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Business Analysis Relationships

Why This Exists

This document explains how Business Analysis relates to Practices, domains, Digital Professionals, SOPs, and KPIs.

Owner

The owner is the Chief Product Officer and Enterprise Architect.

Business Value

Relationship clarity ensures Business Analysis serves the Digital Procurement Company without duplicating organization facts or AI reasoning ownership.

Practice Relationships

Practice Business Analysis relationship
Executive Office Receives organization context, gaps, health inputs, and priority recommendations.
Compliance Receives business context, capability evidence, and readiness gap signals.
Procurement Intelligence Receives service, product, region, capability, preference, and fit context.
Bid Management Receives experience profile, capability evidence, service/product interpretation, and gap signals.
Funding Receives organization context, financial profile references, contract fit, and readiness signals.
Procurement Academy Receives capability gaps that may become learning recommendations.
Business Intelligence Receives organization health inputs and gap metrics.
Platform Administration May receive support context and tenant administration view inputs.

Domain Relationships

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    BA[Business Analysis]
    Organization[Organization]
    Intelligence[Intelligence]
    Compliance[Compliance]
    Opportunity[Opportunity]
    Bid[Bid]
    Funding[Funding]
    Analytics[Analytics]
    Learning[Learning]
    Executive[Executive Office]

    Organization -->|source facts| BA
    BA -->|prepared knowledge| Intelligence
    BA -->|readiness context| Compliance
    BA -->|fit context| Opportunity
    BA -->|evidence context| Bid
    BA -->|business context| Funding
    BA -->|health and gap inputs| Analytics
    BA -->|gap signals| Learning
    Executive -->|priorities| BA

Relationship Rules

  • Organization owns organization facts.
  • Business Analysis interprets and operationalizes organization knowledge.
  • Intelligence may reason over the Organization Intelligence Graph.
  • Executive Office coordinates priorities.
  • Dependent Practices consume Business Analysis outputs with source references.

Cross-Practice Handoff

Business Analysis handoffs should state:

  • Source references.
  • Interpretation.
  • Confidence.
  • Gap signals.
  • Intended Practice use.
  • Recommended follow-up.