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 Warwick

Warwick is the region urban of Warwickshire, England. The town dishonesties upon the River Avon, 11 miles (18 km) south of Coventry and fair west of Lamington Spa and Whitnash with which it is touched. At the 2011 United Kingdom review, it had a populace of 31,345.

There was human action at Warwick as early as the Neolithic period, and continuous occupancy since the 6th century. It was a Saxon burh in the 9th century, Warwick Castle was recognised in 1068 as part of the Norman conquest of England. Warwick School rights to be the eldest boys' school in the country. The earldom of Warwick was formed in 1088, and the early restrained the town in the feudal period and constructed city walls, of which Eastgate and Westgate endure. The castle industrial into a stone stronghold and then a country house and is today a general tourist attraction.

Governance:

Population growth has led to Warwick flattering combined to its larger neighbouring town Lamington Spa with which its procedures a small city. The two cities are now along with Kenilworth and Whitnash. These are managed as part of Warwick District. Warwickshire County Council leftovers based in Warwick itself.

Warwick is signified in Parliament as part of the Warwick and Leamington electorate. It has been detained by the Conservative Party since the 2010 general election; since then, Chris White has been the constituency's Member of Assembly. From the 1945 general election until 1997 the electorate elected a Traditional MP. In 1997 a Labour MP was chosen and retained the seat until 2010 when White was chosen.

Geography:

Antiquarian William Dugdale wrote in the 17th century that Warwick was stand up upon a rocky climb from every side, and in a dry and fertile soil, consuming rich and pleasant fields on the south part and woodland on the north. Two issues have pretentious Warwick's constructed environment: the Great Fire of 1694 and the lack of industrialisation. The fire demolished much of the town, and the next transformation was mainly in one style. In the 19th century, when other cities were fast rising during the Industrial Rebellion, Warwick did not know the same development. Part of the reason Warwick did not grow as a centre of the industry was that the town did not lie on significant roads and the River Avon was not manoeuvrable as far as Warwick.

Culture:

Warwick crowds annual centenaries reaching from the Spoken Word to Classical and Modern Music to a Folk Festival and a Victorian Evening, detained in late November or early December. St. Mary's Church crowds a series of Early Music performances, and the Bridge House Theatre hosts the Music-in-Round performances. Warwick Chamber of Trade assistances to endorse the town for companies, inhabitants and traders. The city is also well-known for Warwick Castle, the building of which instigated in 1068. The city centre is also recognised for its significant building and covers a combination of Tudor and 17th-century buildings. In topical years several high-profile national and international businesses have set up large office developments in and around Warwick, notably National Grid plc. And IBM.