- When someone asks what is "the
process"? or What is "in process"?
- What is Business Process Management?
Business Process Management Definition?
- What benefits or advantages of
managing as a Processes?
- How does Process Management
differ from ABM?
- How does Process Management
differ from Quality/Six Sigma?
- How does Process Management differ
from Reengineering?
- Does Process Management support
Supply Chain Management?
1. When someone asks: What is "the
Process?" or What is "in process"?
When someone asks: What is in "the process" or What is "in process"?, they are
referring to the boundaries of the process? For example, in the "hiring process,
the boundaries could start when the HR department gets the request from the
various departments or "the process" could start when the department fills out a
request for a new hire, gets budget approval, and then sends the new hire
request to the HR department.
If the process is labeled "Procure Trained Employees, then hiring,
training, getting a computer, etc. may all be "in the process"
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2. What is Process Management? Business
Process Management Definition
According to Wikipedia, Process management is the ensemble of
activities of planning and monitoring the performance of a process.
Especially in the sense of
business processes, often confused with
business process reengineering. [1]
Business process management and business process reengineering are
interrelated, but not identical. Process management is the
application of
knowledge,
skills,
tools,
techniques and
systems to define, visualize, measure, control, report and
improve processes with the goal to meet
customer requirements profitably. It can be differentiated from
program management in that program management is concerned with
managing a group of inter-dependent projects. But from another view
point, process management includes program management. In
project management, process management is the use of a
repeatable process to improve the outcome of the project.[2]
ISO 9001 promotes the process approach to managing an
organization.
...promotes the adoption of a process approach when
developing, implementing and improving the effectiveness of a
quality management system, to enhance customer satisfaction by
meeting customer requirements. Source: clause 0.2 of ISO
9001:2000
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3. What are benefits or
advantage of management as a Processes
Managing by processes enables an organization to:
- better understand entire process rather than just looking at one
department or cost center.
- puts someone in charge of entire process rather than have everyone
trying to optimize their cost center
- views organization from eyes of consumer
- create performance measures for cost, time, quality of
cross-functional processes.
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4. How does Process Management differ
from ABM?
Activity Based Management and Process Management can overlap to a great
extent or they can be quite different depending on how they are used.
Depending on how you define each of these, one could argue that either could
be subset of the other. What is important is to look at the components
rather than to argue which is subset of the other.
Does the organization:
- have all its major processes defined
- have a senior manager responsible for and compensated for entire
cross-functional process
- have all its processes documented
- have all process suppliers and customers identified
- have employees aware of how they affect process and have them
compensated for performance of entire process and not just their
department or cost center
- have performance measures for cost, time, and quality for entire
process as well as individual activities within process
- have process improvement targets
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5. How does Process Management differ
from Quality/Six Sigma?
Quality/Six Sigma/Malcolm Baldrige/ISO 9000 and Process Management can
overlap to a great extent or they can be quite different depending on how
they are used. What is important is to look at the components rather
than to argue which is subset of the other.
See above on Process Management and ABM
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6. How does Process Management differ
from Reengineering?
In general, Reengineering tends to be a periodic event that results in
radical redesign of a process. Process Management is a continuous
event that for most part concentrates on incremental improvement.
However, process management can also result in radical redesign.
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7. Does Process Management support
Supply Chain Management?
Process Management supports Supply Chain Management. A Supply Chain
can be as broad as from the original supplier to the ultimate customer.
It can be as narrow at one supplier supplying one customer. Both
Process Management and Supply Chain Management concentrate on improving the
processes over the supply chain.
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