Archive for the 'Business Analysis' Category

Use of SWOT Analysis

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

A SWOT analysis can help you out when you have to make decisions. With this technique you will assess the situation by judging it on four aspects: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (hence the name SWOT for every first letter of the aspects).
Strengths
In this aspect of the SWOT analysis you will have to identify the […]

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Fifth Discipline & Software Projects

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

Ever since Peter Senge put forth the idea of "five disciplines" in the early 1990s, business management thinking has not been the same. This is all the more sharply felt in the way software development processes are handled in companies around the world.
This article takes a brief look at each of the disciplines espoused by […]

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Introduction to RCA
Root Cause Analysis (RCA) as a structured business analysis methodology has been in vogue for quite some time, and used for problem-solving in organizations in diverse industries.
This approach towards problem-solving takes a holistic view of the problem, rather than tinkering with its manifest symptoms. A typical knee-jerk reaction in most management situations is […]

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