Business Process Modeling is a system that is used for describing and communicating the present or planned future state of business. It is the means of representing the steps, participants and decision logic. It is used for improving the organisational efficiency and quality. In-short it is described as how work is done in an organization.
As the business grows, it’s important to ensure it runs as efficiently as possible even when an employee is not in the office. Any task, which is performed more than once and handled by different people at different times need to be documented. Here we look at different types of processes and why documenting them is helpful in business.
Define job roles: Each and everyone in the business should know their
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Documented procedures also help a team member to take sick leave without it heavily impacting on the business. If staff know exactly what their role includes, there will be less confusion.
Standardise processes: These clear guidelines for staff allows methods to be standardised across the business in order to achieve flexibility. This ensures that the staff can work across different units within the business and new team members can be trained by any existing employee.
Reporting procedures: No one is perfect and mistakes are made by everyone. There should be a direct line of command for everyone in the business which clearly states what can be done when an employee makes a mistake. These clear guidelines help the staff to react quick when they make mistakes and ensure that they don’t become big.
Streamline your business: Documenting procedures helps centralizing business and make it more efficient. It helps to reveal unnecessary procedures so that more efficient processes can be implemented. This helps in cutting costs and diverting staff attention to more important
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If they spend a lot of time on analysing and describing in detail about the project to the clients the system becomes highly complex, then it is quite hard to understand.
2. Possibility of Misinterpretation: As process modelling is a pictorial representation of business process, there is a possibility of miscommunication of how processes are structured. This may lead to misunderstanding the business process by the user and also how the client interprets what will be done about the project.
3.Possibility of Developer Biases: When consultants prepare business models, they try to add their own ideas on how things should be done and also add their past experiences with similar kind of projects due to this sometimes they lose creativity as they already have a plan in their mind.
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Bengough, Mike, n.d., Business Process Management (BPM) and Systems, MPM701 Business Process Management, Deakin University, unpublished.
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