W7 - BPR Methodologies

In the lecture, I have learned about the 5 phases of BPR methodologies. It includes:

Triggering and Executive Visioning, define business vision and objectives, addresses the limitations of current processes, visioning about how the particular aspect of the business should work.

BPR Project Mobilization, it includes selecting what process should be redesigned, setting up a BPR team and choosing a project leader.

Process Redesign, redesign the business process, analyze and compare the performance of the processes.

Implementation and Organizational Transformation, adjust the IT infrastructure, organization and workers’ skills to fit the redesigned process.

Monitoring and Maintaining, continue to monitor the new process, make improvements when it is needed.

The article here gathered several BPR methodologies from contemporary literatures.

 

It collected the information from different methodologies and made a consolidated methodology.

 

The above methodology is so close to the lecture’s. What I want to emphasize is the Map and Analyze As-Is Process. Many people underestimate the value of As-Is analysis and rather prefer spending more time and money on designing the To-Be model directly. One of the important thing of BPR is the improvement should provide dramatic results, by achieving this objective, we should first understand clearly how the current process is running, analyze it and then improve it. In the article, it gave an example that a large manufacture had spent a lot of money in developing a new system. However the project failed just because they overlooked a small piece of information.
Therefore apart from putting focus on developing new process, we should also focus on analyzing the current process.