... |23rd March | | |2011 | | | | ROLE OF IT IN BPR Submitted By Abhinav Johnson (F09001) Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 4 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN IT & BPR 6 IT Capabilities and Reengineering 6 Phase 1: before the process is designed (as an enabler) 7 Phase 2: while the process is being designed (as a facilitator) 9 Phase 3: after the design is complete (as an implementer) 13 ROLE OF IT IN REENGINEERING 16 Principles of Reengineering by Hammer 17 BPR – The Current focus in IT 20 Concept of Database 20 Data Mining: 20 Data Warehousing 21 STRATEGIC USES OF IT AND CRITICALITY OF IT 22 BPR TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES 23 The Nature of IT Support for BPR 23 Integrated Enterprise Models 24 Analysis 26 Software Functionality 28 New ways of building models 29 Communication and Visualization 30 Intended Users 30 Evaluation Criteria 31 ...
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...Business process outsourcing (BPO) is a subset of outsourcing that involves the contracting of the operations and responsibilities of specific business functions (or processes) to a third-party service provider. Originally, this was associated with manufacturing firms, such as Coca Cola that outsourced large segments of its supply chain. In the contemporary context, it is primarily used to refer to the outsourcing of business processing services to an outside firm, replacing in-house services with labour from an outside firm. BPO is typically categorized into back office outsourcing - which includes internal business functions such as human resources or finance and accounting, and front office outsourcing - which includes customer-related services such as contact centre services. BPO that is contracted outside a company's country is called offshore outsourcing. BPO that is contracted to a company's neighbouring (or nearby) country is called near shore outsourcing. Often the business processes are information technology-based, and are referred to as ITES-BPO, where ITES stands for Information Technology Enabled Service. Knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) and legal process outsourcing (LPO) are some of the sub-segments of business process outsourcing industry. Benefits and limitations An advantage of BPO is the way in which it helps to increase a company’s flexibility. However, several sources have different ways in which they perceive organizational flexibility. Therefore...
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...Business Process Management Methodology 1 Introduction From Wikipedia, we copy: «A business process is a set of linked activities that create value by transforming an input into a more valuable output. Both input and output can be artifacts and/or information and the transformation can be performed by human actors, machines, or both. There are three types of business processes: 1. Management processes - the processes that govern the operation. Typical management processes include "Corporate Governance" and "Strategic Management". 2. Operational processes - these processes create the primary value stream, they are part of the core business. Typical operational processes are Purchasing, Manufacturing, Marketing, and Sales. 3. Supporting processes - these support the core processes. Examples include Accounting, Recruitment, IT-support. A business process can be decomposed into several sub-processes, which have their own attributes, but also contribute to achieving the goal of the super-process. The analysis of business processes typically includes the mapping of processes and sub-processes down to activity level. Activities are parts of the business process that do not include any decision making and thus are not worth decomposing (although decomposition would be possible), such as "Answer the phone", "produce an invoice".» A business process is a systematic approach of the enterprise, where its activities are examined as revenue generating and value adding transformations of...
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...University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen TU Dortmund University, Germany Madhu Sudan Microsoft Research, Cambridge, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbruecken, Germany Richard Hull Jan Mendling Stefan Tai (Eds.) Business Process Management 8th International Conference, BPM 2010 Hoboken, NJ, USA, September 13-16, 2010 Proceedings 13 Volume Editors Richard Hull IBM Research, Thomas J. Watson Research Center 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532, USA E-mail: hull@us.ibm.com Jan Mendling Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany E-mail: contact@mendling.com Stefan Tai Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Englerstraße 11, Gebäude 11.40, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany E-mail: stefan.tai@kit.edu Library of Congress Control Number: 2010933361 CR Subject Classification (1998): D.2, F.3, D.3, D.1, D.2.4, F.2 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 3 – Information Systems and Application, incl. Internet/Web and HCI...
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...paper we are going to review three journal articles based on Business Process Modeling and Simulation. These articles explain the importance of business process modeling and simulation in business processes. Authors discuss how modeling and simulation is done. We start with some information about the business processes explained by the authors then we will discuss business process modeling and methods of modeling. We will also go through how simulation modeling helps to evaluate alternate business process strategies. We will also discuss benefits of simulation of business process modeling. The purpose of this paper is to give readers idea about the journal articles, whether they are worth reading and importance of these articles and how these articles will help to understand Business Process Modeling and Simulation. INTRODUCTION: Ray J. Paul, Vlatka Hlupic and George M. Giaglis explained in their article that due to increasing competition, organizations need to make major changes in their each step of business process. BPR (Business Process Re-engineering) helps an organization to enhance the business process and also creates new ways in order to gain a competitive edge in a real market. BPR helps to redesign the business system for the enhancement of an organization. Many organizations faced a failure because of many factors such as difficulty in adapting new process, cost to redesign the whole process and lack of equipment’s to predict the effect before the implementation...
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...MIS5000 Business Process Reengineering Group 2 Bonifacio, Faye | Dy, Maria Christina | Lim, Alexander OBJECTIVE To understand the foundation of business processes, the groundwork of business process reengineering and the role IT in business process reengineering. ROAD MAP I. Business Process a. Definition b. Business Process Improvement II. Business Process Reengineering c. What? d. Why e. When? f. Who? g. How? h. Advantages and Benefits of BPR i. Critiques about BPR III. The Role of IT j. Relationship between IT and BPR k. Role of IT in Reengineering l. Importance of IT m. Role of CIOs n. Future Role of IT in BPR IV. Application of BPR I. BUSINESS PROCESS a. DEFINITION "If you have ever waited in line at the grocery store, you can appreciate the need for process improvement. In this case, the "process" is called the check-out process, and the purpose of the process is to pay for and bag your groceries. The process begins with you stepping into line, and ends with you receiving your receipt and leaving the store. You are the customer (you have the money and you have come to buy food), and the store is the supplier The process steps are the activities that you and the store personnel do to complete the transaction. In this simple example, we have described a business process. Imagine other business processes: ordering clothes from...
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...Today companies are facing fast changing business environment, changing customer needs and expectations, fast changing technologies and product life cycles in globalization within this environment today’s managers has to ensure long term business for their company. And in growing market its now important respond to this by investing in innovative new product and marketing strategies, but they also have to concern about optimising cost, time scale, product recourses in order to increase efficiency. Processes acts as building blocks of an enterprise and it include all the employees and systems that exist within enterprise. Therefore every company has to manage their business processes. At this situation “Business Process Management (BPM)” theories comes in to action. "BPM is a management practice that provides for governance of a business's process environment toward the goal of improving agility and operational performance. BPM is a structured approach employing methods, policies, metrics, management practices and software tools to manage and continuously optimize an organization's activities and processes." – David McCoy, Gartner Research Report In this report I explain about how BPM benefits to enterprise using real world examples. I research about following enterprises/organizations which implement BPM. Midwestern hospital Case Study. Let’s take Midwestern Hospital case study. It’s one of the largest and Popular Cancer Hospitals in United States. In order to gain more...
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...Business Process Outsourcing Introduction Business process outsourcing (BPO) is a subset of outsourcing that involves the contracting of the operations and responsibilities of specific business functions (or processes) to a third-party service provider. Originally, this was associated with manufacturing firms, such as Coca Cola that outsourced large segments of its supply chain. BPO is typically categorized into back office outsourcing - which includes internal business functions such as human resources or finance and accounting, and front office outsourcing - which includes customer-related services such as contact center services. BPO that is contracted outside a company's country is called offshore outsourcing. BPO that is contracted to a company's neighboring (or nearby) country is called near shore outsourcing. Often the business processes are information technology-based, and are referred to as ITES-BPO, where ITES stands for Information Technology Enabled Service. Knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) and legal process outsourcing (LPO) are some of the sub-segments of business process outsourcing industry. In 2010, the Philippines surpassed India as the largest business process outsourcing industry in the world. After growing 20 per cent in 2012, the BPO industry of the Philippines is estimated to gross revenue of upwards to $25 billion by 2016. By these estimates, the Philippines' BPO industry will account for approximately 10 per cent of the nation's GDP. History...
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...Changes in BPM[edit] Roughly speaking, the idea of business process is as traditional as concepts of tasks, department, production, and outputs..[citation needed] The management and improvement approach as of 2010, with formal definitions and technical modeling, has been around since the early 1990s (see business process modeling). Note that the IT community often uses the term "business process" as synonymous with the management of middleware processes; or as synonymous with integrating application software tasks. This viewpoint may be overly restrictive - a limitation to keep in mind when reading software engineering papers that refer to "business processes" or to "business process modeling". Although BPM initially focused on the automation of business processes with the use of information technology, it has since been extended[by whom?] to integrate human-driven processes in which human interaction takes place in series or parallel with the use of technology. For example (in workflow systems), when individual steps in the business process require deploying human intuition or judgment, these steps are assigned to appropriate members within the organization. More advanced forms such as "human interaction management"[6][7] are in the complex interaction between human workers in performing a workgroup task. In this case, many people and systems interact in structured, ad hoc, and sometimes completely dynamic ways to complete one to many transactions. BPM can be used to understand...
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...Business Process and Strategy NAME: Professor: Institution: Course: Date: Introduction Xactly is a software company offering science oriented solutions on incentive compensation programs and performance management. The company develops software that enables other companies survive in this fast changing technological environment by enabling them shift from the old complex paradigm of using sales compensation incentives based on spreadsheets to cloud based sales compensation incentive programs. This helps them manage, design, and optimize sales compensation incentives hence saving on costs, time, reducing risk, and aligning workers behaviors with company goals. Magal and Word (2009) argued that, “business processes are the tasks of activities that companies use to produce goods or services, and these activities are supported by Information and Communication Technology (ICT), such as computers, the internet and information systems." Therefore, it is imperative that the company’s business processes are aligned to its business strategies. Xactly’s business strategy of mass customization lieu industrial standardization calls for targeted focus and stringent campaign co-ordination, which are essential for promoting an enabling environment for continuous growth and improvement. Xactly also recognizes that constant communication is imperative for building profitable relationships. Therefore, the company adopted a proactive social strategy as another business...
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...Strategic and Tactical Planning • Business Process flow and procedures This document summarizes the methodologies employed to complete the review and presents our findings and recommendations. Throughout this document we utilize terms such as will, should consider, and shall, for example, with respect to our recommendations to Dynatrix. We believe each recommendation should be evaluated and implemented after consideration of approach, cost effectiveness and the inclusion of new information in the decision. Firstly, Dynatrix has no clear defined Strategies and continues to use manual processes and systems to manage and operate. The management techniques, business processes and systems are ill prepared to excel in today’s global market. Dynatrix must accept the changes required in its current situation whilst fostering the concept of continuous improvement. Key to future success will be the requirement for all personnel to work toward a common goal that strategically aligns the organisation. The primary facets that support the notion of continuous improvement include: • Fostering an environment that will embrace the need for change by equipping staff and the firm with adequate resources; • Introducing a unified strategy that every member of the organisation can work toward to satisfy operational and strategic objectives; • Continuous improvement directed at the functional alignment of the organization and the underlying business processes to achieve day to day...
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...MPM701 BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT TRIMESTER 2, 2011 Name:Tinajit Kaur Kalwant Singh Student No: 211663781 Contribution: 33.3% Name: Howe Soo Ling Melissa Student No: 211658753 Contribution: 33.3% Name: Hui Li Student No: 211171354 Contribution: 33.3% Executive Summary The key to have a competitive advantage in an organization is to constantly improve its business processes. BPM enables effective and efficient process developments by creating an agile organization that can react quickly to customer demands, streamline business processes, enhance integrity and timeliness in production, respond accordingly to changes in business operations and policies and improve risk management capabilities through process consistency. In this context, Ben’s most urgent problem is the paper based manual methods to get things done and not having any streamlined and computer based business processes in the organization. In order to help Omnicron establish a high-efficient working process, Enterprise Resource Planning is introduced which is expected to impose positive influence on Sale, Production, Procurement, Inventory, Finance and Accounting. By implementing ERP, a number of previous crossed workflows can be integrated reasonably. At the same time all information used to be processed or saved on paper begins to be stored and shared in a central information data accessed by various relative departments, thus save time and cut cost for Omnicron...
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...Business Process Re-engineering Business process can be defined as "a set of logically related tasks performed to achieve a defined business outcome." It is "a structured, measured set of activities designed to produce a specified output for a particular customer or market." Improving business processes is important for businesses to stay ahead of competition in today's marketplace. Over the last 10 to 15 years, companies have been forced to improve their business processes because customers are demanding better products and services. Many companies begin business process improvement with a continuous improvement model. The BPR methodology comprises of developing the business vision and process objectives, identifying the processes to be redesigned, understanding and measuring the existing processes, identifying IT levers and designing and building a prototype of the new process. In this context it can be mentioned that, some of the biggest obstacles faced by reengineering are lack of sustained management commitment and leadership, unrealistic scope and expectations, and resistance to change. Business Process Reengineering (BPR) and Total Quality Management (TQM) Total Quality Management and BPR share a cross-functional relationship. Quality specialists tend to focus on incremental change and gradual improvement of processes, while proponents of reengineering often seek radical redesign and drastic improvement of processes. Quality management, often referred...
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...Implementing Business Process Management Name Budget and Performance Analyst State Bar of California Prepared for Name CFO, Department of Finance July 30, 2013 Table of Contents LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 4 ABSTRACT 5 INTRODUCTION 6 Background 6 Business Process Improvement…………….….6 Types of Process Improvement………………… 7 Problem…………………………………………………………………7 Purpose…………………………………………………………………7 Scope…………………………………………………………………..7 DISCUSSION…………………………………………………………………8 Types of process improvement………………………….8 Six Sigma………………………………………………….8 Lean………………………………………………………….9 Barriers to Business process improvement…….10 Implementing Business process improvement in the public sector…………………………………………..11 Requirements………………………………………….11 Where to Implement……….……………………..12 Results……………………………………………………..13 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………13 Recommendations……………………………………………………..14 References………………………………………………………………….15 List of Illustrations Figure 1 Five Steps of Lean………………………………………………………….9 Abstract This report investigates how business process improvement can successfully enhance the State Bar as an organization by reducing waste, increasing efficiency, improving compliance and boosting staff satisfaction. Achieving the benefits of this process improvement will allow the State Bar to continue its level of service without increases in...
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...Business process Technologies ( by Barbara, Investing the effort of BPM) Business process management technology has become an important instrument for supporting complex coordination scenarios and for improving business process performance. Providing IT support for business processes has become crucial for enterprises to stay competitive in their market. For this need there have been different process support paradigms ( workflow management, case handling, service orchestration). Workflow management and case handling systems are well suited to support business and administrative processes that are well structured and have high degree of repetition. Workflow management systems enable the modelling, execution and monitoring of business processes. A case handling aims at more flexible process execution by avoiding restrictions known from workflow technology. They have conducted experiments with students to compare workflow mgmt and case handling technology whether BPM technology and knowledge of process specification has an influence on the response variable `implementation effort’. Further, they have discussed the preparation and execution of experiment which fairly covers the analysis and interpretation of the experimental data. Finally, authors have discussed results indicated from their experiment : Process implementation based on workflow technology generate lower effort compare to implementations based on case handling technology, data indicates that growing knowledge about...
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