Business Process Redesign: Design the Improved Process

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Abstract:

This thesis reports the results of a business activity modeling exercise to explore how a functional manager in DoD can best improve and redesign ones business processes. The validity of exercise results was assessed and found to be generally accurate with minor modifications. The business activity model was constructed by a facultystudent team in August of 1992, in support of DoDs Corporate Information Management CIM initiative. This team used an Integrated Definitions Language IDEFO supported software tool Design IDEF by Meta Software of Cambridge, Massachusetts to construct their model. Identify customer needs, Incremental process improvement, Radical business process, Redesign or Reengineering, IDEFO.

Author(s):
Warwick, Jerry L.
Author Organization(s):
NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
Descriptive Note:
Master's thesis,
Pagination:
0155

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DOCUMENT & CONTEXTUAL SUMMARY

Distribution:
Approved For Public Release
Distribution Statement:
Approved For Public Release; Distribution Is Unlimited.

RECORD

Collection: TR
Identifying Numbers
Monitor Series:
NPS
 Subject Terms
Joint Capability Areas:
JCA_5_Command and Control; JCA_5.3_Planning; JCA_5.4_Decide; JCA_7.2.1_Mitigate Lethal Effects; JCA_7.2_Mitigate; JCA_7_Protection; JCA_5.4.5_Intuit; JCA_5.3.2_Apply Situational Understanding; JCA_4.6_Engineering; JCA_1_Force Support; JCA_4.6.1_General Engineering; JCA_5.3.4_Develop Courses of Action; JCA_5.3.5_Analyze Courses of Action; JCA_4.2_Supply; JCA_4.2.2_Inventory Management; JCA_6.4.1_Secure Information Exchange; JCA_1.2_Force Preparation; JCA_6_Net Centric; JCA_8_Building Partnerships; JCA_5.6.1_Assess Compliance with Guidance; JCA_5.6_Monitor
Modernization Areas:
Fully Networked C3; Quantum Science and Computing
Communities of Interest:
Ground and Sea Platforms
Descriptor(s):
*SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, *MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS, *CORPORATE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, *INFORMATION PROCESSING, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, MANAGEMENT, MODIFICATION, QUESTIONNAIRES, THESES, MODELS, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, COMMERCE
Field(s)/Group(s):
Administration and Management, Information Science, Computer Programming and Software
Keyword(s):
REENGINEERING, PROCESS IMPROVEMENT, IDEFO(INTEGRATED DEFINITION LANGUAGE), CIM(COLLECTION)
Report Date:
1993 Sep 01