Business Analysts work with organisations to help them improve their processes, ways of working and technology. At Registers of Scotland (RoS), we have a thriving community of business analysts who provide this support – something which has been particularly vital during a year of rapid change and move to remote working.

In this blog, we tell you about the upcoming European Business Analysis Conference where RoS colleagues will be speaking about helping businesses adapt to the virtual world of work during turbulent times.

This is the third year we’ve been selected from Business Analysts from across Europe to run a workshop at the conference. As you can imagine we are delighted to be asked back again.

So what’s it all about?

We aren’t simply presenting. This is a fully immersive three-hour workshop titled ‘Virtual Pace, Virtual Space’.

Once again, the conference is fully online. Because of this our workshop will be run virtually. This is ideal as it gives us the opportunity to demonstrate working in a virtual world using some of the tools available.

The workshop

During the workshop we’ll be exploring:

• How organisations use different methods to inform change or transformation.
• The best way to roll in change without breaking business operations, during turbulent times (like pandemics or lockdowns) where all business is conducted virtually
• Agility and flexibility and ways of working which promote incremental and iterative change
• Delivering what matters for customers and users

During this we’ll be delving into the artefacts and methods that build success. Looking at the application of these in a virtual world, where we need to consider a new pace of activity and work in a new virtual space.

What will you learn?

We have arranged the workshop to be fully interactive so that delegates come away having either learnt something completely new or built on their existing knowledge through five key learning points:

1. Good tools that help share and collaborate virtually are essential (we’ll be running the workshop using a few of them)
2. Maintaining good mental health helps all of you to reach your goals – we’ll be showing some techniques that helped us
3. Be more agile… we aren’t talking about the method here we are talking about flexibility and the need to roll with it. We’ll be showing how and when this worked for us.
4. Thinking about your customer, thinking about their needs.
5. Thinking ahead, as we move toward another environmental change – what will happen next for us.

As with all workshops, our delegates will be sharing their experiences alongside us, so we are sure to be learning and enhancing our knowledge as well during this event.

Interested in coming along to the workshop, find out more.