Re-Engineering Opportunities for IS

2 Day Intensive Seminar Workshop


    Is Re-Engineering just the next corporate fad, or an excuse for cutbacks or buying oversold technology? It can be, unless the organization learns to tap Re-Engineering's potential for achieving breakthrough performance improvements. Maximum advantage comes from replacing existing business processes with radically more efficient ways to delight customers. While not specifically an IS responsibility, IS can play a central role in facilitating, enabling, and applying Re-Engineering. This workshop explains ways IS can contribute to and take advantage of Re-Engineering. Exercises reinforce learning.


Participants will learn:

  * Identifying processes that impact Business Performance and competitiveness.
  * How Business Process Re-Engineering (BPR) produces breakthrough performance improvements.
  * Lessons from Total Quality Management (TQM) to increase BPR success.
  * Ways to diagnose business processes that would yield significant re-engineering benefits.
  * Structured methods for mapping, analyzing, and re-engineering business processes.
  * Appropriate relationship of re-engineering and the system development process.


WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This course has been designed for systems and business managers, project leaders, systems analysts, business analysts, quality specialists, auditors, and others responsible for business and systems Re-Engineering.


 

SYSTEMS RE-ENGINEERING

  • Economics of IS Re-Engineering
  • Facilitating/delaying maintenance
  • Taking advantage of technology gains
  • Restructuring system development
  • Solutions without understanding problems
  • Really improving system development
 

LESSONS FROM TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT (TQM)

  • Similarities with re-engineering
  • Top-down and bottom-up structures
  • Recognizing customer view
  • Continuous and breakthrough improvement
  • Empowerment and team problem solving
  • Critical success factors
  • Overcoming obstacles to success
 

DESIGNING SOLUTIONS

  • Identifying stakeholders and strategy
  • Prioritizing goals for improvements
  • Pursuing increments vs. breakthroughs
  • Visioning the "Should" process map
  • Challenging the strawman
  • Function/relationship mapping
  • Three levels design optimization
  • Job/performer level alignment
  • Strategic job descriptions
  • Role/responsibility matrix
  • Leadership action for results
 

HIDDEN GOLD IN BUSINESS PROCESSES

  • Types of processes that affect performance
  • Improvement approaches
  • Competitive differentiation
  • Where and why huge opportunities exist
  • Stovepipe model
  • Distinguishing processes from functions
  • Case: Impacts of unrecognized processes
  • Mapping flows within a process
  • Identifying inefficiencies and delays
  • Re-engineering workflow to cut cycle time
 

ASSESSING BUSINESS PROCESSES

  • Case: Order fulfillment process loses sales
  • High-level cross-functional mapping
  • Paving the cowpaths solution failures
  • Two keys to analyzing processes
  • Measures to reveal problem causes
  • 14 steps to diagnose opportunities
  • Value stream modeling
  • Detailed "Is" process mapping
 

IMPROVING THE SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

  • Common presumed development processes
  • Factors determining the actual process
  • Applying methods to define the process
  • Analyzing how development really occurs
  • Software Process Capability Maturity Model
  • Comparing process improvement and SEI
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