some sort of observation, interviewing and data collection for use in the analysis. Each analysis builds on the previous analysis in determining implementation for performance improvement. Differences are the foci of the analyses: business analysis focuses on organizational goals; performance analysis focuses on relationships; gap analysis focuses on the difference in current and desired performances; and the cause analysis focuses on why there is a gap. (LG)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**If there was only one thing you could do related to this analysis, what would it be?** (GM) The one thing that must be performed with regards to business analysis is to identify how the business goals align to the client's business. This comes from understanding the client's organization, and how goals are seen from the following vantage pointsExternally Economically Strategically From the customer's standpoint Product positioning Process

AS IT IS GOING TO BE SUBMITTED: Please apply any suggested revisions to the portion below.
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 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">What is it? **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> Business Analysis is the process of identifying and clarifying primary organizational goals, targets or needs.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Why is this type of analysis important? **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> Business analysis reveals what is important to the organization: its priorities, targets and concerns. There are two main reasons a business analysis is important. The analysis highlights the goals, which are drivers for the organization, and makes clear what matters to the organization does and what does not. Secondly, the business analysis determines what performance issues are vital and how to allocate resources efficiently.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">What are the major objectives of this analysis? **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> The objective of a business analysis is to establish a communication between the analyst and the client allowing for a sound plan to be developed in order to improve the business. In other words, in the business analysis phase the analyst translates what a business needs by defining goals and objectives and identifying opportunities in order to achieve measurable and attainable strategic goals.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">How is it similar AND different to other analysis? **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> All of the analyses include some sort of observation, interviewing and data collection for use in the analysis. Each analysis builds on the previous analysis in determining implementation for performance improvement. Differences are the foci of the analyses: business analysis focuses on organizational goals; performance analysis focuses on relationships; gap analysis focuses on the difference in current and desired performances; and the cause analysis focuses on why there is a gap.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">If there was only one thing you could do related to this analysis, what would it be? **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> In the process of business analysis, the one thing that must be performed is to identify how the business goals align to the client's business. This comes from understanding the client's organization, and how goals are seen from the following vantage points – externally, economically, strategically, the customer's standpoint, product positioning, process and internal to the organization.