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CASE STUDY: PALMER DIVIDE VINEYARDS-BUSINESS GOALS, OBJECTIVES, AND NEED

As you become more involved with your Palmer Divide Vineyards work, you decide that you need to take a quick look at the organization's existing business goals, objectives, and needs as part of your current state analysis. As discussed in a recent team meeting, you would like to make sure you have it right. The team is curious about how the green initiative and your IT requirements development part of it fit into the organization's strategic plan. The team likes the idea of becoming a certified Green Business. However, they would like to validate how this business goal fits with the organization's long-term strategy and make sure that the project is really worth doing.

There are many aspects to attaining green certification, and the winery has initiated this current project to help achieve this strategic goal. A business objective for this effort is to conserve 20 percent of the current energy and water resource consumption within the next 18 months. The business need triggering the project came from combining the owner's strategic plans, a desire to operate an organic winery, and a perceived market advantage from selling green-labelled organic wines to the public.

QUESTIONS:

1. According to the case study what output contains the results of the business analyst assessing the capability gaps between existing and new capabilities of the organization?

2. When analyzing the current state, the business analyst looks at the scope of decision making at different levels in the organization. Explain what elements of the current state are they looking at?

3. Which business analysis technique allows the business analyst to leverage existing materials to analyze the current state of the enterprise relative to a business need?