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72 Essential Tools for Success
James Cadle, Debra Paul and Paul Turner
Business Analysis is the discipline of identifying business needs and formulating workable solutions to business problems. The development of business analysis as a profession has extended the role and responsibilities of the business analyst who now needs the widest possible array of knowledge, skills and tools to be able to use each when and where it is needed. This excellent book provides a comprehensive single source of 72 possible techniques and applies them within a framework of stages.
72 key techniques
Practical advice to suit all situations
Of huge benefit to business analysts and managers
Of great value to students of information systems and business strategy

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
James Cadle has been involved in the field of business systems for over thirty years. Debra Paul jointly edited the best-selling BCS publication Business Analysis (2006). Paul Turner specialises in the provision of training and consultancy in the areas of Business
Analysis and Business Change.

James Archer
Business Analyst of the Year 2009

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A master class in linking theory to practice. Full of tips and examples that will lead to a significant improvement in the quality of Business
Analysis. Put your name in this book before someone
‘borrows it’!

Cadle, Paul, Turner

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