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What is a business analyst? A key role for business-IT efficiency

CIO Business Intelligence

The International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), a nonprofit professional association, considers the business analyst “an agent of change,” writing that business analysis “is a disciplined approach for introducing and managing change to organizations, whether they are for-profit businesses, governments, or non-profits.”

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Volkswagen drives the automotive industry cloud forward

CIO Business Intelligence

And the phenomenon is taking hold across nearly every vertical, with availability of industry-focused clouds from AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle, as well as SaaS leaders Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, and Workday, targeting the financial, healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, and design/engineering sectors, to name a few.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

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She shares this message and the importance of developing learning agility for uniquely human skills as an author and advisor for Work to Learn , a consulting firm she co-founded in 2015. She contributes to the nonprofit space as a member of several Boards, and she also volunteers her blockchain knowledge to help Bitcredit.io

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