Business and data analysis is the discipline of identifying business needs and determining solutions to business issues, questions, opportunities, and/or problems. It consists of enterprise analysis, requirements analysis, and data analysis, plus documenting and communicating the solution and necessary changes to impacted policies and processes.
Procept consultants can help you identify and analyze your business problems and opportunities; review and document business processes; gather, document and analyze requirements; assess your data management processes and policies; assess and select solutions to these problems; and any resulting support project implementations.
Below are additional details on some of these offerings.
Procept's business analysis methodology development was designed to help organizations establish a BA Centre of Excellence that provides guidance on how gathering and documenting requirements and business processes is best to be performed within an organization. The standard package includes developing high-level methodologies and templates for:
The major part of the methodology development is done in facilitated sessions with your staff. Each area listed above typically requires three days plus an additional three days for preparing and finalizing our report. The typical duration of this type of consulting engagement is fifteen business days, or three work weeks.
The above sections can also be substituted by other areas of greater concern for an increased ROI on this project.
The deliverables for this work are high-level processes and templates that can be used to perform essential aspects of business analysis work.
For this consulting offering, Procept works with clients to prepare a compelling business case using the following approach:
Procept ensures that the recommended solution addresses the business problem and is cost justifiable. Procept also validates other associated benefits from implementing its recommendations including compliance, litigation, support for current and future technologies, and improvements to productivity.
Using our deep understanding of requirements engineering best practices, Procept has helped many organizations learn to improve how they define new projects.
Projects exist to obtain the business benefits envisioned in their business cases so our approach always starts with a business case that defines the financial and non-financial objectives of a project and any relevant constraints. We then help our clients through identifying and documenting business requirements tied to each project objective. By tying requirements to specific business case objectives, we help clients only include work that has an explicitly-identified return, avoiding waste. Finally, we help clients identify and select solution options (a.k.a. "deliverables" or "scope" elements) that satisfy the requirements in an optimal way. By tying project scope directly back to business case benefits, we can maintain the right focus on maximizing project ROI.
Procept provides the management consulting, training, and coaching services to help our clients perform the above work; additionally, we offer an award-winning software solution (ReqSuite® RM) to facilitate teams of individuals collaborating on completing the aforementioned work. We have helped many organizations install and configure ReqSuite to meet their unique needs including:
Procept is the only authorized ReqSuite implementation partner in North America - a recognition by its developer (Osseno Software GmbH) of Procept's expertise in requirements engineering and our approach that ties everything back to the business case.