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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

Introduction and Overview

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

  • Securing competitive advantage through radical redesign
  • The imperative for re-engineering
  • Distinguishing what re-engineering entails and does not
  • Concentrating on the core business process
  • Meeting objectives for cost reduction and revenue generation

Utilising the proven CLAMBRE/UML framework for re-engineering

  • Modelling standards: UML and BPMN
  • Differentiating customers from stakeholders
  • Identifying key activities and information structures
  • Encouraging creative right-brain thinking

Focusing on the Customer

Investigating the customer interface

  • Expanding customer roles through aggregation
  • Refining customer types via generalisation
  • Establishing precise customer profiles

Documenting customer values and requirements

  • Service delivery versus product provision
  • Assessing customer satisfaction: quality, flexibility, speed, cost, and service
  • Categorising customer relationships using the PRIDE checklist
  • Evaluating the effectiveness of the business process in meeting customer needs

Modelling the Business Process

Identifying processes for re-engineering

  • Identifying core business processes
  • Selecting appropriate metrics to evaluate process performance
  • Recognising business process antipatterns
  • Presenting insights to senior leadership

Defining worker roles and responsibilities

  • Detecting irregularities in worker roles using cross-reference matrices
  • Mapping the business process using UML activity diagrams
  • Distributing activities among different roles

Analysing the Business Process

Elaborating on business processes

  • Choosing suitable UML tools
  • Defining process scope with UML use case diagrams
  • Identifying principal business actors
  • Modelling alternative workflows
  • Documenting inefficient business activities

Examining the business structure

  • Reviewing organisational infrastructure
  • Mapping information using class diagrams
  • Applying UML business stereotypes
  • Designating process architecture with communication diagrams
  • Eliminating restrictive structures

Redesigning the Business Process

Optimising the benefits of information technology

  • Web-enabled technology
  • Engagement through social spaces
  • Designing resilient, future-ready business systems
  • Business intelligence solutions
  • Enterprise Information Systems

Redefining customer-process boundaries

  • Tailoring the business process to benefit specific customer segments
  • Leveraging and integrating technology opportunities
  • Personalising the process
  • Exceeding customer expectations

Constructing the new process using best business practice

  • Incorporating established business patterns
  • Resolving process anomalies
  • Evaluating strategic alternatives
  • Ensuring robust, reliable information management

Implementing the Re-engineered Process

  • Re-training the workforce
  • Aligning metrics with customer satisfaction
  • Supporting continuous process improvement
  • Monitoring and measuring outcomes
  • Demonstrating success

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