• Apply a BPI framework in your organisation
• Identify processes in need of improvement
• Create and implement stakeholder engagement and buy-in
• Measure improvements using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) linked to your business drivers

Building the Business Process Improvement (BPI) Framework

Defining BPI

• Business process improvement vs. re-engineering
• Driving innovation with BPI
• Benchmarking your personal BPI skills

Uncovering BPI challenges

• The evolution of process improvement
• Defining a business process with the Business Process Improvement Framework (BPIF)

Evaluating the Organisation

Analysing the organisational mission and vision

• Pinpointing influences on the business
• MOST
• Five forces
• PESTLE
• SWOT

Developing a communication plan

• Identifying key stakeholders needs
• Defining the phases of communication

Outlining the Current Process

Creating a Process Inventory

• Defining different documentation methods
• Determining Business Rules
• Applying process prioritisation techniques

Enhancing your modelling skills

• Evaluating modelling techniques and key principles
• Modelling a cross-functional activity diagram

Designing appropriate measurements

• Linking business drivers to measurements
• Identifying Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Analysing and Improving the Process

Relating process measures to business drivers

• Analysing process performance
• Recognising the causes of poor process performance
• Time
• Cost
• Quality
• Satisfaction

Leveraging problem analysis criteria

• People
• Technology
• Business rules
• Materials
• Investigating root cause using problem mapping tools
• Relating root cause analysis to a business process

Modelling the “To-Be” Solution

Designing appropriate success criteria

• Optimising vs. enhancing your business process
• Focusing on customer needs
• Determining value and uniqueness
• Dissecting the “To-Be” process

Assessing process performance

• Deriving KPIs from business drivers
• Developing a KPI dashboard
• Creating an assessment plan for your own process

Managing and Implementing Change

Maximising stakeholder buy-in

• Targeting key stakeholders
• Identifying stakeholder communication styles
• Differentiating approach based on project phase

Driving change in organisations

• Determining barriers to change
• Identifying positive and negative forces for change
• Developing and applying a force field analysis approach

Facilitating acceptance in your organisation

• Determining organisational necessities
• Communicating the innovation effectively
• Preparing the implementation plan

Integrating BPI into Your Organisation

Implementing continuous improvement

• Recognising the history of continuous improvement
• Shadow pyramid
• Six Sigma
• TQM
• Deploying SCARF to empower stakeholders

Creating a Business Process Improvement Center (BPIC)

• Leveraging the BPIC to support stakeholders, business strategy and knowledge capture
• Applying the BPI framework using the BPIC
• Promoting a structured approach to BPI

Focusing on feedback and measurement

• Appraising BPI processes in organisations
• Prioritising changes using the Ease/Impact matrix
• Detailing the BPI implementation plan

Experience at the level of:

• Introduction to Business Intelligence: Designing a Successful BI Programme (BIDSP), or
• BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis