Description

What Will Students Learn?

  • Define business process management and related concepts
  • Recognize the vital role processes play in a business
  • Appreciate the role of technology in process management
  • Develop a vision to guide process improvement
  • Understand how to design or enhance an existing process using the business process life cycle
  • Construct a process map
  • Perform a what-if analysis to improve your processes
  • Implement and monitor process changes
  • Identify how Lean and Six Sigma methods can assist in managing and improving processes
  • Use a variety of tools and techniques to eliminate waste and redundancies

What Topics are Covered?

  • The fundamentals of business process management
  • Defining business process management
  • Reflecting on processes
  • The business process life cycle
  • The vision phase
  • The design phase (including process mapping)
  • The modeling phase
  • The execution phase
  • The monitoring phase (including an introduction to the balanced scorecard and business activity monitoring)
  • The optimizing phase(including an introduction to Lean and Six Sigma methods)