6 STEPS INVOLVES IN BUSINESS PROCESS REENGINEERING
Distillation of the main steps of process reengineering and Business Process Reengineering (BPR) into high-level conceptual sound bites acquires extensive importance at the time of converse with a company’s management team regarding BPR. For conversing productively with leadership and senior management, it is immensely imperative. Besides, at that stage, the discussion appropriately inclines to the bond between the company’s business measures and BPR.
Let’s discuss the significant steps of the business process reengineering.
- Define Business Processes
The initial step of BPR necessitates the mapping of the present position of the business. This process indubitably encompasses the company’s current business regulations, supporting technology, work activities, workflows, responsibilities, and reporting relationships.
- Analysis of Business Processes
The following step denotes the identification of gaps and their core causes, strategic extractions, and more. The approach remains focused on enhancing organizational efficiency and operational proficiency for navigating it towards the strategic goals.
- Identification and Scrutiny of Development Openings
This step envelopes the identification, scrutiny, and validation of gaps and root causes recognized during analysis. Moreover, this step also put clutch over the process of identification and validation of forward-facing opportunities of improvements – habitually opportunities of transformational level, which are not attached to the present state process.
- Development of State Process for the Future
Selection of only those improvement opportunities that enhances the organization’s operational proficiency, effectiveness is crucially important. Besides, these strategies should also assist in achieving the strategic objectives of the organization. Preferring opportunities, according to the organization’s resources, talent, and time is also a necessity for implementation in the apt project timeframe. Creating a future centric map that realizes the chosen opportunities is necessary.
- Building Up Future State Changes
Repeatedly unnoticed (along with one key root cause in unsuccessful BPR programs), this is the plane, where the above openings become operationalized before implementation. Fresh workflow and processes require developing and communicating, improved or fresh functionality needs to be made and put in trials, and more. Until and unless the opportunities and changes are not operationalized, it cannot be implemented.
- Employment of Future State Changes
Change management, project management, performance monitoring, dependencies among opportunities or changes will be decisive for classic implementation.
The business process reengineering benefits the organization not only in increasing the revenue, reduce cost, and faster processing time but also address the changing customer demands and latest trends. At Data Direct, we help businesses to redefine their processes and keep the pace through the latest technology and tools.
