You are required to discuss 8 of the following 15 roles of the business analyst. Your frame of reference can be a current or former organisation that you have worked for or an organisation that you are familiar with. You are required to address 8 of the following roles.

1)Intermediary
2)Filter
3)Mediator
4)Diplomat
5)Politician
6)Investigator
7)Analyst
8)Change Agent
9)Quality Control Specialist
10)Facilitator
11)Process Improver
12)Increase the Value of an Organisational Business Processes
13)Build It and They Will Come
14)Reducing Complexity
15)Playing Multiple Roles

You should describe the work activities associated with the various roles including the tools, techniques and competencies that business analysts use. You should discuss these roles in light of how existing literature portrays the role of the business analyst, the significance of those roles, and analyse the challenges for business analysts as they carry out those roles.

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