Business Analysts In Demand

It’s very exciting being involved in a profession that is both vital to businesses, but also rapidly evolving and maturing (or ‘growing up’) at the same time.  Business Analysis had its first professional organization form only ten years ago.  Since that time it’s grown to be a global organization with membership in the neighborhood of 30,000, there’s a Body of Knowledge for the profession that will have its third edition published soon, and it has an accreditation program established.  

Recently a much larger organization, the Project Management Institute, has announced it will be focusing much more on servicing the needs of the BA profession as well.

The many companies I’m fortunate to visit in my role represent a broad cross-section of almost every industry you can imagine and in every case I see a strong need for skilled Business Analysts.

IT Business Edge published Top 10 Most In-Demand IT Job Titles in which "Business Analyst" ranked sixth.  CNN Money lists "Business Analyst" as one of the Best Jobs in America, in an analysis that spans all industries, not just IT.  More recently CIO Magazine ranged "Business Analyst" as the number four Most Difficult to Fill IT Roles.

Just three data points of many I'm seeing that all point to the same conclusion:  It definitely looks like those in, or entering, the BA profession have lots of opportunity ahead!