Tips to Thrive as a Business Analyst in the New Normal

November 12, 2021

The pandemic has changed our lifestyle in many ways than we can imagine. Business and its functions have seen drastic changes all over the world. All businesses including the IT sector have adapted to new ways of work culture. Surely, we are not going back to our traditional business methods even if the COVID situation is eradicated in the world because people have settled for the new work culture due to the comfortability and flexibility.

In this article, we are going to take a look at how business analysts should thrive in this new work culture. Business analysts help and guide businesses in improving their processes, products, services and software through data analysis. Their responsibilities in the organisation lie with identifying the organization's business needs and opportunities, defining and modelling the organization's policies and standardizing the organization’s workflows and interpreting business requirements for technical systems relating to IT. The absence of direct one on one communication plays a major obstacle for business analysts.

The first step to thriving in the new normal is to upgrade your skills and knowledge. As certification credibility will give an upper hand for business analysts, it would be best suited to sign up for online courses and extend your field of knowledge. Extensive online institutes like Cloud Kampus offer a wide range of courses best suited for business analysts.

Next is to take care of your mental health and re-organise the work structure to help the organisations adapt to the new style of work culture. Clarity plays a vital role in reorganising the structure and increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of the organisation.

Some more points to keep in mind to ensure the workflow without any hassles to be effective:

• Setting up a clean workspace personally from wherever you work would be the basic requirement to work efficiently.
• Schedule weekly meetings with the agenda for the work culture to help the employees better understand how to tap into their productivity from their remote places.
• Becoming a more positive oriented person to keep the energy alive even after facing so many obstacles now.
• Get to know your stakeholder's engagements and work according to the time zone differences.
• Setting up value creation as the metric for the workflow so that everyone provides their maximum output makes it easier for the analysts to go ahead with their work and focus on what’s important.

 Always remember that changes pave the way for new learnings and new opportunities.