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  Typical uses

 

Consultants can

  • Map client business processes: organization-wide or job-specific
  • Present the results to clients in an easy to understand format
  • Publish the results to the web for client understanding and use
  • Map the corporate supply chain, system interfaces, e-commerce processes etc.
  • Identify the key interfaces job-to-job, department-to-department, with outsourced processes or with key suppliers and customers
  • Develop information strategies around these key interfaces
  • Re-engineer processes to optimize process flow 
  • Drill-down many levels from top to bottom to see the details of sub-processes
  • Use scenario analysis to see how re-engineering will affect resources such as costs and headcounts
  • See how changing volumes will affect resources so that scenarios can be analyzed during business planning
  • See the cost of scrap, rejects, downtime, and wastage
  • Create powerful client presentations
  • Identify processes for workflow enablement
  • Save mapping time by using the autolayout feature
  • Prepare a toolkit of certified parts for re-use called "Sections"
  • Capture all documentation (Inputs, Outputs and Reference) and produce a cross-reference report

 

Cost managers and accountants can

  • Get complete visibility of processes
  • See the true cost of a process or part of a process
  • See the cost of process changes, volume changes, headcount, wastage, scrap, rejects, non-conformance, downtime
  • See costs by job and by department
  • See the cost by category
  • See value-adding and non-value adding costs
  • See and compare the costs of outsourcing
  • Map business processes, organization-wide or job-specific
  • Use scenario analysis to see how re-engineering will affect resources such as costs and headcounts

 

People Managers can

  • Let staff develop their own skills with this easy to understand approach 
  • Let staff engage in employee-centred process improvement
  • Map business processes: organization-wide or job-specific
  • Identify the key interfaces job to job, department to department, with outsourced processes or with key suppliers and customers
  • See how re-engineering will affect resources such as costs and headcounts
  • Identify the key constraints on any process
  • See how changing volumes will affect resource consumption
  • Interface the model with a variety of audio-visual tools to create powerful presentations
  • Develop the organizational structure to optimize business processes
  • Improve processes continuously
  • Get complete visibility of processes for training and education purposes
  • Develop easy-to-access electronic training manuals

 

Quality managers and Auditors can

  • Get complete visibility of processes
  • See the cost of scrap, rejects, downtime, and wastage
  • Create powerful presentations to drive process improvement
  • Drill-down many levels from top-level processes to identify the details of sub-processes
  • Complete visibility of processes for training and education purposes
  • ISO 9000 documentation
  • Easy-to-access procedure manual
  • Easy-to-access standard operating procedures
  • See SOX controls and the Risk Controls Matrix for all processes

 

Business planners can

  • Get complete visibility of processes
  • Map business processes: organization-wide or job-specific
  • Identify value-adding processes
  • Drill-down many levels from top-level processes to identify the details of sub-processes
  • Use scenario analysis to see how re-engineering will affect resources such as costs and headcounts
  • Identify the key constraints on any process
  • See how changing volumes will affect resources so that scenarios can be analyzed during business planning
  • See how a change in turnover or average project size will affect key resources
  • See the cost of scrap, rejects, downtime, and wastage

 

Staff can 

  • Fully participate in process improvement
  • See the process models online as a means of training or an online user manual

 

IT managers can 

  • Map business processes, organization-wide or job-specific
  • Map SOX controls
  • Link all organization-wide processes to value-adding processes
  • Develop information strategies around the key interfaces (job-to-job, department-to-department, with outsourced processes or with key suppliers and customers)
  • Identify the critical information the business needs
  • Drill-down many levels from top-level processes to identify the details of sub-processes
  • Create powerful presentation to highlight direction proposals based on Processes

 

Operations controllers can  

  • Automate business processes
  • Make processes totally standard and repeatable
  • Remove Volume Sensitivity
  • Control and track business processes
  • Make business more efficient and responsive

 

Workflow designers can   

  • Create powerful Microsoft-centric workflows
  • Automate business processes

 

Workflow end users can 

  • Enjoy using automated workflows without paper
  • Track documents easily
  • Use a standardized and dependable work regime

 

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