What Is Business Process Analysis?
What Is Business Process Analysis?
What Is Business Process Analysis?
Analysis (BPA)
The Key to Success in a Changing
Environment
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Why is BPA Necessary?
Enterprises must constantly improve processes to thrive in a
changing environment.
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Important Terms
Business Process
Customer
Methodology
Method
Tool
Process Management
BPA’s Focus
While CPI and BPI focus on incremental change in sets of
processes, BPA’s focus spans several processes and ultimately
involves a paradigm shift in the way an enterprise does business.
BPA
CPI BPI
Continuous Process Improvement Business Process Improvement
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Incremental Improvement with BPA
Organization
Process
People
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BPA’s External Focus
Anticipate the need for
and implement change
Respond quickly to
changing market
trends
Provide a variety of
products without
incurring added costs
Satisfy customers and
build a stable customer
base
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The Four Phases of BPA
Phase 1: Project Definition
Business Case Analysis
Critical Issue/Critical Process Identification
Phase 2: As-Is Process Description/Analysis
As-Is Disconnect/Root Cause Analysis
Phase 3: To-Be Process Design/Validation
Cost/Time/Productivity/Quality
System Requirements Definition
To-Be Performance Validation/Simulation
Phase 4: Implementation Planning
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The Keys to Successful BPA
Strategic Planning to create roadmap for success
Implementation Monitoring
Team
Structured Automated
Techniques
Methods Tools Support
Methodology
Framework
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BPA Methods & Techniques
IDEF Family of Methods
Performance Benchmarking
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Software Tools Facilitate BPA
Efficient Knowledge Capture
Increased Informational Integrity
Graphical Representations
Common Data Repository
Method Enforcement
Cross-platform Capabilities
Integrated Approach
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Automating the BPA Process
What do you do?
IExplorer®
EasyABC®
AIØ WIN®
What does it cost?
SMARTCOST™
PROSIM®
Complete Data
Interchange
PROJECTLINK™
SMARTER™
Databases
ODBC — Access™ Project Management
SQL — ORACLE® & SQL Server™
What information do you need?
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Emerging Business Trends
Seamless networks between enterprises
Disintegration of boundaries between commercial
and government enterprises
Worldwide information infrastructure
Emerging international standards
Global markets
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BPA
Review & Questions
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