Get Fit: Lose the BA Weight

Many of us started the new year with a stack of goals and resolutions. Did you resolve to take a few pounds off by eating healthier, hitting the gym, or running a 5K? What about your professional health and fitness? Do you have a few extra professional pounds dragging...

Do you need to be face-to-face to collaborate?

Meaningful Collaboration => Creativity and Innovation In the recent quest to maximize collaboration, many large companies eliminated telecommuting and trashed flex schedules. These policy shifts may provide small creativity boosts, but large companies still have...

Three BA Metrics You Should Be Tracking

What do you know about healthcare.gov, the United States’ new online healthcare marketplace? No matter your political affiliation, you have to admit the launch of the website has been a giant fiasco. When you visit the site, here are a few of the interesting...

Empathy at Work: The Secret of Business Analysis Success

For many people, empathy is a tool for personal or spiritual relationships. We save our empathy skills for people who are struggling with poverty, illness or grief. We don’t apply empathy to those who are happy or content and when it comes to our professional lives,...

Create a culture of innovation

“Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.” – Jimmy Carter At BA-Squared, we think stakeholder engagement is the key to creativity, collaboration and innovation. If your stakeholders are too busy, distracted, apathetic or bored, then status...