Glossary
Management Analyst Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential management analyst terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key management analyst vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in management analyst training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Benchmarking
- Comparing to others.
- Billable hours
- Time charged to clients.
- Business case
- Argument for a change.
- Change management
- Helping people adopt change.
- Current state
- How things work now.
- Deliverable
- Promised output.
- Engagement
- A consulting project.
- Future state
- How they should work.
- Hypothesis-driven
- Testing likely answers.
- Implementation
- Putting changes in place.
- MECE
- Mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive.
- Process map
- Diagram of steps.
- Root cause analysis
- Finding the real cause.
- Scope
- What the project covers.
- Stakeholder
- Person affected.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Management Analyst practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Management Analyst training.
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