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

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 ____ 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.

Business processes use ______ 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 ______ is an input to a business process, and, unlike information, is typically consumedduring the processing.