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 Duration 21 hours

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Introduction and Overview

The what and why of business process re-engineering (BPR)

  • Driving competitive advantage through radical redesign
  • The imperative for re-engineering
  • Defining the scope: what re-engineering is and is not
  • Centring the focus on the business process
  • Achieving objectives related to cost reduction and revenue growth

Applying the proven CLAMBRE/UML framework for re-engineering

  • Modeling standards: UML and BPMN
  • Distinguishing between customers and stakeholders
  • Identifying key activities and information structures
  • Encouraging creative, right-brain thinking

Targeting the Customer

Exploring the customer interface

  • Expanding customer roles through aggregation
  • Refining customer classifications using generalisation
  • Building an accurate customer profile

Documenting customer values and needs

  • Differentiating between service provision and product supply
  • Evaluating customer satisfaction across quality, flexibility, speed, cost, and service
  • Categorising customer relationships using the PRIDE checklist
  • Assessing the effectiveness of the business process in meeting customer needs

Modelling the Business Process

Pinpointing processes for re-engineering

  • Uncovering core business processes
  • Selecting appropriate metrics to gauge process performance
  • Detecting business process antipatterns
  • Presenting findings to senior management

Describing worker roles and responsibilities

  • Identifying role anomalies using cross-reference matrices
  • Mapping business processes using UML activity diagrams
  • Distributing activities across various roles

Analysing the Business Process

Detailing business processes

  • Selecting the appropriate UML tools
  • Defining process scope with UML use case diagrams
  • Identifying key business actors
  • Modelling alternative workflows
  • Capturing ineffective business activities

Exploring the business structure

  • Re-examining organisational infrastructure
  • Mapping information using class diagrams
  • Utilising UML business stereotypes
  • Designating process architecture with communication diagrams
  • Eliminating restrictive structures

Redesigning the Business Process

Maximising the benefits of information technology

  • Web-enabled technology
  • Interaction through social spaces
  • Designing future-proof business systems
  • Business intelligence solutions
  • Enterprise Information Systems

Redefining customer-process boundaries

  • Adapting the business process to benefit specific customer segments
  • Integrating and leveraging technology opportunities
  • Personalising the process
  • Meeting and exceeding customer expectations

Creating the new process using the best business practice

  • Incorporating business patterns
  • Resolving process anomalies
  • Comparing strategic alternatives
  • Ensuring durable, reliable information management

Rolling Out the Re-engineered Process

  • Re-educating the workforce
  • Aligning metrics with customer satisfaction
  • Supporting ongoing process improvement
  • Monitoring and measuring results
  • Demonstrating success

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