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Introduction and Overview

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

  • Achieving competitive advantage through radical redesign
  • Understanding the imperative for re-engineering
  • Defining the scope of re-engineering: what it is and what it is not
  • Centring efforts on the business process
  • Meeting cost reduction and revenue generation objectives

Applying the proven CLAMBRE/UML framework for re-engineering

  • Modelling standards: Utilising UML and BPMN
  • Distinguishing between customers and stakeholders
  • Identifying key activities and information structures
  • Fostering creative, right-brain thinking

Targeting the Customer

Exploring the customer interface

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

Documenting customer values and needs

  • Differentiating service provision from product supply
  • Evaluating customer satisfaction across quality, flexibility, speed, cost, and service
  • Categorising customer relationships using the PRIDE checklist
  • Assessing how well the business process fulfils customer requirements

Modelling the Business Process

Pinpointing processes for re-engineering

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

Describing worker roles and responsibilities

  • Identifying role anomalies using cross-reference matrices
  • Mapping business processes via UML activity diagrams
  • Distributing activities among defined roles

Analysing the Business Process

Detailing business processes

  • Selecting the most suitable UML tools
  • Defining process scope with UML use case diagrams
  • Identifying critical business actors
  • Modelling alternative workflow scenarios
  • Capturing inefficient business activities

Exploring the business structure

  • Revisiting 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 benefits of information technology

  • Leveraging web-enabled technology
  • Facilitating interaction through social spaces
  • Designing scalable, future-proof business systems
  • Implementing business intelligence solutions
  • Integrating Enterprise Information Systems

Redefining customer-process boundaries

  • Tailoring the business process to benefit specific customer segments
  • Integrating and capitalising on technology opportunities
  • Personalising the process experience
  • Exceeding customer expectations

Creating the new process using the best business practice

  • Incorporating proven business patterns
  • Resolving process anomalies
  • Evaluating strategic alternatives
  • Ensuring robust and reliable information management

Rolling Out the Re-engineered Process

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