European Projects:
Global approach to business process re-engineering (GLOBE)
Objectives : Reducing time and costs involved in BPR activities, while increasing the overall quality of the complete BPR intervention, specifically
- Reduction of the time and costs to analyse an existing process by
at least 25 %.
- Reduction of the time and costs to evaluate process (re-) design
options by at least 30 %
- Reduction of the time and costs to develop the supporting IT infrastructure,
particularly Workflow systems and Executive Information Systems (EIS),
by at least 30 %.
- Reduction of the risks related to potentially wrong or ineffective
process re-design options.
- Increase of the consistency between process design and IT infrastructure
development.
Given an existing or new business process, a typical BPR (Business Process Re-engineering) tool supports its modelling, its analysis and evaluation, and the simulation and animation of its likely behaviour. Existing tools suffer from various limitations, among which: they do not allow the definition of a complete performance model; they offer a limited BPR decisions support; they do not provide support in the implementation of the re-engineered process, that is in the development and establishment of the necessary organisational, managerial and, particularly, IT infrastructures.
Achievements:
- An innovative BPR support tool, providing a number of advanced features
- An accompanying Methodology Handbook, which will define the process
and performance modelling methodologies underlying GLOBE, together with
tips and good BPR practices
- An Open Model Repository, which will support the smooth evolution
of a process design option, defined and selected using GLOBE, into the
supporting IT infrastructure.
Completion date: 04/99
Contact: BASSO, Monica, TXT Ingegneria Informatica SpA, Milano / Italy