BAaaS

Business Analyst as a Service


Use organisational clarity to drive project success

What is a
Business Analyst?


A business analyst (BA) is a professional who helps organisations to understand their business needs and translate those needs into requirements for IT solutions.


When integrated within our PMaaS framework, business analysts play a vital role in driving project success. Their ability to gather, analyse, and translate data into actionable insights serves as a guiding force for effective decision-making.


By understanding your goals and aligning project objectives accordingly, our business analysts ensure that your projects are properly planned, scoped and executed on time and within budget.

Our Process


1|
Understand the Business


BAs analyse your business in order to identify its needs. This includes understanding the current business processes, strategic goals and the current challenges you are facing

2|
Translate Business Needs


Once the BA understands your business, they will translate those needs into requirements for IT solutions. This involves identifying the features and functionality that the IT solutions should have

3|
Communicate with Stakeholders


BAs need to communicate with a variety of stakeholders, including business users, IT professionals and project managers. This involves explaining the business needs, the requirements for the IT solution and the progress of the project

4|
Requirements Process


BAs manage the requirements process, which includes gathering requirements, documenting requirements and managing changes to requirements

Benefits


Improved Decision-Making

BAs help organisations make better decisions about IT projects by providing them with a clear understanding of the business needs. This ensures that projects are aligned with your strategic goals

Increased Accuracy

BAs are trained to gather and analyse requirements in a structured and systematic way. This helps to ensure that the requirements are accurate and complete, which can reduce the risk of project failure

Enhanced Communication

BAs are skilled communicators who can bridge the gap between business users and IT professionals. They can help to ensure that everyone is on the same page and that the project is delivered on time and within budget

Reduced Risk

BAs can help to reduce the risk of project failure by identifying and mitigating risks early in the project lifecycle. This can help to save time and money in the long run

Compliance

eliminates duplication of effort between projects and optimises resources by ensuring they are allocated to the most important projects

Stakeholder Confidence

BAs help to increase stakeholder satisfaction by ensuring that their needs are met and they are informed of progress

Ready to talk?

Our Business Analysts have years of experience and use agile and waterfall methodologies to significantly improve success rates.


Get in touch today to discuss how we can help.

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"Cambridge MC helped the University of Bristol complete a multi-million modern network design & procurement, ensuring that University of Bristol remains the university of choice for student, academics and partners in a globally competitive market."


—University of Bristol Case Study


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Jason Jennings

Managing Partner - Project Management


Our Business Analyst as a Service is run by Jason Jennings


Jason is an advisor to numerous organisations and has extensive senior executive experience in the information and communications technology industry. He is the Managing Partner for Digital Transformation and lead for Cambridge MC’s Project Management as a Service capability.


Jason is a highly experienced CIO with strong commercial, business transformation and team building skills. He has a proven track record in delivering complex technology solutions for large international organisations across multiple territories. With demonstrable experience in delivering significant cost saving and improved technology-to-business alignment, Jason specialises in transformation, programme and project management, contract negotiation, outsourcing and interim management.

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We are a highly collaborative team of senior-level executive professionals able to adapt to any challenge, however niche & challenging.

+44 (0)1223 750335

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Our team can be your team


Our team of experts have multiple decades  of experience across many different business environments and across various geographies.


We can build you a specialised team with the skillset and expertise required to meet the demands of your industry.


Our combination of expertise and an intelligent methodology is what realises tangible financial benefits for clients.

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