Business Analysis - Goal of Business Analysis

Goal of Business Analysis

Ultimately, business analysis want to achieve the following outcomes:

  • Create solutions
  • Give enough tools for robust project management
  • Improve efficiency and reduce waste
  • Provide essential documentation, like requirements document, project initiation documents and others.

One way to assess these goals is to measure the return on investment (ROI) for all projects. According to Forrester Research, more than $100 billion is spent annually in the U.S. on custom and internally developed software projects. For all of these software development projects, keeping accurate data is important and business leaders are constantly asking for the return or ROI on a proposed project or at the conclusion of an active project. However, asking for the ROI without sufficient data of where value is created or destroyed may result with inaccurate projections.

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