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Summary
What is Business Modeling?
Identifying the right area to change and improve is paramount to the overall
success of an organization. The dangers of implementing business process improvement
changes without a clear understanding of how the changes will impact the entire
process can be substantial. Therefore tools are needed to help managers truly
understand their business processes and how modifications to those processes
will impact the overall company.
The Business Modeling method is a technique to model business processes.
Business models provide ways of expressing business processes or strategies
in terms of business activities and collaborative behavior so we can better
understand the business process and the participants in the process. Models
are helpful for documenting, for comprehending complexity and for communicating
complexity. By documenting business processes from various perspectives, business
models can help managers to understand their environment.
Simulation Software
With the aide of simulation software, managers can understand their
business processes like never before. This type of software can show the flow
of work through a system using graphs. This allows managers to clearly see
where a problems may lie, and give indications of how to improve them. Once
the problem areas are identified, the software can be used to change any parameter
the user wishes. Run the simulation once again and immediately see the impact
of the change. In this way, companies can change their business processes
in a computer environment, without risking costly setbacks of real world trial
and errors.
Business Modeling and Operations Research
Business Simulation has grown from operations research in the 1950s. With
the arrival of increasingly cheap and powerful computers, and increasingly
user-friendly software, business modeling techniques now allow also non-technical
managers to try out various options or scenario's to assist in the decision-making
process.
Another factor that has contributed to the increasing usage of the business
modeling method, is the increasing pace of change in business. There is not
enough time to try out new products in reality, and correcting mistakes, once
they have occurred, is often extremely costly.
Improve efficiency. By looking at the business process, organizations can improve their efficiency by eliminating redundancies. Also, each block can be looked at and improved by automating a set of activities. Any bottlenecks can be identified and removed.
Financial Planning, quantifying the impact of business decisions
on balance sheet and P&L.
Risk Management, determining, measuring and managing the balance
between profitability and certain types of risks.
Forecasting, analyzing historical data and using that to predict
future scenario's and trends.
Business Process Modeling, mapping processes, tasks and process
steps in a visual representation to the resources required.
Book: Manuel Laguna,
Johan Marklund - Business Process Modeling, Simulation, and Design
Book: Bernard P.
Zeigler - Theory of Modeling and Simulation
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Policies and Procedures Progress Tracking
Any recommendations on how to track the progress of policies and procedure that are being updated or written... Without using the big dollar programs? We have over 200 policies and procedures that we ...
Business Modeling not the Same as Business PROCESS Modeling
While you can say that business process modeling is part of (or complements) business modeling, the two are not the same. To avoid confusion, it might be better to keep the process word in the usage o...
Standard Operating Procedures
I am looking for information on identifying and mapping activities, process, procedures, and governing policies in Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
The intention is to identify and map these thin...
Warehousing Simulation Software
Is there anyone who can help me where I can find a simulation software to be use in warehousing and logistic industry? Thanks...
Uniform Processes are also a Risk
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Combine Process Modeling with Systems Theory
Process modeling must be used together with general and complex systems theory to get very interesting results. Vision formulated from a system's point of view is more objective and closer to the real...
Learning from Preparing a Simulation
When developing custom simulations, I always notice that the greatest learning moment for the organization is often in the preliminary phase. Small businesses in particular have difficulty describing ...
How to Start the First Business Process
Dear All, I decided to establish my new company - a private business. I have prepared the company structure: it consists of 5 departments and each department has its own manager and all of them report...
Complex Organizations Have Complex Processes
The problem is the complexity of the organizations in which these processes are carried out. We must remember: a) the Theory on Bounded Rationality in organizations (Simon 1955); b) the Contingency Th...
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Types of Business Processes - Classifications
Henk Kleijn and Fred Rorink in their book 'Change Management' distinguish between 5 different kinds of business processes in any company (organization):
1. Primary processes: these are the main proce...
Mission Statement, Modeling and Simulation: a Synergy
STRATEGY literally relates to the mode by which an organization intends to reach its goal or objective. In a way, there is either a correlative or curvilinear relationship between modeling and strateg...
People Should Be in the Center of Business Processes
Business processes are important in the development of an enterprise. But people should be the center of it.
For processes to have validity, it is important that actions are comfortable and productiv...
Introduction to Business Process Analysis
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What is the Value of Categorizing Business Processes?
Just wondering: what value does categorizing business processes brings to the BPI/BPM effort? How does the enterprise benefit? How do stakeholders benefit?...
BPM Categories, BPM Types, BPM Classification The main goals of Business Process Modeling can be classified into three different categories:
1. Descriptive:
- Trace...
BPM Categories, BPM Types, BPM Classification Depending on their focus, we can distinguish 4 types of business processes:
- Integration intensive: Strong focus on au...
BPM Categories, BPM Types, BPM Classification Considering the way that processes may develop, we can differentiate them into the following 2 types of processes:
A. D...
Process Approaches, Organizational Development, Organizational Change A business process is a set of interrelated activities targeted at a defined and measurable result that adds value to th...
Business Process Representation Models representing business processes allow the management to dig in a process and recognize its critical aspects, such...
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Process Management, process Improvement, Business Process Reengineering, BPR, Six Sigma Presentation about process management, particularly process modeling simulation and design. The presentation focuses on ...
Introduction. The Case / Main Reasons for BPR The Business Process Reengineering method (BPR) is described by Hammer and Champy as the fundamental reconsideration and...
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