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Course Outline

Introduction and Overview

Understanding the nature and purpose of business process re-engineering (BPR)

  • Enhancing competitive advantage through comprehensive redesign
  • The necessity for re-engineering
  • Defining the scope of re-engineering and its limitations
  • Concentrating on the business process
  • Meeting objectives related to cost savings and revenue growth

Utilising the established CLAMBRE/UML framework for re-engineering

  • Modelling conventions: UML and BPMN
  • Distinguishing between customers and stakeholders
  • Recognising activities and information architecture
  • Encouraging creative, right-brain thinking

Focusing on the Customer

Examining the customer interaction

  • Broadening customer roles through aggregation
  • Refining customer categories using generalisation
  • Building an accurate customer profile

Recording customer values and requirements

  • Providing services versus supplying products
  • Assessing customer satisfaction: quality, flexibility, speed, cost, and service
  • Classifying customer relationships using the PRIDE checklist
  • Evaluating how well the business process fulfils customer needs

Modelling the Business Process

Selecting processes for re-engineering

  • Identifying core business processes
  • Selecting appropriate metrics to gauge process performance
  • Recognising business process antipatterns
  • Reporting findings to senior leadership

Defining worker roles and responsibilities

  • Spotting irregularities in worker roles using cross-reference matrices
  • Charting a business process with UML activity diagrams
  • Distributing activities across various roles

Analysing the Business Process

Elaborating on business processes

  • Choosing suitable UML tools
  • Defining process boundaries with UML use case diagrams
  • Identifying key business actors
  • Modelling alternative workflows
  • Recording ineffective business activities

Investigating the business structure

  • Reviewing organisational infrastructure
  • Mapping information flow using class diagrams
  • Applying UML business stereotypes
  • Defining process architecture with communication diagrams
  • Eliminating restrictive structural elements

Redesigning the Business Process

Maximising the advantages of information technology

  • Web-enabled technology
  • Interaction via social spaces
  • Designing forward-thinking business systems
  • Business intelligence solutions
  • Enterprise Information Systems

Re-establishing customer-process boundaries

  • Tailoring the business process to serve specific customer segments
  • Integrating and capitalising on technological opportunities
  • Personalising the process
  • Satisfying and surpassing customer expectations

Developing the new process based on optimal business practices

  • Implementing business patterns
  • Addressing process anomalies
  • Evaluating strategic alternatives
  • Ensuring robust and reliable information management

Implementing the Re-engineered Process

  • Re-training the workforce
  • Aligning metrics with customer satisfaction
  • Fostering continuous process improvement
  • Monitoring and evaluating outcomes
  • Demonstrating successful implementation
 21 Hours

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