Should a BA be involved in Strategy?
What about reviewing legal documents or detailed technical specifications?
Business Analysis is the mindset of translating complexity and misalignment into shared understanding and turning abstract ideas and objectives into strategies, requirements and specifications.
In practice, it can be helpful to separate roles along a continuum:
🔹Strategic Advisor → Strategy
🔹Business Analyst → Business Requirements
🔹Functional Analyst → Specifications
An experienced BA with domain knowledge should be able operate anywhere along that spectrum.
Hot take🔥
Firms UNDERUTILIZE their BAs, especially when it comes to strategy and decision making
As automation and AI eliminates more and more low-value tasks, the real added-value will come from:
↳ Understanding the business
↳ Validating specs, changes and decisions
↳ Communicating with stakeholders
↳ Process optimization
↳ Managing risk and quality assurance
This leaves us with the questions
👉 Are firms ready to invite BAs into the strategy space?
👉 Are BAs ready to step into this new role?