Week 8 - Process Redesign(1)

Source / Reference:
1) Scoping the Planning Process
2) Scoping in environmental impact assessment: Balancing precaution and efficiency?

 Subject:
Scoping an Enterprise Process

 Response:

There are five phases of BPR Methodologies, phase 1 is Triggering and executive visioning, phase 2 is BPR project mobilization, phase 3 is process design, phase 4 is implementation and organizational transformation and the last phase is monitoring and maintaining. In this article, we will only focus on the process design.



BPR Methodologies



Process design contains five steps which are scoping, modeling, analysis, redesign and integration. We will mainly discuss the topic of scoping. Scoping is used to determine what is important to investigate during the planning process. It involves identifying which concerns, actions, and impacts will be addressed in the Resource Plan. Scoping allows stakeholders and technical experts to put their limited financial and technical resources towards investigating the most critical issues in the planning area. 

Activities take place in scoping process

Within the scoping stage, there are three categories which are activities, deliverables and participants. Activities are those written above, deliverables are the output of the result and it is a process scoping report and participants are those who involved in the scoping analysis, they are mainly the process owners and partners, customers of the process and BPR team.

Personally, I think scoping is an essential step during the process design since coping process identifies the issues that are likely to be of most importance during the redesign process and eliminates those that are of little concern. This can ensure the teams are focused on the significant effects and time and money are not wasted on unnecessary investigations.