BCS Foundation in Business Change

Develop skills and knowledge to support successful business change programmes within your organisation

The BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Change delivers a holistic view of the business change lifecycle and the activities, techniques and models employed when carrying out business change work.

Much of the focus is on the use of Information Technology (IT) to enable business change.

It is important to consider IT in the context of business needs and as a driver for business change, if the benefits from using IT are to be maximised.

What will you learn?

• To appreciate the principles, process and roles involved in business change.

• To understand the importance of aligning the organisation with external and internal influences and the approaches used to do this.

• To understand the business analysis approach and techniques used to identify business improvements.

• To design the inter-related elements required to implement successful business change.

• To understand the processes that should be employed to deploy business change effectively.

• To manage the classification, review and realisation of benefits.

Who is this course for?

Professionals seeking to improve their business analysis skills and knowledge:

• Practising business analysts – experienced or junior

• Project experts including project managers, project support staff, and project analysis

• Business experts including product owners, subject matter experts (SMEs), business change managers, senior users and project stakeholders

• IT experts including systems architects, software developers, testers, support, and trainers

• Anyone who works or wants to solve business problems and build solutions to enable effective change for their organisations.