FBA 007 Samuel Gazimbi: Extending Your Business Analysis Licence

Samuel Gazimbi: Extending Your Business Analysis Licence 

Samuel Gazimbi and Joe Newbert explore delivering tangible value to extend your business analysis licence and risking to pull up a chair in the C-Suite.

Samuel is a business analyst with Assurity Consulting who is passionate about people, ideas and technology. He is the Past President IIBA Zimbabwe Chapter, a friend of Joe Newbert, and other such maverick BA thought leaders.

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Chapter Markers

• [01:15] Samuel’s rise from IT Support to becoming a Business Analyst 
• [05:17] Casting an eye towards what lies ahead for the business analysis profession
• [07:45] Finding value in the identity of the business analyst
• [10:18] Conveying the value of business analysis to ears that don’t understand
• [15:57] Types of skills you have now that will live long into your BA future
• [20:41] Techniques that AI might assist with in future (or takeover altogether)
• [23:22] The mindset BAs need to have to build relationships and create value
• [27:19] Lifting our heads up from what’s under our noses to see what’s on the horizon
• [32:23] Taking some risk and ownership with a slice of the C-Suite KPIs
• [40:58] Exercising fluidity as a business analyst soft-skill in the present moment

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Show Notes

Additional resources:

• Zimbabwe IIBA Chapter: https://zimbabwe.iiba.org/

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Episode sponsor:

• Website: https://businesschange.academy/

Guest contact:

• LinkedIn: https://wwwlinkedin.com/in/samuel-gazimbi-00b3465b/

Host contact:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joenewbert/
• Website: https://joenewbert.com/

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