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Analyze Current State
Strategy Analysis
6.1.5 Guidelines and Tools
• Business Analysis Approach: guides how the business analyst undertakes an
analysis of the current state.
• Enterprise Limitation: used to understand the challenges that exist within the
enterprise.
• Organizational Strategy: an organization will have a set of goals and
objectives which guides operations, establishes direction, and provides a vision
for the future state. This can be implicitly or explicitly stated.
• Solution Limitation: used to understand the current state and the challenges
of existing solutions.
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6.1.6 Techniques
• Solution Performance Goals: measure the current performance of an
enterprise or solution, and serve as a baseline for setting future state goals and
measuring improvement.
• Solution Performance Measures: describe the actual performance of existing
solutions.
• Stakeholder Analysis Results: stakeholders from across the organization will
contribute to an understanding and analysis of the current state.
• Benchmarking and Market Analysis: provides an understanding of where
there are opportunities for improvement in the current state. Specific
frameworks that may be useful include 5 Forces analysis, PEST, STEEP, CATWOE,
and others.
• Business Capability Analysis: identifies gaps and prioritizes them in relation
to value and risk.
• Business Model Canvas: provides an understanding of the value proposition
that the enterprise satisfies for its customers, the critical factors in delivering
that value, and the resulting cost and revenue streams. Helpful for
understanding the context for any change and identifying the problems and
opportunities that may have the most significant impact.
• Business Cases: used to capture information regarding the business need and
opportunity.
• Concept Modelling: used to capture key terms and concepts in the business
domain and define the relationships between them.
• Data Mining: used to obtain information on the performance of the
enterprise.
• Document Analysis: analyzes any existing documentation about the current
state, including (but not limited to) documents created during the
implementation of a solution, training manuals, issue reports, competitor
information, supplier agreements, published industry benchmarks, published
technology trends, and performance metrics.
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