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Writing and Managing Requirements Documents: In-House Training This course is part of IIL's Business Analysis Certificate Program (BACP), a program designed to help prepare individuals pass the IIBA™ Certification exam to become a Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP™). Learn more at www.iil.com/bacp. Once a business analyst has completed the information gathering and analysis to produce the solution to a business problem, the results must be documented for all stakeholders to see and understand. This course will enhance the skill set needed for writing and managing the complex readership that business analysts interact with on a day-to-day basis. What you will Learn Upon completion, participants will be able to: Write an understood requirements document that is approvable and acceptable Validate a requirements document Manage the changes to requirements documents through the SDLC Foundation Concepts The role of the business analyst An introduction to the BABOK® Guide The business analyst and the product/project life cycle The requirements documentation process Planning for Effective Requirements Documentation Overview of requirements planning Planning for validation Planning for verification: well-formed criteria Planning for verification: understood and usable criteria Writing Effective Requirements Documents Overview of writing requirements documents Using a standard structure / template Applying formatting techniques Meeting the challenge of writing non-functional requirements Baselining Requirements Documents Overview of the requirements baseline process Validation Verification Approval Managing Requirements Change through the Product Life Cycle Overview of requirements change management Establishing a formal change management process Tracing requirements through design and development (build, test, and implementation) Following through to post-implementation (transition and early production)

Overview Competitor Analysis is a key area every professional does to understand their business presence. It gives your insight into your business standings and also knowledge of your competitors and their strength and weakness. Analysing your competitors helps you understand the market and your power to deal with the competitors.  It is an essential marketing and strategic tool. It provides both an offensive and defensive strategic tool to analyse opportunities and threats.

Overview Corporate sales as word define mainly happens to take place during Business to Business sales process where a company sells their product and services to other businesses. It is a very complex sales and understanding and creating a strategic plan is really important during the process. Today corporate industries are working and planning new strategies, running many campaigns to promote business and use enhance marketing and sales plan to achieve their goals. In this competitive era, it has become a major necessity now. Attaining the desired skills, it requires continual development and training. Today every corporate sector wants to increase the business and losing big or even small deals is more than just a disappointment. It gives an edge to the competitors over their competitors.  This course is specially designed to understand the depth of corporate sales and how to create appropriate strategies in the niche market. It will help attain the skills required for continual development to cope with the changing trends. This Course Corporate Sales will reduce the risk of losing and will increase success with key sales opportunities.  This corporate sales programme will feed you with a trustable approach that reduces risks without fading chances of individual flair or innovation

Overview Digital technologies dramatically reshape your business. Almost all business, companies are trying to pursue significant changes to gain the beneficial effects of this new technological development and some are working hard to attain the benefit of this trend to survive. This has opened new economic opportunities which are progressively opening for organisations that need to reshape. The course will help to gain the knowledge to boost skills and to comprehend the procedures that are obligatory to communicate with clients in new ways and govern the rebellion of the media landscape. It will deliver the delegate's practises and procedures that will explain to them to cope with digital transformation, from organisational change to integrating new competencies. Participants will also learn the methods of developing a marketing strategy and managing a digital marketing Project.

Overview Any business life is completely dependent on Sales and Marketing. It delivers a significant business benefit. Providing effective training in Sales and Marketing helps boost sales, increase profit, create a brand image and also improve customer satisfaction.  The role of a sales director is crucial in improving an organization's revenue and sales. A good sales director can affect the overall performance of a business. The course is designed with a lot of practical exercises, and modern techniques, taking the delegates' skills to an advanced level. This will help the delegates to attain the skills they require and implement what they learn in their work efficiently and to their highest potential. This course will help review overall sales strategies and how they can contribute in order to achieve a desired positive outcome. It will set measurable objectives and standards within the team and will boost the confidence in their performance and achieve the objectives. 

Overview Governance is now acknowledged as a core business function. Governance is not simply about compliance - whether with the law, regulation or guidance. Compliance provides a company with its 'licence to operate, but high-quality systems of governance lead to better-run companies which create, grow and protect value for all their stakeholders Objective Learn the best strategies for building a high-quality governance framework Define the role of the board of directors and your role within Explore different governance models across the globe and identify which of them works best for your organisation Recognise and deliver your obligations as a director Learn the strategies for creating and protecting value for your organisation Explore the tools to protect your organisation's reputation and brand value Gain an understanding of governance as a business-critical function Manage governance function within different business contexts - listed, private, state-owned, family-owned businesses Master the strategies for improving board effectiveness

Overview Any business life is completely dependent on Sales and Marketing. It delivers a significant business benefit. Providing effective training in Sales and Marketing helps boost sales, increase profit, create a brand image and also improve customer satisfaction. This course has been designed to gain essential skills in Marketing and Sales, learn new sales techniques and how to reach the right audience at the right time. If there is a shortage of skills or resources within the business, you might want to provide this specially designed-training to help develop those skills.  This course will help review overall sales strategies and how marketing can contribute in order to achieve a desired positive outcome. It will set measurable objectives and standards within the team and will boost the confidence in their performance and achieve the objectives.  This course will discover various sales and marketing techniques and will provide the participants with more tools and techniques to increase individual and team sales. It will highlight all of the major components required to build good connections, know the consumer and their needs and gain commitment to a sale.

Our business photography courses are created to help individuals learn how to take professional-quality photographs for use in a business setting. By taking these courses, individuals and businesses can gain the skills and knowledge they need to create visually appealing content that can help their business stand out in a crowded marketplace. About the course Courses are focussed on the client’s requirements and are bespoke to their needs. We cater from one-to-one courses for small businesses to whole marketing departments for multinationals. So whether you’re a dog walker who wants more views or a design company that needs more collateral, we can help improve your stock imagery. These classes cover a range of topics, including learning your camera settings, lighting, composition, and editing techniques. Clients will learn how to use their cameras to capture high-quality images that can be used for marketing materials, social media posts and other promotional materials. They will also learn how to edit their photos using professional software packages like Adobe Lightroom and Apple Photos to give their images that extra pop. The important stuff These courses are all bespoke in nature so pricing will vary but we start at £350 for a three-hour course. We will discuss your specific needs before the course and make sure we cover them during the course. We will travel to your place of work so you get the relevant experience in the right environment.

Overview Financial analysis gives you a wide understanding of a company's financial information which further helps you to analyse risks in the future and improve business prospects. It plays a vital role in calculating business profit. Professionals with the necessary skills help you to know how your business and forecast the future of the business. It helps to analyse financial statements and also to appraise the present and future prospects of the business. This course is specially designed to enhance the skills of financial professionals, in financial analytics by having in-depth knowledge of fundamentals of financial statement analysis thereby empowering their analytical skills in measuring the risk business investors are dealing with and also asking the appropriate questions. It will enhance the skills of the participant and will boost their confidence uplifting their ability to comment on business activities and analyse financial health for management. These skills and the required technical knowledge will be put into practice throughout the course using interactive examples and case studies.