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Introduction and Overview

Understanding the fundamentals and rationale of business process re-engineering (BPR)

  • Driving competitive advantage through radical redesign
  • The necessity of re-engineering
  • Defining what constitutes re-engineering and what does not
  • Focusing on the business process itself
  • Achieving goals for cost reduction and revenue generation

Utilizing the proven CLAMBRE/UML framework for re-engineering

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

Focusing on the Customer

Investigating the customer interface

  • Expanding customer roles through aggregation
  • Refining customer types using generalization
  • Creating an accurate customer profile

Documenting customer values and requirements

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

Modeling the Business Process

Identifying processes for re-engineering

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

Describing worker roles and responsibilities

  • Identifying role anomalies using cross-reference matrices
  • Mapping a business process with UML activity diagrams
  • Partitioning activities among roles

Analyzing the Business Process

Detailing business processes

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

Exploring the business structure

  • Reviewing 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 capitalizing on technology opportunities
  • Personalizing the process
  • Meeting and exceeding customer expectations

Creating the new process using 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
  • Linking metrics with customer satisfaction
  • Supporting ongoing process improvement
  • Monitoring and measuring results
  • Demonstrating success
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