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Course Outline

Introduction and Overview

Understanding the Purpose and Definition of Business Process Reengineering (BPR)

  • Driving competitive advantage through radical redesign
  • Understanding the necessity for reengineering
  • Clarifying what constitutes reengineering and what does not
  • Centering focus on business processes
  • Meeting objectives for cost reduction and revenue growth

Utilizing the Established CLAMBRE/UML Framework for Reengineering

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

Focusing on the Customer

Examining the Customer Interface

  • Expanding customer roles through aggregation
  • Refining customer categories using generalization
  • Developing an accurate customer profile

Documenting Customer Values and Needs

  • Service provision versus product supply
  • Evaluating customer satisfaction: quality, flexibility, speed, cost, and service
  • Categorizing customer relationships using the PRIDE checklist
  • Assessing how effectively the business process fulfills customer needs

Modeling the Business Process

Identifying Processes for Reengineering

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

Defining Worker Roles and Responsibilities

  • Identifying anomalies in worker roles using cross-reference matrices
  • Mapping business processes with UML activity diagrams
  • Allocating activities among different roles

Analyzing the Business Process

Detailing Business Processes

  • Selecting suitable UML tools
  • Scoping the process with UML use case diagrams
  • Identifying key business actors
  • Modeling alternative workflows
  • Capturing ineffective business activities

Exploring the Business Structure

  • Revisiting organizational infrastructure
  • Mapping information using class diagrams
  • UML business stereotypes
  • Designating process architecture with communication diagrams
  • Eliminating restrictive structures

Redesigning the Business Process

Maximizing 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
  • Personalizing the process
  • Meeting and exceeding customer expectations

Developing the New Process Using Best Business Practices

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

Implementing the Reengineered Process

  • Retraining the workforce
  • Linking metrics with customer satisfaction
  • Supporting continuous process improvement
  • Monitoring and measuring results
  • Demonstrating success
 21 Hours

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