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Course Outline

Introduction and Overview

Understanding Business Process Re-engineering (BPR)

  • Leveraging radical redesign for competitive advantage
  • The necessity of re-engineering
  • Clarifying what re-engineering is and is not
  • Focusing on the core business process
  • Achieving cost reduction and revenue generation goals

Applying the CLAMBRE/UML Framework

  • Modeling standards: UML and BPMN
  • Customers vs. stakeholders
  • Identifying activities and information structures
  • Employing creative, right-brain thinking

Targeting the Customer

Exploring the Customer Interface

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

Documenting Customer Values and Needs

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

Modeling the Business Process

Pinpointing Processes for Re-engineering

  • Uncovering core business processes
  • Choosing suitable metrics to assess process performance
  • Detecting business process antipatterns
  • Presenting findings to senior management

Describing Worker Roles and Responsibilities

  • Identifying anomalies in worker roles using cross-reference matrices
  • Mapping a business process using UML activity diagrams
  • Partitioning activities between roles

Analyzing the Business Process

Detailing Business Processes

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

Exploring the Business Structure

  • Revisiting organization infrastructure
  • Mapping information using class diagrams
  • UML business stereotypes
  • Designating process architecture with communication diagrams
  • Removing 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 types
  • Integrating and capitalizing on technology opportunities
  • Personalizing the process
  • Meeting and exceeding customer expectations

Creating the New Process Using Best Business Practices

  • 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
 21 Hours

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