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Business analysis (IT operations)

Business analysis involves understanding the business needs and translating those requirements into solutions through detailed analysis and feedback.

Quoted from the UK GDaD PCF.

Levels

1. Awareness

You can:

  • investigate problems and opportunities in existing processes, and contribute to recommending solutions
2. Working

You can:

  • investigate problems and opportunities in existing processes, and contribute to recommending solutions
  • work with stakeholders to identify objectives and potential benefits
3. Practitioner

You can:

  • lead investigative work into problems and opportunities in existing processes
  • lead the collection of information and creation of recommendations for improvements
  • absorb large amounts of conflicting information and use it to produce solutions
4. Expert

You can:

  • direct business analysis, including the collection of information and evidence and the identification of problems and opportunities
  • ensure that recommendations fit with strategic business objectives
  • communicate recommendations persuasively to important stakeholders
  • identify the simplest of a variety of approaches

Contains public sector information from the UK Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (https://understand-digital-data-roles-skills.service.gov.uk/), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright.

Closest ESCO skills

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Role levels that expect this skill

Role levelRoleBandExpected level
IT service analystIT service manager4Awareness
IT service managerIT service manager6Working
Senior IT service managerIT service manager7Practitioner
Head of IT service managementIT service manager8bPractitioner