5 Things a Business Analysis Mindset Will Do For You
I used to feel uneasy about the BABOK definition of “Business Analyst”, but over time, I have come to embrace it as not just a role. It is a mindset and it comes with several professional and personal benefits – if you embrace it.
Storytelling: The Business Analyst’s Secret Weapon
As a movie lover, I often find myself immersed in beautiful storylines and recently, I had to wonder what makes a good story and how I could learn a few things from movie makers and transfer them to the field.
Design is Everything, but Can Your Design Have Everything?
Design is all around us. I used to thing that design was just about how a thing looks but over the years, I came to understand that it involves how a thing performs. Here is a list of 10 characteristics of a good design as stated by Dieter Rams.
Can Great Design Be The Leather That Sheaths The Sword of Capitalism?
Capitalism is a vehicle for good, growth and innovation but left unchecked, bad actors can use it for the decimation of humanity at the cost of profit. Can we use design as a way to check this?
The Designer’s Guide To Requirements Elicitation
The ability to ask great questions might not just be the foundation of great relationships, it could also be the foundation of great solutions. As business analysts, this ability is required to hold elicitation sessions which could lead to great products.
The Customer is Always Important
Over the years, the mantra “the customer is always right” has been used and in most cases abused. This is a proposition to shift the narrative from a transactional approach to a relationship approach by reframing the mantra.
Logo Redesign – Purple Spice Kitchen
I had the opportunity to redesign the logo for Purple Spice Kitchen, a UK-based restaurant dedicated to bringing authentic Nigerian flavours to both Nigerians and diaspora communities longing for a taste of home
One Skill I Have That I Did Not Acknowledge Until Now
Just as “6 Degrees of Separation” refers to the idea that any two people in the world can be connected through six or fewer acquaintances, this concept could apply to how resourceful individuals navigate networks of information, skills, and resources. In this case, instead of connecting people, the person is connecting resources, tools, and knowledge that may seem otherwise unconnected.
Logo Design – Ontogenesis Youth Development Initiative.
This logo design was one of my first design projects where I had the opportunity to highlight my thought process during the development of the project.