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Business Process Challenges: Human Related or Software Related?

Posted by Adrian Montgomery on Thu, May 16, 2013 @ 01:12 PM
Business Process Efficiency

We are covering the eight steps to conducting a Business Process Assessment in this blog series.  Learn how to unleash profits by finding ways to work more efficiently.  In previous blogs we covered; how to compare current ERP systems to new goals, how to create a business process project management committee, who to nominate as the business process project management committee leader, how to develop a comprehensive business process anlysis document to measure and assess the existing business processes, how to define your milestone and project projections and how to prepare a project time line.

In our sixth part of this series we will cover how to determine if your business process challenges are human related or software related.  We will take into consideration technology, people and company organizational goals.  This part of the business process assessment targets results and goals of organizational tasks.  

First, we consider the current company technology business processes within each company department by reviewing the following 5 bullets:

  1. Business Process Automation Design
  2. Business Process Execution
  3. Business Process Integration
  4. Business Process Documentation
  5. Business Process Measurement
Second, we consider human related business processes:
  1. Strategy and Leadership
  2. Business Process Performance Training
  3. Business Process and Management Measurement
Each criteria above is measured on a 5 point scale, 5 being the best.  A score of 5 means the department has reached maximum efficiency, therefore the process cannot be improved, where a score of 2 would mean; business process improvement is needed.
This part of the business process assessment reveals business process performance problems, process management problems, performance improvement targets, measures against improvement efforts and assists to identify training needs.

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Business Process Analysis: Develop Department Specific Questions

Posted by Adrian Montgomery on Mon, Jan 14, 2013 @ 02:12 PM
Business Valuation India

This the third part of our eight part series describing why every business should incorporate a Business Process Assessment.  In previous blogs we discussed the importance of creating a Business Process Project Management Committee and electing a leader to represent each department within a company.  The third step is to develop a comprehensive business process analysis document with a series of questions.  

The business process analysis is a series of questions each department in the company is required to answer.  This gives the business process management committee a blueprint of the business process opportunities to improve between departments in a company.  The answers to these questions serve to reveal bottlenecks within a company and improve on efficiency.

Examples of questions a business process assessment would ask the Accounts Payable (AP) department include:

  1. What is your check writing procedure?
  2. How are AP cash requirements determined?
  3. Are there requirements for prepayments to vendors?
The business process analysis is a comprehensive examination of each department within a company.  The business project management committee develops a list of questions the business project managment department leader is assigned to answer with the help of employees within the each department.  This gives the employees the opportunity to contribute to the discovery process and the ultimate solution associated with each problem. Each answer should associate a weight of importance, i.e. low priority = 1, medium priority = 2, high priority = 3 and essential = 4.  This will give you an immediate snapshot of the most important issues to focus on first.
If it is discovered there is a need to replace the business process automation software or improve upon the current systems via enhancements it is our experience the employees will likely accept that change easier and take ownership in making the software change successful.

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What is a Business Process Project Management Committee?

Posted by Adrian Montgomery on Thu, Jan 03, 2013 @ 04:45 PM
Project Management Lifecycle

The Business Process Project Management Committee is a group within an organization assigned to maintain the health of interdepartmental business processes and dependencies. Usually an organization will form a Business Process Project Management committee to measure the efficiencies of human and software related business processes.

Each department within an organization elects a Business Process Project Management Committee representative.  Each department representative is asked a series of questions to identify human and software related bottlenecks and inefficiencies.  The department employee surveys the department to identify opportunities to improve and reports the information back to the Business Process Project Management Committee.

The Business Process management Committee then determines how to solve the inefficiencies through employee training or implementation of business process automation software.  If the Business Process management Committee decides the inefficiencies are Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software related the committee will define the business process management objectives and write a request for proposal from ERP software vendors.  Once the ERP software selection is final the Business Process Management committee overseas the new ERP software related implementation to insure it meets the objectives of resolving the business process inefficiencies.

The Business Process management Committee focuses on the following objectives during ERP software implementation related projects

  • Consistent program and project execution
  • Meeting commitments
  • Staying within the parameters to measure progress across the entire organization
  • Employee project inclusiveness
  • Employee culture change

If you are interested in learning more about Business Process Management or Business process assessments please contact us to learn more!

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