Business Analysis and Project Management are two of my favourite modules! Despite the ambiguous nature of BA, working on analysing E.ON on a global level including process identification, mapping to critical success factors, doing various data collection and evaluation (including, SWOT, PESTILE and McKinsey’s 7s) was intriguing and relatively strait forward once I got the hang of it. This was handed in via two 25% coursework’s, the first regarding KPI’s and HOQ (House of Quality) and the second via ‘request for proposal’ for a satellite management dashboard. This required a number of skills to be applied, both technical (graphical design) and business such as costing and data collection methodologies.

business analysisProject Management was very similar to Business Analysis, covering some of the same material. However it is much less case study specific and a more overall view of managing critical processes and analysing data. Including areas such as Perato analysis meant there was a strong mathematical basis to the module (both modules, in fact) but it was all explained. Having a frankly pretty bad grasp of A-Level mathematics I worried a little at first, but everything was explained and I now feel confident around the relatively simple calculations required to give good business analysis emphasis.