What is business process?

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Business process is a words that you'll find in the business world. An activity underlying all of business acts. Nowadays we often find people who didn't success in their attempt. Therefore, we should know and understand "What is the definition of business process?" before we start our business.

What is the definition of business process?

It consists of two words, business and process. Process is a group of acts including input, output and adding value. Whereas business is an organization or enterprising entity engaged in commercial, industrial or professional activity undertaken by an individual or a group.

so we can conclude that business process is a collection of activities designed to produce a specific output for a particular customer or market. it implies a strong emphasis on how the work is done within an organization, in contrast to a product's focus on what.

A business process:

1. has a goal
2. has a specific inputs
3. has a specific outputs
4. uses resources
5. has a number of activities that are performed in some order
6. may affect more than one organizational unit. horizontal organizational impact
7. creates value of some kind for the customer (internal or external)

Stages of designing business processes:

• validation phase: validation towards the beginning design using workshop. Workshop will ensure that all business processes are represented by valid business process model.
• simulation phase: business process simulation enables stakeholders to go through the process in a gradual manner and sequence to check whether the process has indeed as expected.
• verification phase: business process actually analyzed and improved in such a way that the business process model is a business process desired.
• identification and business process modeling: after going through the verification stage business process identified which roughly correspond to the new business processes to improve efficiency and achieve company goals.

Methodology to initiate a business process:

Initiate

To initiate a business process needs an executive sponsor in charge of running the establishment of reliable mission. Further at this stage required the creation of a wider team consisting of a core team and external parties as observers

Envision

Is an important step in the planning because it determines the scope of the business to be targeted.

Analyze

A working group was formed to run the stages of analysis and redesign every process and key issues.

Redesign

Redesigning a process by studying the process map. Easier to see the specific parts that can be automated.

Blueprint

Include a transition strategy and implementation schedule for all aspects of the plan changes.

Implement

For the successful implementation, methodological support for aspects of technological change, changes in human resources, and other aspects are very important changes.

Monitoring

Changes implemented after the change, it is important for organizations or companies to establish new performance indicators that will be mengukurkeefektifan business planning process to provide feedback on the changes.

sources:

• Jurnal Manajemen dan Kewirausahaan. Lenna Ellitan: Reengineering Proses Bisnis
• Enterprise Architecture, The Business Process Model (2004)
• Ahmad Rifai Za, Manajemen Proses Bisnis http://www.rifaizaonline.co.cc/index.php/matakuliah-mcio/bisnis-proses/414-manajemen-proses-bisnis.html
• Alvia Yulfitri, Proses Bisnis http://pipiew.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/proses-bisnis/