BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Change

Managing Organisational Change

Manage Change with latest tools and techniques
Learn the basics of organisational change and its principals
Know the different types of change
Acquire, Deploy and Ensure successful change solutions in your organisation

Change is a never-ending phenomenon and when it occurs in an organisation it might disturb the work environment. To counter this it is necessary to manage change in the organisation. The top management feels that if the element of change is not managed, it can have adverse effects on the organisation. The BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Change provides the aspirants such a type of knowledge. It also upgrades their skills such that they can manage the organisational change. At Pentagon Training, we provide the delegates with the course to help them progress further in their careers.

Who should take this course

The BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Change provides an entry qualification for anyone wishing to understand the process and techniques used in delivering business change. The course would be generally taken up by Project and System Managers.

Prerequisites

There are no formal entry requirements for this course although attendance at an accredited course is strongly recommended.

What Will You Learn

During the course the delegates will learn about the following concepts:

Business and IS strategy
Business improvement definition
Business change design and implementation
Benefits management and realisation

Key Learning Points

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Courseware

Course Overview

The BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Change (one of the courses in the Business Analysis Training) delivers a complete view of the business change lifecycle and the activities, techniques and models used when carrying out business change work. Much of the focus is on the use of Information Technology (IT) to enable business change. Today without taking IT into the framework it would become difficult to achieve maximum benefits from the change. The BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Change will be awarded to those candidates who are capable of demonstrating knowledge and understanding of the principles, approaches and techniques used to conduct business change activities.

Business Change Principles
- The distinction between IT projects, pure business change projects and the IT-enabled business change projects
- The distinction between IT as a driver and IT as an enabler
- The degrees of business change
- The distinction between improving business operations and improving business information
- IT as a core competence and the implications for the outsourcing business model
- The business change lifecycle
- The stages in the business change lifecycle
- The identification, analysis and management of stakeholders
- The business, project and external stakeholders
- The roles and responsibilities of key stakeholders:
  - Sponsor/Senior Responsible Officer
  - Business Analyst Programme Manager
  - Project Manager
  - Business Change Manager
  - Business Actor
  - Developer
Business and IT Alignment

Aligning the organisation with the External Environment, the Vision, Mission, Objectives, Strategy and Tactics, and the Enterprise Architecture
The external and internal business environments for organisations
- The importance of understanding external environment influences
- The importance of analysing the internal organisational capability
- The importance of understanding culture
Organisational Cultures
National Cultures
The implications of culture for business change projects
Corporate and IT Governance and the relevance to benefits management and risk management
Elements of an Enterprise Architecture

Business Improvement Definition
- Investigating the business situation: rationale and techniques
- Holistic approach and systems thinking
- Gap analysis: purpose and approach
- Business requirements elicitation and analysis
- The contents of the business case
  - Options
  - Costs
  - Benefits
  - Risks
  - Impacts
  - Decisions
- Stakeholder responsibilities and the business case
- The business case lifecycle
- Programme definition
  - The change programme
  - The relationship between programmes and projects
  - The role of the programme office
Business Change Design
- Aspects of organisational change
  - The organisation structure: boundaries and relationships
  - Organisation performance measurement
- Aspects of people change
  - Defining roles and jobs
  - Defining required skills and competencies
  - Managing performance of individuals
  - Communications planning
- Aspects of process change
  - The distinction between the functional and process views
  - The elements of a business process
  - ‘As is’ and ‘To be’ business processes
  - Modelling tasks
  - Improving business processes
- Information analysis and modelling
  - Information management modelling
  - Levels and types of information
  - Information modelling and the representation of business rules
- Aspects of information technology
  - Systems development lifecycles: bespoke and off the shelf software solutions
  - Architecture and service management concerns
Business Change Implementation
- Planning the acquisition, deployment and acceptance
- Acquiring the solution
  - Pros and cons of bespoke deployment
  - Pros and cons of off the shelf software solutions
  - Business acceptance testing
- Deploying the solution
  - Roles required to deploy business change
  - Approaches to deploying business change
  - The change process – unfreeze, transition, refreeze
- Ensuring acceptance
  - Emotional impact of changes
  - The learning cycle
  - Analysing the forces that assist and resist change
- Reviewing the change
  - Purpose of post-implementation review
  - The distinction between PIR and benefits review
Benefits Management and Realisation
- Benefits management in the business change lifecycle
- Classifying benefits
- Investment appraisal techniques
- Benefits and the Balanced Business Scorecard, CSFs and KPIs
- Roles and responsibilities in benefits management
- The purpose, conduct and outcomes of a benefits review
- Benefits realisation: significance and challenges

Foundation in Business Change

BCS provides extra time to the candidates in case of some disability or if they have a native language different from the language of the exam.If the examination is taken in a language that is not the candidate’s native / official language then they are entitled to 25% extra time. If the examination is taken in a language that is not the candidate’s native / official language then they are entitled to use their own paper language dictionary (whose purpose is translation between the examination language and another national language) during the examination. Electronic versions of dictionaries will not be allowed into the examination room.

About Carlisle

Carlisle, a city in Cumbria, is also the managerial centre of the City of Carlisle region in North West England. It is the main settlement in the county of Cumbria and helps as the managerial centre for both Carlisle City Council and Cumbria County Council. At the time of the 2001 survey, the population of Carlisle was 71,773. In 2011, the city's population had increased to 75,306, with 107,524 in the wider city.

The early history of Carlisle is noticeable as a Roman payment, recognised to serve the forts on Hadrian's Wall. In the Middle Ages, because of its nearness to the Realm of Scotland, Carlisle industrialised meaningfully. The armed stranglehold, Carlisle Castle, was built in 1092 by William Rufus, and once added as a custodial for Mary, Queen of Scots. The castle now relatives the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment and the Border Regiment Museum. In the 12th century, Henry I allowed the building of a priory in Carlisle. The town produced the rank of a city when its diocese was formed in 1133, and the cloister industrialised Carlisle Cathedral.

Governance:

Carlisle has detained city status since the Middle Ages. Also, it kept its status as an area constituency or governmental borough for centuries, at one time returning two MPs. In 1835 it became a municipal borough and was later upgraded to a borough status in 1914. The city's boundaries have changed several times since 1835 the final time in 1974.

The municipal area surrounded many parts of parishes which were combined into a single civil parish of Carlisle in 1904. The currently present urban area is considered as an unparished area. Carlisle had in 2002 made an unsuccessful attempt to grow to a Lord Mayoralty. An iconic building that stands tallest in Carlisle may be demolished, and the area nearby to it rehabilitated.

Climate:

Carlisle practices an oceanic climate. In January 2005 Carlisle was hit by strong wind storms and torrential rains. On Saturday 8 January 2005 all roads into Carlisle were shut owed to severe flooding, the worst since 1822, which produced three deaths. Less severe but still significant flooding occurred in 2009, but due to Storm Desmond. Carlisle experienced even worse flooding than 2005 between Friday 4 and Sunday 6 December 2015. During this time, nearly 36 hours of nonstop precipitation broke flood defences. This left several areas submerged including Bitts Park, Hardwicke Circus and Warwick Road. This left the famous Sands Centre, stranded from the rest of the city. As several other areas of Cumbria were also severely pretentious, all trains to Scotland were postponed forever. The trains on the West Coast Principal went no further than Preston. Prime Minister David Cameron stayed the city on 7 December 2015 to measure the damage.