A Business Process Explorer : Recovering And Visualizing E Commerce Business Processes

Business Process Management (BPM) software is a crucial aspect in security policy and infrastructure and another major concern for this firm. Considering the layout of the network, in which employees from various locations and customers ranging around the globe can access, Aircraft Solutions should be sure their BPM is strong. “One of the primary goals of instituting a business process management system is to provide greater accountability for departmental functions, from tracking and monitoring expenditures to ensuring deliverables are met.”

2. Amir Bonakdar, T. W. (2013). Transformative Influence of Business Processes on the Business Model: Classifying the State of the Practice in the Software Industry. Hawaii: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

This way the IT department can understand what the higher level and lower level employees need for system stability and a better graphical interface. Another plan of action would include the method of Systems Development Life Cycle or SDLC. The phases of this method are planning, analysis, system design, implementation and operation. First we must plan on what exactly we are trying to accomplish. We know we need to upgrade the Riordan Manufacturing system. Next we must analyze the system and look for problematic errors. A project proposal can be essential to launching a system analysis (Farah, 2013). These are things to keep in mind: understand the business situation or problem, understand the significance to the problem in the organization, think of alternate solutions, the use of computer information systems for solutions, find people interested in the solving the problem (Farah, 2013). This plan is used to decrease redundancies, errors, and increase security. Finding all the weak spots in the company will help in the improvement of integrating an updated efficiently functioning system. Feasibility is important to account for when upgrading the system. Integrating a CRM will help to work with customers and understand their needs and wants to benefit the company and the relationship with their customers. Designing the system will involve knowing what kind of software is needed to store and

A business process modeling technique mainly models four aspects of business processes, which are functional, informational, behavioural and organizational. An appropriate modeling technique is chosen, depending upon goal of modeling. Several Business Process Modeling Techniques have emerged since the beginning of the century. A few of these techniques are

A business process combines manual and automated tasks that ultimately add measurable value to a product or service. A model for business model diagram of these manual and automated processes is a picture of the business process works as is or should work in the future to be. To develop an effective application that optimally supports the business process. Business process analysis identifies bottlenecks in efficiencies disconnects and other problem areas. Developers need solution functional and non-functional requirements to develop or modifying application. A good business process implementation will increase the visibility of the company’s activities making it easy to monitor and control the critical business processes of the company. It provides management with an increased ability to identify bottlenecks, make improvements that needed and reassigned resources to meet customer demand. It also provides an increased to identify further areas of optimization that will provide customer satisfaction or lower transaction

Business processes comprise a set of sequential sub-processes or tasks, with alternative paths depending on certain conditions as applicable, performed to achieve a given objective or produce given outputs. Each process has one or more needed inputs. The inputs and outputs may be received from, or sent to other business processes, other organizational units, or internal or external stakeholders. Business processes are designed to be operated by one or more business functional units, and emphasize

Business process reengineering (BPR) is the analysis and redesign of workflow within and between enterprises. The purpose of BPR is to make all business processes the best-in-class. Michael Hammer and James Champy published their best-selling book, reengineering the Corporation, where the authors promoted the idea of radically redesigning the enterprise by wiping the slate clean. New information technology, including the ability for people throughout the supply chain to communicate in real time and the ability for controls and monitoring to be instituted throughout the supply chain, is often a driver of process reengineering within the organization. By reengineering workflows with better quality controls within the production process, companies can more easily uncover issues within the supply chain at their source. Through breaking down the processes of the business and organizing around outcomes, companies can uncover and remove inefficiencies in their processes. In the insurance industry, claims typically took 31 days to

In today’s business environment, companies use integrated information systems to gain competitive advantages. The primary objective of senior management is to generate a 10% profit to reinvest into the enterprise and expand their divisions. Several of Bandon’s competitors have implemented ERP with integrated CRM solutions. In order for Bandon Group, Inc. to compete with businesses such as Xerox, it is necessary to integrate the business applications. According to Monk, Ellen, & Wagner, “increasing information system efficiency often results in the effective management of business processes, which is essential to maximizing profit and sustainable growth” (2009). Bandon Group has common critical problems and issues within the organization today; there are also opportunities and challenges that need to be addressed. The technology department is small and strained. With the range of various technical solutions that have been implemented across the divisions it has become very difficult to provide data migrations, network support, technical support and training (Sumner, 2005). An ERP system can dramatically reduce costs and improve operational efficiency as it removes feudal decision-making and facilitates data integration and transparency between business units

What kind of systems are described in this case? Identify and describe the business processes each supports. Describe the inputs, processes, and outputs of these systems.

As the new CIO of Volkswagen of America (VWoA), Dr. Uwe Matulovic brings an impressive resume that includes ample experience in aligning business process management (BPM), business process re-engineering (BPR) and the insights necessary to create the Business Process Technology Organization (BPTO). As the IT projects within VWoA have lacked governance and are facing a severe budget shortfall of $150M, Dr. Matulovic has a formidable challenge. He must first align all existing IT projects to strategic initiatives, which is the essence of effective IT governance (Huang, Zmud, Price, 2010) and then he must define processes to stabilize these strategies yet ensure integration still occurs at the process and system level (Korac-Kakabadse, Kakabadse, 2001). All of these factors need to be taken into account as VWoA is evaluating up to 22 new models with will have an exponential, nearly chaotic impact on their existing IT systems and their ability to respond. Further, the VWoA business has continued to suffer from a lack of unified focus of IT spending to overall strategic initiatives. This lack of governance has created a process of defining IT priorities more defined by the persuasive ability of managers, their ability to build compelling Return on Investment (ROI) arguments, and

allow business to change its processes. In this case Business rules paradigm can be used

“Fasten your seat belt; it’ll be quite a ride”, is how Dr. Michael Hammer ended his 1999 article in InformationWeek titled, “Reengineering at Net Speed”. The article focuses on the possibilities the internet will have on business processes and how process reengineering is necessary in “net” age. Dr. Hammer argues that reengineering is necessary with the internet because “automating a mess yields an automated mess”. He argues that a poorly designed process in a traditional business environment will be a poor designed process on the internet as well. He further states that processes will be need to implemented and designed to support the internet model of business. The internet model of business has high customer value access. Customers are able to place orders and check on shipments. Hammer also states the internet has no boundaries. Companies are able to business anywhere in the world due to ubiquity of the

Taken together, these process maps represent an enterprise-wide model of the organization and its core

1.1 What is the Business Process Re-engineering IMT..........................................................2 1.2 Objectives of BPR..........................................................................................................8 1.3 Methodology of a BPR project

Technology becomes the backbone of industries in the 21st century. That being said, we believe that in order for an industry to remain competitive in the business world, industries must be adapted to the new era of e-business technology. In this project, we identified several key factors  that we think are critical to MBB’s success. Hence, the ultimate goals are to transform the traditional business into  e-business, cut costs and generate revenues.