BA & Beyond

"We are no longer securing computers, we are securing society." -- Mikko Hyppönen,  a renowned cybersecurity expert. We, that includes BA professionals. One of the most important causes of cyber security problems is us, humans, not technology. Enter the BA professional to ensure cyber security is not only treated as a technical matter! Bindu Channaveerappa CBAP, CCA, BA & Beyond workshop facilitator in collaboration with Terry Baresh, and Co-author and Exam Writer of the IIBA Cybersecurity Analysis Certification, is now on a mission to empower EVERY business analyst to holistically integrate cybersecurity within business analysis by 2030. Yes, EVERY BA, that includes you. 😀 Check out Bindu's website https://lnkd.in/eKnuuP6E for several resources about cyber security, free and paid, and discover how you can enable a more secure society!

We're going beyond our borders once more this week. Learn all about "Successful Stakeholder Engagement" from Kathy Berkidge, frequent BA & Beyond speaker who loves travelling and who will be in Poland shortly. Join her at the IIBA Poland Chapter in Warsaw on 28 September or Krakow on 5 October and practice your stakeholder skills using Kathy's Stakeholder Engagement Canvas.

Ok ok, we hear you! Let's give the active IIBA® Brussels Chapter #BACafé followers (and Bruce Springsteen) a heads up: 🇩🇰 Tuesday 6 May Denmark 🇳🇱 Thursday 8 May The Netherlands 🇧🇪 Monday 12 - Tuesday 13 May Belgium 🇱🇺 Thursday 15 May Luxembourg Stay tuned for the call for speakers and see you there! 👋

(Why) Would you (not) consider a career in tech? Find out today (19 September 12:00 Brussels/CET) at this free webinar. Everybody welcome, especially those who don’t think a career in tech is “for them”! But ... I'm not technical?! Do you actually need development skills in all tech-related jobs and roles? Do you need to know all about data, digital, AI, ...? In her recently launched book "Careers in Tech, Data and Digital: From education to employment" BA & Beyond keynote speaker Christina Lovelock answers these an many other questions about the myriad roles in technology. Summaries and case studies bring the topic to live and showcase the breadth of interesting, creative, and collaborative roles available, beyond the purely technical ones. If you want discover if you could be a tech professional of the future, and learn about the many routes into tech, join Tina and Jamie Toyne at this first of 5 sessions that our Partner Herd Consulting is running as part of Leeds Digital festival. It will be an insightful sneak preview of Tina's book published by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. Links in the comments. 👇

Want to learn about strategic #businessanalysis? Join the Free Webinar: "Putting the PESTLE to the Metal to Power Your Organisations Strategic Journey". 🆓 Joe Newbert, one of the #BABeyond24 keynote speakers, is running a free webinar together with our friends from IIBA South Africa Chapter. Joe will teach you how to use PESTLE Analysis to examine a business's external environment and use the insights discovered to identify potential opportunities and threats so that you can contribute to the organisation's strategy, goals and objectives. 🎯 Take your BA skills to the next level! 🚀 👉 All details at https://lnkd.in/e4hdEC-4 With Business Change Academy

Will you be a #businessanalysis Force Multiplier? Perhaps you already are one? Let's make a dent together!

While BA & Beyond is in a quiet period, exciting stuff is being planned elsewhere. The next IIBA South Africa Chapter #BASummitSA will once again feature a diverse range of topics by a diverse group of speakers, local and global. Too far away for you? Think again! Belgium will be represented by BA & Beyond regulars Ann Mistiaen and Nikolaas De Graeve, who started sharing their experience at #BABeyond19 Belgium, giving back to our community after being inspired the year before. Their journey continued, bringing them abroad first to London then South Africa two years ago as they participated in the first BA & Beyond #OnTour. This year, the presented at our first Luxembourg leg. It's exciting to see them speaking again at the SA Summit. Perhaps their speaking journey is inspiration for you in 2025? If so, let us know, and you may be on your way for another #OnTour... 🌐

Draag bij aan #DREAM24 en deel je ervaring met "Verandering"! Alweer een boeiend thema dat een mooie variatie aan topics zal opleveren. Met Christina Lovelock als spreker ben je alvast in goed gezelschap. :-) #change #businessanalysis DREAM event

🎢 Exactly six weeks ago, on Thursday 6 June, we concluded the #BABeyond24 tour in Luxembourg. This was the fourth country/city we visited this year, analysis #beyondborders Again, we had a good programme and some speakers travelled with us throughout the tour! 🔮 Fabricio Laguna opened the day with a future #perspective of our profession.  📽 Nikoletta Kanellopoulou asked us about the need for the solution and Oupa Laka used a different #lens to highlight the perspective precision. Boopeshvikram Ramasubramanian looked at the role of the #BA from yet another #perspective, the event industry. 🍽 After a good lunch, Ozgur Baris Hazir provided a presentation on acceptance and evaluation criteria and Svetlana Podchasova offered us a look at Behaviour Driven Development. 💹 Adesope. took us into the world of OKRs and Ann Mistiaen & Nikolaas De Graeve gave us insights into the BA's role as team leader and team connector. 💡 Angela Wick provided the closing keynote on Business #Agility through combining Analysis and #AI Leave in the comments your key moment from our day in Luxembourg! And thanks to our media partners BA-Cube.com & BA-Squared, LLC, Herd Consulting, DM Digi, Passionate Business Analyst, Van Haren Group and IREB 📸 credits Fabricio, Oupa Laka

So just before the weekend, another review of the second afternoon in Leuven The participants again had a tough choice with the broad programme. 🧐 In the Product Thinking track, Isabelle Van de Reviere, Sergiu Pocan and Angela Wick gave their interactive presentations. 🚀 Stefan Bossuwé and Barbara Carkenord, had instructive presentations on Strategy - Execution. 👩💻 And on your career (dis)comfort, very useful tips were shared by Christina Lovelock, Kathy Berkidge and Malgorzata Blus 🍵 Of course, there were also some #CoffeeCornerConversations to choose from this afternoon from Pieter Peremans, Bola Adesope. Berenice Koch, Emily Tom, and Stefan Lodewijckx & @Joachim de Wolf. 🐔 The day ended with a fun keynote with some great messages by Phil Barth: Fry Your Chickens! 🗨 We're looking forward to hearing your comments on this afternoon. Fortunately, the last afternoon in Belgium during #BABeyond24 was not yet the last day of BA & Beyond. Next week, another retro perspective on the fifth and final day in Luxembourg! 📸 credits: Oupa Laka, Christina Lovelock, Andy Grazebrook, Wouter