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BPM programs live or die on the success of the pilot project, which in turn
depends on choosing the right first process. Since BPM initiatives involve
deep cultural changes, the pilot project has to deliver results that are:
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Start Small. Think Big. Scale Fast.
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Your BPM pilot project is the initial proof point for the
entire BPM initiative. If you pick the wrong process for your
first project, you will set yourself up for disappointment.
The following key points will help you identify and gain
consensus on the first process (or set of processes) that
will minimize the risk of failure.
Employees
Senior Management
The importance of gaining approval from the
upperechelons of management is obvious like in any
other project, they will either fund the future stages of
the program, or they will stop it dead. Because of this,
a highly visible pilot process with a good set of
clearly defined KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) will
have a better chance of success than a process that is
below the top managers radar or that cannot be
easilymeasured and quantified.
From this angle, an ideal candidate might be a
process that, from the outside at least, promises to
deliver large operational cost savings. A process, for
example, where ROI (Return on Investment) can be
demonstratedeasily. But dont get seduced by processes
that focus only on direct cost savings they may
require cumbersome organizational changes. Newbie
BPMsponsors tend to have a very short attention span
andyour pilot project may miss the opportunity window.
Therefore, when selecting your first process, youshould
also consider other KPIs beyond hard cash savings.
Consider those that improve cash flow (e.g. via faster
payables collection or reduction of capital frozen in
stocks) or those that improve soft measures (e.g.
complaint resolution time or customer satisfaction),
which will translate indirectly intoincreased revenues or
reduced costs.
External parties
Apart from the two core audiences covered above,
yourfirst process may also be visible to external parties,
like customers or providers. Their involvement in a
BPM project can significantly increase the impact and
the benefits of the project but may come at a
price: additional decision-makers, additional users to
educate and, potentially, additional contractual
obligations all add complexity to the project. Such extra
burden defiesthe core purpose of the pilot to demonstrate
quick results which is why we recommend that you
avoid external audiences in your first BPM project
andinstead focus on an internal process.
Isnt this a missed opportunity? Is the acceptance
and satisfaction of customers and providers
not important? Yes - but not at this early stage.
What keeps BPM programs moving is ongoing
managementsupport and increased staff adoption. This
will provide the spark you need to kick-off your
BPM project and light the fire for the longer-term
successof your BPM program. Just two of the areas to
benefit later on would be senior management (e.g.
via increased sales or reduced procurement costs)
and employees (e.g. via reduced pain with
customercomplaints or supplier litigations).
Quick to implement
Measurable via clear KPIs
Highly visible to management and staff
Solving your employees pain points
Focused on the internal audiences
70%
10%
Sick & Painful
20%
*Average number of processes that belong to each evolution stage in a typical company (based on customer study by Bizagi's global partner network)
PROs:
Positively, Young & Growing processes:
These are the newly introduced processes. In startup situations, every single process falls into this
category. However, even large and long-established
corporationsusually have around 10% of their processes
in this space. Whenever you open a new line of
products, enter a new market or change your operating
model,new processes appear.
CONs:
On the flip side, Young & Growing processes:
CONs:
Strong & Stable processes are:
PROs:
Sick & Painful processes can:
paper
Fail to follow standard guidelines and have many
variations
Generate huge volumes of emails, phone calls and
manually updated spreadsheets
Interact with multiple systems but are not tightly
integrated and require a lot of manual re-keying of
data (aka swivel-chair integration think of an
employee sitting on a swivel chair between two data
terminals, turning around to re-key data from one
terminal to the other)
Typically support non-critical, enabling processes,
that are indispensable for companys operation but
do not always have a clearly linked specific business
objective.
Examples of such processes include:
CAPEX approvals
Travel & expenses
Employee on/off-boarding, leave requests
CONs:
However, they may also:
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High Control
Compliant with standards, already partially
optimized, metrics and owners exist
BPM moves
processes to upper
quadrants
Status:
good governance
high impact
Implementation
low effort
high benefit
High
Complexity
Low
Complexity
ad-hoc, infrequent,
small number of steps,
data-intensive
BPM moves
processes to upper
quadrants
Status:
no governance
small impact
Implementation
high effort
low benefit
Status:
no governance
high impact
Implementation
high effort
high benefit
Low Control
Not documented,
participants unknown,
metrics do not exist
multi-step, multi-branch
escalations, exceptions,
SLAs, human intensive
system
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Low Complexity
and Low Control:
Skip and move on.
High Complexity
and High Control:
Excellent candidates
but dont go too far right
- nor too far up.
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High Complexity
and Low Control:
the source of the BPM programs
benefits but too risky for a BPM pilot.
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control
delivery
roadblock
Too simple the impact of improving them will not
generate sufficient momentum for the future stages
benefits
activities
coffin
Already supported by core systems (e.g. ERP, CRM) may
be already quite efficient so incremental improvements
cost-benefit ratio will not be favorable