Process Mining Use Cases: Who Uses Process Mining?
One of the questions when starting out with process mining is “What is the added value for me and my organization?”. To answer this question, you first have to understand your use case. One ingredient of understanding your use case is to understand who will be using process mining and why.
In the above picture you see some of the most typical places in an organization, where process mining is used. Depending on the role the concrete value will be different. Given your role, you have to think about “How is my job getting easier or better with process mining — compared to not using process mining?”.
Let’s take a quick look at the six use cases above1.
1. Process Improvement Teams
There are many different terms used for process improvement teams in organizations: Process Excellence, Operational Excellence, Process Performance Management, etc. These teams often use Lean Six Sigma methods in their improvement initiatives and, as a central team, help different business units in the organization. Process mining fits very well into their toolbox and allows them to analyze the true processes based on data, rather than through manual inspections and interviews.
Process mining itself is agnostic to the improvement method that you use. This means that it does not matter whether your organization uses BPM, Theory of Constraints, Lean, Six Sigma, or Lean Six Sigma. Process mining does not replace these methods. Instead, the business analysts will use their improvement framework to interpret the process…
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