AIS 006 - Module 3 Business Process Re-Engineering

An approach aiming at improvements by means of elevating efficiency and effectiveness of the business process that exist within and across organizations.

• Process Models

• Methodology

• Strategies

• Business process re-engineering (BPR)

A (a)   is a collection of activities designed to produce a specific output for aparticular customer or market.

A (a)   is thus a specific ordering ofwork activities across time and place, with a beginning, an end, and clearly defined inputs andoutputs

A ______ ____ indicates that the information or object linkedto the process is not used up in the processing phase.

(a)  

A (a)   is the business justification for performing the activity.

_____ ____ ____from event indicates some object is passed into a business process. It captures the passing of control to another entity or process, with the implied passing of state or information from activity to activity.

(a)  

Business processes use (a)   to tailor or complete their activities.

An ____ may be a physical object (such as a report or invoice), a transformation of raw resources into a new arrangement (a daily schedule or roster) or an overall business result such as completing a customer order.

• input

• information

• objective

• output

An output of one business process may feed into another process, either as a requested item or a trigger to initiate new activities.

• True

• False

A (a)   is an input to a business process, and, unlike information, is typically consumedduring the processing.