Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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Overview
Operations management
Consultancy stages
Some Tools
Principles of BPR
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Operations consulting
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Plant,Adding
location and facilities management
& locating new plant
Expanding, contracting, or refocusing facilities
Parts/Supplier Network
Make or buy decisions
Vendor selection decisions
Processes
Technology evaluation & implementation
Process improvement & reengineering
People
Quality improvement
Setting/revising work standards
Planning and Control Systems
Supply chain management
Outsourcing
ERP Source: Chase and Aquilano
Work flow control and scheduling
Logistics, warehousing and distribution
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Managers
(Minders)
Consultants
(Grinders)
Decision point
Feasibility
Analysis and Unfreezing Decision point
Actual vs symptoms
Problem definition
Objectives/resources
Generate and
Compare solutions
Options/criteria/costs
Implementation
planning
Info systems/visibility
Review systems
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Methods
Methods
Plant observation/audits •Issue
Issue trees
trees
Work sampling & analysis Information
•55 forces
forces competitive
advantage
competitive
advantage
Flow charting systems •Supply
Supply chain
chain
analysis •Value-added
Value-added
Organisation charts
•QualServ
QualServ
Method study •Systems
Systems analysis
analysis
•Customer
Customer &
employee
&
employee surveys
surveys
•Gap
Gap analysis
analysis
•Prototyping
Prototyping
•Technical
Technical vsvs human
human
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BPR Introduction
1. Faulty measurements
2. Information Technology
3. Organizational process, structure and design
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Making processes
• effective - producing the desired resulted
Focus
outcomes
on & organise around
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BPR Focus
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What is a Process?
Definition:
A specific ordering of work activities across time and place, with a
beginning, an end, and clearly identified inputs and outputs: a
structure for action (Davenport, 1993)
A collection of activities that takes one or more kinds of input and
creates an output that is of value to a customer (Hammer&
Champy, 1993)
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Kinds of process:
Operational
objectives
(production) – directly achieves operational
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System Thinking
Systemic:
“of a bodily system as a whole” (medically oriented definition)
“ of or concerning a system as a whole”
A framework of thinking, analysis and synthesis
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Environment Entropy
Inputs Outputs/outcomes
Transformation
Process
Adaptation
Information
Feedback
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A conceptual framework
IT Use for evaluating & balancing
IT-enabled change
Business Organisational
Processes Form
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Evolution of BPR
Degree of enabling IT
Knowledge
Management
Web-enabled
e-business
Time-based
competition
TQM
Richness of business
transformation
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BPR requirements
Need
process owners - accountable for how well the process
performs
well-defined boundaries (process scope), internal & external
interfaces & responsibilities
well-documented procedures, work tasks & training
measurement & feedback controls close to point of
performance
customer-related measurements & targets
known cycle times
formalised change procedures
performers to know how good they can be.
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BPR serves
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BPR as Neo-Taylorisim?
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BPR Phases
Organising
Undestanding Streamlining Measurements Continuous
for
the Process and Costs improvement
improvement
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BPR Project
Business Strategy
Business Process
Information System
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Process Owners
Process
Participants
BPR Project
Sponsors
Core BPR Project
Team
BPR facilitators
& consultants
IT & e-commerce
specialists
Human resources
specialist
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raw materials
product (output) design
job (sequence, simplification, discretion etc)
processing steps used
management control information
equipment or tools
people – actors (direct/indirect staff, customers,
supply relationships (internal & external)
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Activities
establish Executive Improvement Team (EIT)
Appoint BPR champion
provide executive training
develop an improvement model
communicate goals to employees
review business strategy and customer requirements
select the critical processes
appoint process owners
select BPR Team members
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Activities
define process mission, scope and boundaries
provide team training
develop a process overview
define customer/business measurements & expectations for the
process
identify improvement opportunities
errors and re-work high cost
poor quality long time delays/backlog
Record/chart the process
collect cost, time & value data
perform walkthroughs on new process
resolve the differences (existing/new, ideal/realistic)
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PHASE 3: Implementation
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Objective:
develop a process control system for on-going improvement
Activities
develop in-house measurements and targets
establish a feedback system
audit the process periodically
establish a poor-quality cost system
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Objective:
to implement a continuous improvement process
Activities
Qualify/certificate the process
perform periodic qualification reviews
define and eliminate process problems
evaluate the change impact on the business and on
customers
benchmark the process
provide advanced team training
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process objectives
innovative practices
tried and tested methods
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BPR Problems
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BPRHteam a io n
action researchers
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If it works, don't
Costs of the
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changes change it!
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Vaccination against change + another quick fix
Finding the time and energy
We need to keep the old, existing core systems running
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1.Customer-facing
2.provide value to process recipient
3.outputs used by external or internal customers
4.Cross-functional, cross-department, cross-enterprise
5.completed task handed to another do next task in sequence
6.Altering dynamics of information flows
7.Knowledge that participants need created around the process
(data, reports, trends, exceptions, FAQ & ideas)
8.Multiple versions of business processes rather than one-size-fits
all
9.Degree of structure of a process –highly structured or fluid & not
tightly determined
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