Virtual Internship - Information Systems Business Analysis
General
- Graduate
- 300 hours per learner
- Dates set by projects
- Learners apply to projects
Preferred companies
- 3/5 project matches
- Anywhere
- Academic experience
- Any
- Any
Categories
Overview
- Details
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A business analyst is very much a business-technology researcher and consultant, someone who will help your business to realize the highest potential value for your dollars invested in technology, and will provide a clear roadmap in defining exactly what your technology needs to do to realize those benefits. In this project, a team of multidisciplinary students will help to develop recommendations for a challenge or opportunity you may be facing.
- Learner skills
- Software/system development, Business analytics, Data visualization, Consulting, Data analysis
- Deliverables
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All partners will receive:
- Project Plan (including the Statement of Work & Description of Deliverables)
- Presentation of Solution or Recommendations
- Final Project Report
Additional deliverables:
Other deliverables for this project, which may be specific to the your organization, will be determined during an initial conversation between your organization and instructor. Deliverables will be finalized during the initial meeting with the student team.
Project Examples
Teams of 3-5 will spend up to 300 cumulative hours working with your organization to develop recommendations to assist you in achieving your organizational objectives.
If you have a challenge or opportunity with any of the following activities, students from the Information Systems Business Analysis program can help:
- Strategic Market & Business Analysis: Business Case Development, Opportunity Analysis
- Digital Product Development or Enhancement: Product Analysis, Definition, and Scoping.
- Determination of Client/Customer Needs: Identification of Customer Segments, Creation of Personas & Client Characteristics
- Functional Requirements: Definition of what your technology solution must-do for end-users
- Interface Requirements and UI/UX Design: Defining and validating the interactions between your solution and users
- Solution Specifications: Detailing and Modelling the system so that developers are able to build it
- Testing and QA: Ensuring that the solution meets the requirements as defined
- Change Management: Communicating, Training, and creating SOPs for end users.
Beyond Business Analysis tasks as described, many of our students enter the program with very strong backgrounds and experience, in both business and technology disciplines. Additional projects examples include:
- Business Data Analytics: Capture, analyze, and visualize data
- Robotics Process Automation (RPA): Create automated ‘bots’, enabling businesses to increase efficiency through small scale automation.
- Business Process Analysis: Students are introduced to lean and six-sigma analysis perspectives, as well as various Process Analysis notation techniques such as Flowcharting, BPMN, and UML
- QA and Testing: Students are introduced to tools and techniques to ensure that solution QA and User acceptance is completed and meets the needs as defined by requirements.
- User Interface Design and User Experience (UI/UX): Support work leading into user designs and interaction. Use requirements models to prepare business analysis deliverables.
Additional company criteria
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
Partnering organizations are expected to guide and mentor the students over the duration of the internship. Instructor can be contacted should the employer have challenges with the students, but all of the thinking and solution-finding will be from the students.
Provide a dedicated contact who is available to answer periodic emails or phone calls over the duration of the project to address students' questions.
Be available for a quick phone call with the instructor to initiate your relationship and confirm your scope is an appropriate fit for the course.
Providing any internal data sources or access to data sources at the commencement of the project.
Provide a 1 page proposal brief that outlines the project background and proposed scope. The brief should include how sponsors would like to see student engagement, what processes or approaches they use to create new artifacts, functions, or modules, and how students can optimally support their vision.