Business Analysis Mind Map Templates

Templates for the part of the work before the recommendation

Analysis fails in two directions: too little structure and the findings never add up to a conclusion, too much and you spend the engagement filling in a framework. These templates are the frameworks that survive contact with a real client.

• Starting an engagement. The Client Discovery template covers the questions that are awkward to ask late and cheap to ask first.
• Connecting strategy to activity. VMOST analysis traces vision down through objectives to tactics, which is how you find the work that serves no stated goal.
• Presenting findings. The Storyline Answer-First template inverts the usual order and leads with the conclusion — the structure executives expect and the one that exposes a weak argument fastest.
• Capability gaps. Training Needs Analysis separates what people cannot do from what they are not resourced to do.

These pair naturally with the business organization templates, which pick up where analysis ends and the operating model has to change.

For the engagement work these support rather than the templates themselves, see how the discovery workshop and training needs analysis run in practice, or the consultant’s view of the whole set.