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Business Process Reengineering for Competitive Advantage

 
Course: 381     Type: Course Workshop     Duration: 4 Days

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You Will Learn How To
  • Select, organize and implement a business reengineering project using CLAMBRE/UML
  • Achieve competitive advantage by capitalizing on technology opportunities and the application of UML tools
  • Maximize 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 best practice through the application of business patterns

Course Benefits
Faced with a rapidly changing business environment, organizations are under pressure to effect dramatic performance improvements. Business process reengineering (BPR) improves productivity through redesign, innovation and the enabling power of modern technology. In this course, you gain the critical skills needed to implement BPR within your organization. It provides a use case-driven approach utilizing proven tools and techniques for reengineering key elements of your business.

Who Should Attend
Individuals considering, leading, or participating in restructuring or reengineering key business processes.

Course Workshop
Workshops and demonstrations, which provide you with key skills of the reengineering process, include:
  • Profiling the customer
  • Determining anomalies in worker roles & responsibilities
  • Mapping essential business processes using UML
  • Incorporating business patterns for knowledge reuse
  • Identifying symptoms of process dysfunction
  • Streamlining the organization
  • Establishing the process boundary with UML use case diagrams
  • Describing workflow using UML activity diagrams
  • Eliminating process redundancy
  • Simulating a business process

Course 381 Content
Introduction and Overview
The what and why of business process reengineering (BPR)
  • Maximizing competitive advantage through radical redesign
  • The need for reengineering
  • Determining what reengineering is, and is not
  • Focusing on the business process
  • Achieving cost reduction and revenue generation goals
Applying the proven CLAMBRE/UML framework for reengineering
  • Overview of UML techniques
  • 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 generalization
  • Establishing an accurate customer profile
Documenting customer values and needs
  • Service provision vs. product supply
  • Evaluating customer satisfaction: quality, flexibility, speed, cost, service
  • Categorizing customer relationships using the PRIDE checklist
  • Applying QFD to link customer requirements with supplied components
Modeling the Business Process
Pinpointing processes for reengineering
  • Uncovering core business processes
  • Choosing suitable metrics to assess process performance
  • Detecting business process antipatterns
Describing worker roles and responsibilities using UML techniques
  • Identifying anomalies in worker roles using cross-reference matrices
  • Mapping a business process using activity diagrams
  • Partitioning activities between roles
Analyzing the Business Process
Detailing business processes
  • Selecting appropriate UML tools
  • Scoping the process with UML use case diagrams
  • Pinpointing key business actors
  • Modeling alternative workflows
  • Catching ineffective business activities
Exploring the business structure
  • Revisiting organization infrastructure
  • Mapping information using class diagrams
  • UML business stereotypes
  • Designating process architecture with communication diagrams
  • Removing restrictive structures
Maximizing the benefits of information technology
  • Web-enabled technology and RSS
  • Interaction through social spaces
  • Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
  • Business intelligence solutions
  • E-commerce: B2B and B2C
Redesigning the Business Process
Redefining customer-process boundaries
  • Adapting the business process to benefit specific customer types
  • Integrating and capitalizing on technology opportunities
  • Personalizing the process
  • Meeting and exceeding customer expectations
Creating the new process using best business practice
  • Incorporating business patterns
  • Resolving process anomalies
  • Comparing strategic alternatives
  • Ensuring durable, reliable information management
Rolling Out the Reengineered Process
  • Reeducating the workforce
  • Linking metrics with customer satisfaction
  • Supporting ongoing process improvement
  • Monitoring and measuring results
  • Demonstrating success

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$ 2,650 Standard Tuition
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$ 1,660 10-Day Pass
$ 1,665 Training Passport
$ 1,830 Flex-Pass
$ 2,095 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,385 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,360 Government Discount
 

 

Business Process Reengineering for Competitive Advantage
Business Process Reengineering for Competitive Advantage
Participants mapping essential business processes using UML.


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