The Importance of Chalking-out Business Process(es). The DNA for Creativity

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This post is Part 2 of the series "Generalizing the Secret Ingredients for making any Process Improvement Project a Success Story". In the first part we reviewed a brief overview of the series. Please follow the previous post to have a clearer view on the subject. Your comments, feedback and insights are welcomed.

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Chalking-out the structure, design and/or process flow is among natural process(es) which is similar to humans. Human is the best example of being chalked-out from all aspects in a DNA Structure, this simply implies that design/structure is the basis for any behavior and/or function. Moving on to another example of a well constructed building you will find that the workers have worked harder but if you closely examine you will find that these workers are bound to follow the design hence design is the real wonder and it is the architect who has enabled workers to work in such a way that they build a masterpiece.

Likewise dreaming, visioning and/or visualizing which is the DNA for creativity, the Business Process is also important for making any Process Improvement Project a Success Story.

Following are some of the benefits of chalking-out/plotting business process(es):

1. Plotting the whole process gives a visual version is important as this gives a more clearer picture. It has also been proved through research and various other studies that visuals leave a more powerful and lasting effect in terms of retention on the subject.

2. Plotting the processes helps to visually calculate the risk(s) as the assessment of risk(s) are difficult in complex process(es) and sometimes even in the simpler processes. Plotting solves this issue and depicting risk(s) becomes very easy. The risk(s) are usually associated with the shifts from one process/state to another. Plotting helps you know the shifts in the process(es) visually.

3. Once business process(es) are plotted they are useful for all types of complex and/or simple projects and this provides an easy path while constituting changes and improvements.

4. Plotting enables continual improvement that is identifying problem(s)/issue(s) > solving it > sustaining it for sometime and > then moving ahead. Also further improvement(s) in the process(s) can be easily identified.

5. Plotting helps complex process(es) to be easily understood as it is broken down into sequential and systematical flow of event(s).

6. Plotting reinforce better controls as no process remains complex as after plotting these are broken down into steps as explained in the 5th benefit.

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Asif Pervez is the founder and life coach at QuBpro Research Institute. Asif is a Futurist, a Business Process and Supply Chain Management technocrat with strategic vision powered with 15+ years of accomplishment at driving savings, optimizing and improving process, operations, planning and instituting innovative solutions while focusing on quality and service. The experience, knowledge and trainings have equipped Asif with latest tools and techniques to have macroscopic as well as microscopic view of problems and to run high end process improvement programs and conduct successful information systems implementations.

The views expressed in this blog are based on the author's experience and do not reflect his current or past employers