Bpm Implementation Success Criteria And Best Practice
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BPM Implementation - Success Criteria and Best Practice Alan McSweeney What is a Business Process?
- A business process is a collection of related , structured activities that produce a service or product that meet the needs of a client. These processes are critical to any organisation as they generate revenue and often represent a significant proportion of costs.
- Documenting business processes enables understanding, improvement and provides control
- Business Process Management (BPM) is a method of efficiently aligning an organisation with the wants and needs of clients
- It is a complete management approach that promotes business effectiveness and efficiency while striving for innovation, flexibility and integration with technology
- As organisations look to achieve their objectives, BPM attempts to continuously improve processes - the process to define, measure and improve your processes – a ‘process optimisation' process
- Understanding your processes are key in a number of business initiatives
- Often this is done in isolation and in different ways
- And using different tools
- Having a single repository of business process information enables…..
- Common standards
- Re-use / best practice
- Improved decision support
- Significant time savings
- = increased efficiency & effectiveness
- Save money – Do things better with optimised processes
- Build better new processes faster
- Know what you are doing (right or wrong) through current process understanding
- Get control of parallel processes by consolidating to core processes
- Get non-value added work through automation of manual processes
- Business process outsourcing
- Implement ERP software better
- Stay ahead of compliance
- Move faster through scenario building for agility and policy management
- Real benefits from BPM
- Intangible benefits also: better information quality
- Major changes must start at the top
- Ultimately, everyone must be involved
- Effective change requires a goal and knowledge of the current process
- Change is continuous
- Change will not be retained without effort and periodic reinforcement
- Improvement is continuous
- Symptoms of Poor Business Process Management and Design
- No standard process/method for addressing how to define business requirements and when to improve business processes
- When automation of processes is commissioned, “Business” says that they do not always get what they think they have asked for
- The processes used to document and communicate business processes and requirements are neither easy nor documented
- Our business programs frequently exist in a culture of reacting to cross-functional problems/emergencies
- IT has responsibility for creating and maintaining business process flows, business requirements, and business rules
- Lack of an integrated process for capturing the business domain
- Techniques that are used are not consistently applied
- We cannot/do not differentiate key stakeholders’ views and different business views
- We are working without a common language across business, IT and our other partners/vendors
- Inadequate root cause level business process analysis yields inadequate business requirements and rules to facilitate process optimisation/automation
- Lack of an integrated process for capturing the business domain
- Techniques that are used are not consistently applied
- We cannot/do not differentiate key stakeholders’ views and different business views
- We are working without a common language across business, IT and our other partners/vendors
- Inadequate root cause level business process analysis yields inadequate business requirements and rules to facilitate process optimisation/automation
- A Picture . . . .
- Provides information
- Has no enforceable rigour
- Cannot be reused easily
- Cannot be updated easily
- A Model can be . . . .
- Analysed
- Reported on
- Used to navigate through relationships
- Used for simulation
- Trigger workflows
- Used to drive business process management
- Key characteristics of right project
- The process or project is related to a key business issue
- You have/can get customer input on the issue
- Management assigns this project a high priority
- Process owner and key stakeholders are defined
- The problem is stated as a target or need and NOT a solution
- The sponsor of this project can commit time and resources to this project
- The business process(es) will not be changed by another initiative at any time in the near future
- Focus on:
- Which process is the most critical
- Which process contributes the most
- Ensure the benefits of an improvement project do not degrade over time
- Linked to business strategies and goals
- Linked to customer value
- Ability to implement incremental value added change
- Ability to track results and measure success
- Ability to be aligned with the business
- Understood the Business Architecture – Business Process, Metrics, Strategy and Goals
- Engaged stakeholders and defined process ownership
- Taken an iterative and incremental approach
- Tackled the right project at the right time
- Implemented internal and external standards and the right level of governance
- Understood the role of information
- Incorporated process improvement
- Achieve business results with a series of small successes
- The failure to manage the human side of business changes is a major contributor to the reasons programme, projects and initiatives fail
- Organisations may not have the experience necessary to manage the speed and complexity of the large-scale changes
- Managers are all too frequently concerned with tactical, operational issues and have not had the time to consider organisational changes
- Process Driven Integration
- Services Based Integration
- Cut integration costs and reduce development
- New Business Initiatives
- Agility, Growth – New Products and Services
- Increased Delivery Channels
- Process Improvement
- Optimising business processes
- Straight Through Processing
- IT Regeneration
- Enterprise IT Architecture – Aligning more with Business
- Legacy Replacement
- Extending the Enterprise
- Partnering, B2B
- Help prioritising intelligent cuts: via a business process architecture and a good process measurement system
- Process Optimisation: BPM teams can quickly examine processes and suggest changes to eliminate waste
- Good BPM teams can almost always identify some quick changes that will save 10-30%
- Reorganisations
- Changes in status also require that new processes and business rules be implemented throughout the organisation
- Additional Regulation
- New regulations require new practices and new business rules
- Business is facing
- Global business competition
- Rapid innovation and fast-changing business requirements
- Regulatory compliance challenges
- Increasing cost pressures
- Technology’s typical response
- Slow delivery times
- High maintenance costs
- Brittle solutions
- Stove piped functional applications
- Redundant development efforts and operations
- Redundant and costly investment in multiple technical solutions
- Can technology be realigned to support the needs of business?
- Alan McSweeney
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