Learn and Apply Business Analysis Tools: 7S Framework, SWOT and Balanced Scorecard: To Assess a Small Business

This book is a practical and a step by step guide to understanding and implementing the analytic tools: 7S Framework, SWOT Analysis and Balanced Scorecard. It provides you with the essential information to assess your business and saves you time. You will learn first the set of powerful Business Analysis Tools, one tool at a time. These are covered in Section-1 of the book. You will then enjoy a full hands-on Section-2, applying these most reputed Business Tools through a case study. You should read this book if you want to learn what analytic tools are and how they can help you carry out business analysis on your own business (or that of your Client). You should read this book if business analysis from different perspectives interests you and if you want to include in your analytic tools portfolio some commonly used models and frameworks such as the 7S Framework, the SWOT and the Balanced Scorecard. You should read this book if you want to understand how business analysis covers different tasks, tools and techniques which are used to help stakeholders to develop a better understanding of the organization's policies, in particular, and its structure in general. Moreover, you should read this book to appreciate how business analysis is used to derive solutions oriented towards the organization's business goals. You should read this book to learn how to assess your business (or your Client's) applying the method, structure, and analytic tools herein. The book will lead you to apply the first set of analytic tools through a Case Study and prepare you for application of other sets (to come, as they become available by the author). Prelude Consulting (or PC), is used as the Case Study for this assessment. PC is a small private business in North Africa with a sister organization, in United Kingdom. Launched in 2002 it offers Technology, Management, Quality training and Consultancy Services, within its own formed niche market.This Assessment of PC will illustrate the implementation of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) and the SWOT analysis through the following elements of a reputed normative framework: - Situations and Stakeholder, - Success’ - Superordinate Goals (P.C’s vision), - Strategy - Structure - Systems, - Skills, - Shared Values (P.C’s culture), - Staff, - Style and ‘Leader-to-be – representing P.C’s CEO/ Consultant, as the centre of the global model.The S-W-O-T analysis is used to help deepen the understanding of “some” of those elements, in light of the model components: - Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats In the same way, The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) - with a ‘Strategy & Vision’ nucleus- is used to help further that understanding (above), in light of the BSC's four perspectives: - Financial, Customer, Learning & Growth, Internal Business Processes. As such, this Business Analysis practice will offer you a rich professional Assessment Approach to use for your Business (or your Client's) using effective reputed tools (SWOT, BSC and extended 7-S framework) . It will guide you step by step all the way to your required Plan of Action stage, enabling you to steer your organisation towards its vision.As an Entrepreneur, a Manager, a CEO, a Small Business Owner, an Analyst, a Freelancer, a Consultant you will develop the basis of business analysis from this book through an illustrative Case Study and an understanding of how to approach and carry out Business Analysis on your own enterprise (or that of your client) using such analytic tools discussed. For your interest, further work on Analytic Tools is planned in the form of eBooks, Print Books and Courses, which I shall be publishing in the very near future: check availability with www.amazon.com and via my website: www.ab-consulting-online.com.