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Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Time: 7:00 PM-8:00 PM Eastern Time (ET)
Location: Online
Attend Free! - registration required
 
 
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Event Description
Running a small business requires constant decision-making, yet many entrepreneurs lack structured methods for analyzing problems and choosing the best course of action. Without good tools, they might revert to making decisions based on instinct, leading to missed opportunities or costly mistakes.

In this session, we’ll explore how to scale down business analysis practices for maximum impact in small business environments. We’ll examine core techniques that offer big value with lower effort when resources are scarce. We’ll also discuss how to adapt them to the realities of small business decision-making.

By the end of this session, you’ll be equipped with a streamlined, high-value BA toolkit designed for small business. Whether you’re consulting, mentoring, or embedding business analysis into a small-scale operation, you’ll gain actionable insights on how to apply "just enough" business analysis.

Key Learnings
 
By the end of this session you will:
  • Learn a framework for clarifying your true problems or opportunities.
  • Choose success measures that make sense for your context.
  • Know of business analysis techniques that can be scaled to fit your needs.
  • Understand how small, inexpensive tests can illuminate opportunities.
 
 
Speaker Bio: Tamara Copple
Tamara Copple is cofounder and Lead Business Consultant for Grand River Analytics and a product owner for international nonprofit Children International. She is a speaker and community organizer for multiple professional groups. Always a business analyst at heart, Tamara mentors tech and tech-adjacent professionals in mastering their craft so that they can achieve better results for themselves and their teams.
 
 
 
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