Strategic Analysis and Solution Design
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Strategic Analysis and Solution Design
This course is part of SAP Business Analyst Professional Certificate
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Skills you'll gain
- Project Portfolio Management
- Solution Design
- Solution Architecture
- Risk Management
- Project Implementation
- Portfolio Management
- Business Strategies
- Change Management
- Program Implementation
- Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
- System Implementation
- Plan Execution
- Solution Delivery
- Business Analysis
- Risk Management Framework
- Business Solutions
- Risk Analysis
- Risk Mitigation
- Business Risk Management
- Business Planning
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There are 4 modules in this course
Develop strategic analysis and solution design skills essential for senior Business Analyst roles. Develop comprehensive business cases and effective solution designs, incorporating risk analysis, and utilize a trial version of SAP Build to design and simulate optimized workflows. Apply portfolio management best practices while leveraging ChatGPT for advanced analysis. This capstone course integrates all previous learning into sophisticated, enterprise-level solutions.
By the end of this course, you will learn skills to be able to: - Create comprehensive business cases incorporating strategic and financial analysis - Evaluate and manage organizational risks using enterprise risk management approaches - Develop strategic portfolio management plans - Design end-to-end solution proposals that demonstrate advanced Business Analyst capabilities
Learn about strategic business case development, a critical skill for driving organizational change and securing buy-in for new initiatives. You'll learn how to align proposed solutions with overarching strategic goals, conduct thorough cost-benefit analyses to assess financial viability, and effectively articulate the value proposition of your ideas. Through hands-on activities, you'll gain practical experience in developing strategic frameworks, leveraging ChatGPT for cost analysis, and constructing compelling business cases that resonate with decision-makers. By the end of this module, you'll be equipped to champion your proposals with confidence, ensuring your solutions are strategically sound and contribute to organizational success.
What's included
8 videos7 readings7 assignments
8 videosβ’Total 36 minutes
- Why strategic analysis mattersβ’2 minutes
- Alignment frameworks using SAPβ’5 minutes
- Creating your strategic alignment planβ’7 minutes
- Why cost-benefit analysis matters in SAPβ’2 minutes
- Conducting a cost-benefit analysis with SAP Analytics Cloud and use ChatGPT to interpret data or perform basic calculationsβ’6 minutes
- Why business cases matterβ’2 minutes
- Building a strong business caseβ’8 minutes
- Aligning your business case with strategic goalsβ’4 minutes
7 readingsβ’Total 65 minutes
- Essentials of strategic analysis and solution designβ’5 minutes
- Foundations of strategic analysisβ’10 minutes
- Strategic analysis in practiceβ’10 minutes
- Fundamentals of cost-benefit analysis for SAPβ’10 minutes
- Analyzing a cost-benefit case studyβ’10 minutes
- Building a compelling business caseβ’10 minutes
- Analyzing and aligning the business caseβ’10 minutes
7 assignmentsβ’Total 165 minutes
- Activity: Defining objectives and identifying stakeholder needsβ’30 minutes
- Strategic business case developmentβ’30 minutes
- Activity: Develop your strategic analysis and alignment frameworkβ’30 minutes
- Strategic analysis fundamentalsβ’15 minutes
- Activity: Conduct a cost-benefit analysis and interpret findingsβ’30 minutes
- Cost-benefit analysisβ’15 minutes
- Building the business caseβ’15 minutes
Learn about the crucial discipline of risk analysis and management, providing you with the knowledge and tools to identify, assess, and mitigate potential threats to your organization. You'll learn how to conduct comprehensive risk assessments, considering various enterprise-level factors, and develop effective risk response strategies. This module also emphasizes the importance of ongoing monitoring, guiding you through the creation of frameworks to track and manage risks over time. Through hands-on activities, you'll gain practical experience in identifying potential risks, developing mitigation plans, and designing monitoring systems to ensure organizational resilience and success.
What's included
9 videos6 readings7 assignments1 discussion prompt
9 videosβ’Total 43 minutes
- Understanding enterprise risk in modern businessesβ’3 minutes
- Conducting a risk assessmentβ’8 minutes
- Using SAP Analytics Cloud to track and monitor risksβ’4 minutes
- Understanding risk management for SAP Analystsβ’4 minutes
- SAP risk response planning walkthroughβ’7 minutes
- Risk response planning in actionβ’4 minutes
- The importance of risk monitoringβ’2 minutes
- Using SAP Analytics Cloud for risk monitoringβ’6 minutes
- Setting up risk alerts in SAPβ’4 minutes
6 readingsβ’Total 60 minutes
- Introduction to enterprise risk managementβ’10 minutes
- Risk mitigation using SAP Analytics Cloudβ’10 minutes
- Planning for risks in SAPβ’10 minutes
- Adapting to risks in SAPβ’10 minutes
- Introduction to risk monitoringβ’10 minutes
- Developing a risk monitoring planβ’10 minutes
7 assignmentsβ’Total 165 minutes
- Activity: Build and implement a risk monitoring framework: A case study approachβ’30 minutes
- Risk analysis and managementβ’30 minutes
- Activity: Assess and mitigate risk: Developing a risk management planβ’30 minutes
- Enterprise risk managementβ’15 minutes
- Activity: Develop a risk mitigation strategy and design a monitoring frameworkβ’30 minutes
- Risk response planningβ’15 minutes
- Risk monitoringβ’15 minutes
1 discussion promptβ’Total 10 minutes
- Navigating the uncertainβ’10 minutes
Learn the crucial process of solution design, enabling you to translate business needs into effective and well-structured solutions. You'll learn how to create comprehensive solution architectures, considering all key components and interactions, and develop robust integration strategies to ensure seamless implementation. This module also emphasizes the importance of validation, guiding you through the creation of frameworks to test and refine your solutions. Through hands-on activities, including building a basic prototype, you'll gain practical experience in designing solutions, planning integrations, and developing validation strategies. By the end of this module, you'll be equipped to design, implement, and validate solutions that effectively address business challenges and drive organizational success.
What's included
9 videos6 readings6 assignments
9 videosβ’Total 40 minutes
- Why solution architecture mattersβ’3 minutes
- Visualizing solution architecture with SAP Signavioβ’6 minutes
- Prototyping user interfaces with Google Sheetsβ’3 minutes
- Integration planning: Why it mattersβ’3 minutes
- Steps to developing integration documentsβ’4 minutes
- Applying SAP tools in integration strategyβ’7 minutes
- Why validation matters in SAP solutionsβ’2 minutes
- Building basic validation frameworksβ’5 minutes
- Advanced validation techniquesβ’7 minutes
6 readingsβ’Total 60 minutes
- Introduction to solution architectureβ’10 minutes
- Designing effective solution architecturesβ’10 minutes
- Fundamentals of integration strategyβ’10 minutes
- Introduction to SAP LeanIX for business analystsβ’10 minutes
- Solution validation foundationsβ’10 minutes
- Validation techniques and framework componentsβ’10 minutes
6 assignmentsβ’Total 135 minutes
- Solution designβ’30 minutes
- Design, review, and refine your solution architectureβ’30 minutes
- Solution architectureβ’15 minutes
- Integration planningβ’15 minutes
- Solution validationβ’15 minutes
- Activity: Develop and apply a validation framework for SAP implementationβ’30 minutes
Learn the critical stages of implementation planning, ensuring a smooth transition from design to execution. You'll learn how to create detailed implementation roadmaps using the proven SAP Activate methodology, incorporating key milestones and dependencies. Recognizing the human element, this module also emphasizes change management, providing you with the tools to effectively communicate, train, and support stakeholders throughout the implementation process. Finally, you'll learn how to define and track success metrics, utilizing SAP Analytics Cloud to build dashboards that monitor progress and demonstrate value. Through hands-on activities, you'll gain practical experience in developing implementation plans, creating change management strategies, and designing dashboards to measure the ongoing success of your solutions.
What's included
8 videos7 readings7 assignments
8 videosβ’Total 34 minutes
- The importance of implementation strategyβ’2 minutes
- Creating implementation timelinesβ’6 minutes
- Navigating SAP Activate roadmapsβ’3 minutes
- Why change management mattersβ’2 minutes
- Conducting stakeholder analysisβ’6 minutes
- Creating a change management planβ’6 minutes
- Why success measurement mattersβ’2 minutes
- Building dashboards in SAP Analytics Cloudβ’7 minutes
7 readingsβ’Total 65 minutes
- Foundations of SAP implementationβ’10 minutes
- SAP Activate methodology and roadmapsβ’10 minutes
- Understanding and engaging stakeholders in changeβ’10 minutes
- Planning and implementing change initiativesβ’10 minutes
- The Importance of success measurementβ’10 minutes
- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)β’10 minutes
- End of course summaryβ’5 minutes
7 assignmentsβ’Total 195 minutes
- Activity: Develop a change management plan with stakeholder communication strategiesβ’30 minutes
- Project: Strategic solution proposalβ’60 minutes
- Activity: Develop and apply a roadmap for strategic implementation using SAP Activateβ’30 minutes
- Implementation strategyβ’15 minutes
- Change managementβ’15 minutes
- Success measurementβ’15 minutes
- Activity: Dashboard creation challengeβ’30 minutes
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