Business Process Re-engineering for Competitive Advantage Training Course

Overview

The course will cover how to:

  • Select, organise and implement a business re-engineering project
  • Achieve competitive advantage by capitalising on technology and the use of UML tools
  • Maximise customer satisfaction by matching process design to customer needs
  • Identify typical symptoms of business process dysfunction
  • Redesign workflow and structure successfully within the business
  • Ensure the best practice through the application of business patterns

Course Outline

Introduction and Overview

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

  • Maximising competitive advantage through radical redesign
  • The need for re-engineering
  • Determining what re-engineering is and is not
  • Focusing on the business process
  • Achieving cost reduction and revenue generation goals

Applying the proven CLAMBRE/UML framework for re-engineering

  • Modelling standards: UML and BPMN
  • Customers vs. stakeholders
  • Identifying activities and information structure
  • Creative right-brain thinking

Targeting the Customer

Exploring the customer interface

  • Expanding customer roles with aggregation
  • Refining customer types using generalisation
  • Establishing an accurate customer profile

Documenting customer values and needs

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

Modelling 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

Analysing the Business Process

Detailing business processes

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

Exploring the business structure

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

Redesigning the Business Process

Maximising 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 capitalising on technology opportunities
  • Personalising the process
  • Meeting and exceeding customer expectations

Creating the new process using the 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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