Exam 74-674 - Delivering Business Value Planning Services
Skills measured
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Prepare for and scope an engagement with a customer (16%)
- Validate the availability of Software Assurance (SA) deployment services benefits
- Determine whether the customer has SA, determine how many days the customer is eligible for, determine current licensing
- Identify decision makers
- Identify business decision makers and technical decision makers, process owners
- Identify business processes to be targeted by this service
- Facilitate a discussion with the customer about problems that they are currently having, brainstorm business processes that need improvement
- Define tasks based on customer requirements
- Deliverables based on length of engagement, focus on planning and design versus implementation
Analyze and document the current state of a business process (24%)
- Gather business process information
- Prepare a set of interview questions for each role in the process, interview key stakeholders about steps in the business process, identify technology used in the business process
- Create a current state business process diagram
- Review existing documentation, work activities, cycle times, task sequencing, role assignments, supporting documents for diagram
- Document the current technology infrastructure
- Review existing documentation, analyze data collected during interviews, capacity that existing infrastructure can support, technology skill level of process users, software applications and versions deployed, analyze which technologies support each step in the process
- Identify the business impact of problems in the current process
- Problems and/or impacts of current state, cost information per process task
Optimize a business process by using Office system solutions (30%)
- Recommend Office system–focused technology changes based on business problems and client requirements
- Which Office system technology to apply to a specific business problem
- Recommend business process changes based on business problems and client requirements
- Eliminate process steps, change roles for specific steps in the process, automate manual processes
- Conduct a gap analysis
- Technology gap analysis, process gap analysis, skills gap analysis, human capital gap analysis
- Create an implementation and adoption plan
- Training plan, communication plan, preliminary project plan, budget, resource plan
Develop a business case for a recommended solution (30%)
- Identify and quantify key process benefits
- Productivity improvements, shorter cycle times, data quality improvements, customer satisfaction improvements, risk avoidance, business intelligence improvements, other KPI improvements
- Conduct a cost/benefit analysis
- Cost reductions, cost avoidance, revenue improvements, methods of calculating financial return
- Identify and mitigate risks for a recommended solution
- Technology risks, business risks, resistance to change, mitigation strategy
- Develop a high-level value proposition statement for recommended future state
- Tailor value proposition statements for different audiences