Below I’ll give you my selections for the best Business Analysis books by a few categories. I will cover these and other great books more in depth later.
- Business Analysis for Practitioners: A Practice Guide (2015)
- A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK Guide) (2015)
- Microsoft Excel Data Analysis and Business Modeling (5th Edition) (2016)
- The PMI Guide to Business Analysis (2018)
- How to Start a Business Analyst Career: The handbook to apply business analysis techniques, select requirements training, and explore job roles … career (Business Analyst Career Guide) (2015)
- Business Analysis for Beginners: Jump-Start Your BA Career in Four Weeks (2014)
- Business Analysis And Process Modeling: A Beginner’s Guide To Business Strategy And Process Improvement (2018)
- Microsoft Excel 2019 Data Analysis and Business Modeling (6th Edition) (Business Skills) (2019)
- Seven Steps to Mastering Business Analysis (2008)
- Mastering Business Analysis Standard Practices: Seven Steps to the Next Level of Competency (Business Analysis Professional Development) (2019)
- Business Analysis For Dummies (2013)
- Business Analysis with Microsoft Excel (5th Edition) (2018)
- Mastering Business Analysis Standard Practices Workbook (Business Analysis Professional Development) (2019)
- Business Analysis (2014)
- REQUIREMENTS GATHERING FOR THE NEW BUSINESS ANALYST: The Simplified Beginners Guide to Business Systems Analysis (2017)
Business Analysis for Practitioners: A Practice Guide (2015)
Business Analysis for Practitioners: A Practice Guide provides practical resources to tackle the project-related issues associated with requirements and business analysis—and addresses a critical need in the industry for more guidance in this area. The practice guide begins by describing the work of business analysis.
A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK Guide) (2015)
A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK® Guide) is the only globally recognized standard of practice for business analysis. Developed through a rigorous consensus-driven standards process, the BABOK® Guide incorporates the collective wisdom and experience of experts in the field from around the world.
Microsoft Excel Data Analysis and Business Modeling (5th Edition) (2016)
Master business modeling and analysis techniques with Microsoft Excel 2016, and transform data into bottom-line results. Written by award-winning educator Wayne Winston, this hands on, scenario-focused guide helps you use Excel’s newest tools to ask the right questions and get accurate, actionable answers. This edition adds 150+ new problems with solutions, plus a chapter of basic spreadsheet models to make sure you’re fully up to speed.
The PMI Guide to Business Analysis (2018)
The Standard for Business Analysis – First Edition is a new PMI foundational standard, developed as a basis for business analysis for portfolio, program, and project management. This standard illustrates how project management processes and business analysis processes are complementary activities, where the primary focus of project management processes is the project and the primary focus of business analysis processes is the product.
How to Start a Business Analyst Career: The handbook to apply business analysis techniques, select requirements training, and explore job roles … career (Business Analyst Career Guide) (2015)
You may be wondering if business analysis is the right career choice, debating if you have what it takes to be successful as a business analyst, or looking for tips to maximize your business analysis opportunities. With the average salary for a business analyst in the United States reaching above $90,000 per year, more talented, experienced professionals are pursuing business analysis careers than ever before.
Business Analysis for Beginners: Jump-Start Your BA Career in Four Weeks (2014)
is a comprehensive hands-on guide to jump-starting your BA career in weeks. The book empowers you to gain a complete understanding of business analysis fundamental concepts and unlock the value of a business analyst to an organization in identifying problems and opportunities and finding solutions. Learn how to define the business needs and apply the most effective tools and techniques to elicit, analyze and communicate requirements with business stakeholders.
Business Analysis And Process Modeling: A Beginner’s Guide To Business Strategy And Process Improvement (2018)
Learn How to Analyze and Improve Business.What if small steps will dramatically increase your Business productivity in critical areas? What if the organization have enough time to improve services not only maintain them?ITIL Expert, Ahmed Fawzy, present a remarkable approached to improve services.
Microsoft Excel 2019 Data Analysis and Business Modeling (6th Edition) (Business Skills) (2019)
Master business modeling and analysis techniques with Microsoft Excel 2019 and Office 365 and transform data into bottom-line results. Written by award-winning educator Wayne Winston, this hands-on, scenario-focused guide helps you use Excel to ask the right questions and get accurate, actionable answers.
Seven Steps to Mastering Business Analysis (2008)
Business analysis is the fastest growing field in business today and the role of the business analyst is both strategic and tactical. At the strategic level, the focus is on understanding the needs of the business as a whole, its strategic direction, and identifying initiatives that will enable the business to meet its goals.
Mastering Business Analysis Standard Practices: Seven Steps to the Next Level of Competency (Business Analysis Professional Development) (2019)
This volume presents all the standard practices for performing business analysis work across seven steps, five perspectives, and 74 techniques. It will help business analysts at all levels further develop their skills to master the next level of competency in business analysis needed to advance their careers.
Business Analysis For Dummies (2013)
Business analysis refers to the set of tasks and activities that help companies determine their objectives for meeting certain opportunities or addressing challenges and then help them define solutions to meet those objectives.
Business Analysis with Microsoft Excel (5th Edition) (2018)
It’s time to put the full power of Excel quantitative analysis behind your management decisions! Business analysis expert Conrad Carlberg shows you how to use Excel to perform core financial tasks all managers and entrepreneurs need to master: analyzing statements, planning and controlling company finances, making investment decisions, and managing sales and marketing.
Mastering Business Analysis Standard Practices Workbook (Business Analysis Professional Development) (2019)
This volume is the companion workbook to Mastering Business Analysis Standard Practices. Designed for instructors, trainers, and students, this supplemental workbook should be used in conjunction with the main text and enables readers to practice the seven-step business analysis process they are learning with a realistic case study, exercises, and suggested solutions.
Business Analysis (2014)
Business analysts must respond to the challenges of today’s highly competitive global economy by developing practical, creative and financially sound solutions that will address business problems and grasp new opportunities. This excellent guide sets out the essential toolkit required.
REQUIREMENTS GATHERING FOR THE NEW BUSINESS ANALYST: The Simplified Beginners Guide to Business Systems Analysis (2017)
Have you recently taken on the role of Business Analyst, but have no clue where to start? Were you thrown into a project and given very little direction? How stressful! The entire project team is depending on you to deliver a critical requirements document that is the foundation for the entire project. But the problem is, you have no little to no training, very little direction, and and a very clear time-line of ASAP. What do you do? I’ve been in this situation, and it is no fun.
Best Business Analysis Books to Read
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Business Analysis and Design: Understanding Innovation in Organisation
Author(s): Paul Beynon-Davies
ID: 2982619, Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, Year: 2021, Size: 12 Mb, Format: pdf
Econometric Analysis of Panel Data (Springer Texts in Business and Economics)
Author(s): Badi H. Baltagi
ID: 2988204, Publisher: Springer, Year: 2021, Size: 12 Mb, Format: pdf
Applied Advanced Analytics: 6th IIMA International Conference on Advanced Data Analysis, Business Analytics and Intelligence (Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics)
Author(s): Arnab Kumar Laha (editor)
ID: 3009269, Publisher: Springer, Year: 2021, Size: 6 Mb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not absolute. Some books are really best-sellers according to Washington Post, others are composed by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant links you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.