Business Process Modeling e-Framework Workshop Balbir Barn 12th February 2007 Agenda • • • • • Why we construct Business Process Models A historical context Approaches to business process modelling Business Process Modelling Notation Tools and standards summary 2 What is a Business Process? • Davenport & Short (1990) define business process as – "a set of logically related tasks performed to achieve a defined business outcome." A process is "a structured, measured set of activities
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Freshman Admissions Process Business Process Management Spring 2012 Scope Definition Process Name: Freshman Application Process Process Owner: University Admissions Description: To manage the tracking, qualification, engagement, and closing of the University applicants in the freshman admission process. Technical Definitions: • Tracking – reference to when, how, and what interactions and/or actions have been initiated by Stetson University
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assist the user in performing a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) on an information system. The template is meant only as a basic guide and may not apply equally to all systems. The user may modify this template or the general BIA approach as required to best accommodate the specific system. In this template, words in italics are for guidance only and should be deleted from the final version. Regular (non-italic) text is intended to remain. 1. Overview This Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is developed
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RO T E U L D GE · r & Fr a nci s G ro SAP implementation at Metalica: an organizational drama in two acts M ICH EL AVIT AL and BETTY VANDENBOSCH Department of Information Systems, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106-7235 USA This play attempts to reconstruct the social reality of key players at Metalica during the ® rst couple of years of SAP implementation. Rather than adopting one perspective about the SAP project, we provide the
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(Enterprise Resource planning) system: the company has picked Oracle E-business Suite after meeting planning what would really fit their needs. The modules chosen to help automate the business processes were: Oracle financials, inventory management, manufacturing sales and marketing, order management and procurement. CEO and it consultant involvement in the project steering committee and adequate training and change management . Question 2: What are the risks facing El-Alamein in implementing the
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The Future of Corporate Performance Management Abstract Adaptive Planning is a Corporate Performance Management system that has foreseen the future of IT. They have adapted a full service CPM system which can accommodate customers from beginning to end. The “cloud” has become a vital asset to the selling point which will forever change IT as we know it. This new system has allowed companies to “Dramatically reduce budgeting and forecasting cycle times by up to 90%” (Product Overview). “Allowing
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Product Data Management System ( PDM ) consisting of engineering data management and engineering document management system is vital for the performance of an EPCI ( Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation ) contractor in Oil & Gas upstream projects segment. PDM is used by all functions in managing the projects execution as well as during life cycle of the asset for operation and maintenance. Currently engineering data and documents are produced and managed though many different
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Description: Project Management – Senior Business Analyst Description Project Management team is a strategic initiatives and projects delivery function within Marsh. The function assists the business in moving quickly from vision through strategy to change implementation and the realization of business benefits. The function emphasis is simplification, standardization, and de-risking the organization for purposes of delivering business benefits. Key Responsibilities Project Management - Senior Business
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information and provides a higher level of meaning about that data and information. Data are the collection of facts, measurements and statistics. Information is organized or processed data that are timely and accurate. Enterprise-wide knowledge management systems are general-purpose firm-wide efforts to collect, store, distribute and apply digital content and knowledge. Such systems provide databases and tools for organizing and storing structured and unstructured documents and other knowledge objects
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consultants are unreliable, they has employed a local IT contractor to maintain its internal system which includes backup files on a weekly bases. The backup protocol is old and once per week is inefficient. IT is not RDM’s core business, they are a small firm management consulting firm and there is the matter of the cost for a new system that they may not be able to afford. Employing an experience and reputable company that offers Cloud computing should be an option that RDM explores. 1.5 /3 Yes
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