The role of the Business Analyst and Systems Analyst: "SIS students make fantastic analytsts"

Industry leaders keep telling us that BSc (ISM) graduates make Great Business Analysts. Starting off as a Business Analyst leads to great employment and long term career opportunties.

Business Analysts quickly become experts in how an entire business process or an entire business unit operates. They quickly become "invaluable" people. Some business analysts choose to deepen their technology skills and also pursue management careers with companies or units that are technology providers. Some business analysts get so knowlegeable that they get "drafted" into the business units to lead follow on projects. They get promoted into the ranks of senior business management, and become the champions of using technology and process improvement to drive business innovation and value creation.

See the article "Why Business Analysts Are So Important for IT and CIO's" from CIO Magazine (April 2008) more
From the International Institute of Business Analysis: Learn about becoming a Business Analyst Learn about the wide range of job opportunities for Business Analysts
Discover the "Business Analyst Times," the online community for Business Analysis more
See the description of the the Business Analyst and Business Analysis from Wikipedia
Business Analysts often evolve into Management Analysts and Management Consultants Learn more about the role of Management Analysts and Consultants
See how Accenture, the global consulting firm, describes the job role for Business Analysts, and how the BA's work with the more senior management consultants more
See how McKinesy, the strategy consulting firm, defines the role of Business Analyst in their Business Technology Office, their group for Business - Technology Strategy Consulting more