Author Archives: R.P. Churchill

Business Cases

A business case is essentially a cost-benefit analysis of taking a given course of action. Actions may include embarking on new projects, acquiring resources or other organizations, making non-routine purchases, adopting new methods, entering partnerships, seeking new lines of business, … Continue reading

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Prototyping

Prototyping is the act of mocking up some aspect of an envisaged product or capability in order to asses its suitability, acceptability, or performance. It is usually applied to product design, but can be used in many different contexts for … Continue reading

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Business Capability Analysis

Business capability analysis is the process of evaluating a many aspects of a business’s ability to accomplish defined goals and support and develop its staff and customers. It seeks to create a consistent rubric for conducting repeatable analyses that allow … Continue reading

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TWSL Series 15: Why Use Business Analysts and Their Techniques?

Today I gave this webinar for the Tom Woods School of Life Lunch and Learn Series. The slides are here.

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TWSL Tech Series 02: Three.JS and WebGL

Today I gave this webinar for the Tom Woods School of Life Lunch and Learn Series. The slides are here.

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TWSL Series 14: Business Analysis Techniques from the BABOK

Today I gave this webinar for the Tom Woods School of Life Lunch and Learn Series. The slides are here.

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TWSL Series 13: Artifacts Needed to Understand the Full Story

Today I gave this webinar for the Tom Woods School of Life Lunch and Learn Series. The slides are here.

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Organizational Modeling

Organizational modeling is a technique for representing the functional, operational, or physical structure of cohesive groups of people. The most common way of doing this is by using organizational charts or “org charts.” The traditional way these are shown is … Continue reading

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TWSL Series 12: Management Observations and Agile Deep Dive

Today I gave this webinar for the Tom Woods School of Life Lunch and Learn Series. The slides are here.

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SWOT Analysis

SWOT is an acronym for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. The basic idea of this analysis is straightforward, but the decisions and actions can be as complex as can be imagined. Much like the Important vs. Urgent grid, this technique … Continue reading

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