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Chapter 10
Business Process Management and
Enterprise Systems
Irwin/McGraw-Hill
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. 2002. All rights reserved .
Business Process Management
• Business process management is when the
organization attempts to improve efficiency and
effectiveness of their operation by focusing on
their business processes.
– Companies normally hire when the economy is
booming.
– Companies look for ways to cut costs during down
economic times.
• Downsizing is one option where companies reduce the number
of jobs while attempting to increase productivity.
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Business Process Management
• Business Process Automation (BPA) involves
automating some aspect of the business process
through the application of information technology.
• Business Process Improvement (BPI) involves
employees looking for ways to improve the
process incrementally.
• Business Process Transformation (BPT)
examines how the business operates and then
looks for ways to fundamentally and radically
change those operations.
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Business Processes
• A process perspective encourages managers to:
– See every aspect of the business as customer
driven.
– Make employees responsible for the whole
process, rather than for just one task in it.
– Focus on how work is done, rather than just on
what is done.
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Organizational Strategies
• Organizations generally seek to maximize
shareholder wealth.
– Strategies to maximize shareholder wealth
include
• Low cost provider
• Customer centric: Approach identifies the processes
that deliver an output to the customer and then
implement those processes in the most efficient
manner possible.
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Business Process Automation
• Business process automation is where a
process is replaced by one that is supported
by an information system.
– Most efforts to automate business processes
also result in process improvements.
– Order entry system replaced a manual inventory
count.
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BPI and BPT
• Business Process Transformation (BPT) is
used today to define reengineering.
– “Re-engineering is the fundamental rethinking
and redesign of business processes to achieve
dramatic improvements in critical measures of
performance.” (Hammer and Champy 1990)
– Strategic change projects.
– Breakthrough innovation focused on the
customer.
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BPI and BPT
• Other Philosophies for change:
– Continuous Improvement
– Total Quality Management (TQM)
– These are incorporated into the general term Business
Process Improvement (BPI)
– BPI takes longer to implement than these other
philosophies.
– BPI tends to be driven by the bottom up approach, and
BPT the top down approach.
– See Figure 10.2
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Principles of Business Process Improvement
1. Quality is what the customer says it is.
2. Think of yourself as the customer.
3. Customer satisfaction is impossible without
employee satisfaction.
4. Improve continuously.
5. Leadership and accountability make quality happen.
6. Focusing on quality increases efficiency; focusing
on efficiency often decreases quality.
7. If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.
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Principles of Business Process Improvement
• Quality is what the customer says it is.
– Quality is meeting or exceeding customer
expectations at a price that represents value to
them. Quality encompasses technical
parameters as well as service.
– Quality is both tangible and perceptual
– Customer satisfaction needs to measured
regularly, systematically, and consistently.
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Principles of Business Process Improvement
• Think of yourself as the customer
– Managers should go through the process as
their customer.
– University President should go through the
admission process at their university.
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Principles of Business Process Improvement
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Customer satisfaction is impossible
without employee satisfaction
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Critical for businesses with excessive
interaction between customer and employees.
First step toward improving quality is
understanding how to keep you employees
satisfied.
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Principles of Business Process Improvement
• Improve continuously
– TQM implies a constant commitment to
improving all aspects of the firm.
– “Mistakes are treasures”
– Consistent level of performance needed for
continuous improvement.
– Document and eradicate mistakes and eliminate
inconsistencies.
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Principles of Business Process Improvement
• Leadership and accountability make quality
happen.
– The word “Quality” should be in the mission
statement.
– Quality must be built into the incentive
programs and evaluation of performance
formulas.
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Principles of Business Process Improvement
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Focusing on quality increases efficiency;
focusing on efficiency often decreases
quality.
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Process simplification and control.
Consistency in performance.
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Principles of Business Process Improvement
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If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.
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Quality management is a data intensive
process.
Improvement implies having targets and
reporting progress in achieving those targets.
BPI requires the development of an information
system infrastructure that allows tracking of
internal performance measures.
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Principals of BPT
1. Organize around outcome, not tasks.
2. Have those that use the output of the process
perform the process.
3. Subsume information processing work into the
real work that produces the information.
4. Treat geographically dispersed resources as if
they were centralized.
5. Put the decision point where the work is
performed, and build control into the process.
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IS and Process Management
Step 1 Project Planning (define goals & objectives)
Step 2 Analysis (define information requirements)
Step 3 Generate and evaluate alternatives
Step 4 Design the chosen alternative
Step 5 Implement (conversion)
Step 6 Operate and maintain
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Enterprise Information Systems
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
– Systems were designed to replace legacy systems.
• Supply Chain Management (SCM)
– Systems allow companies to coordinate entire logistics,
production, and distribution.
• Sales Force Automation (SFA)
– Systems manage processes such as contact management,
sales forecasting, and order management.
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
– Systems focus on connecting various experiences the
customer has with the company.
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ERP and Enterprise Systems
• ERP
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Developed by SAP in the 1970s
First Product was mainframe based, SAP R/2
System integrated financial and operational data.
Originally focused on back-office operations.
Enforce use of “best practices”
Centralized database is the heart of an ERP system.
Other vendors include Baan, Oracle, J.D. Edwards, &
Peoplesoft.
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Implementing Enterprise Systems
Customization
The degree of modification to the software
package to match it to the company’s needs.
Integration
The amount of effort needed to tie the
software package into the existing
information systems.
Upgrades
If a software package has been customized
and special middleware written to integrate
it with other systems, it becomes more
difficult to implement new versions
(upgrades) of the package.
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