Guidelines and Checklist for Innovate phase
Purpose:
The purpose of this document is to provide draft guidance and a checklist
for facilitators, modelers and project participants in the Innovate phase.
“Redesigned processes are more than just nice process models”. When
you commence the Innovate phase to produce new, or improve the
existing processes, it is crucial to understand the objectives which have
been agreed during the Executive Workshop(s). This is the best method of
ensuring that effective, efficient and appropriate processes are developed.
Furthermore, when you have agreed and documented the Innovate
Guidelines up front, it is easier, faster and more efficient to make the
changes to the processes, because you already have the context for the
Innovate phase of the project. This will generate more agile and more
easily altered processes.
These guidelines and checklist ensure that there is common ground for
Business, Technology Services (IT) and Process Modelers.
There are a number of questions that should be addressed and answered
before or during the Innovate phase. Please add, change or delete to the
questions as appropriate for your organization and project.
Identifying the Processes:
Name of processes
Process Owner(s)
Who are the stakeholders
(specify how they relate to
the processes)
How do these processes
relate to the objectives of
the objectives of the
organization or business
unit
Change:
Who is the primary sponsor
for change?
Who authorised the
change?
What are the main drivers
for the change?
What are the main goals to
be met by the Redesigned
processes?
What is the ‘gap’ between
the current processes and
the proposed Redesigned
processes? (this may or
may not be necessary to
know)
What are the main
bottlenecks in the current
processes? (to ensure that
the new process eliminates
or at least minimizes them)
What is working well in the
current process?
Selecting the best alternative:
What is the main strategy
selected for the processes?
For example:
Customer Intimacy
Product Leadership
Operational Excellence
Which process alternatives
are there?
What are the criteria used
for selection?
Which alternative has been
selected?
Why?
Detailing the process:
What are the main
characteristics of the new
processes?
Is there any processes that
can be used as a reference?
If so, which one?
Who are the (internal)
customers?
What added value does this
processes provide to
customers?
Metrics, Compliance and Risk:
What are the output
metrics?
If not specified, why not?
Have metrics been defined?
If so, what metrics have
been defined?
If not, why not?
Have process costs been
specified?
If so, what costs?
If not, why not?
When have the process(es)
been signed-off by Risk?
If not, why not?
When have the process(es)
been signed-off by
internal / external auditors
for compliance?
If not, why not?
Impact:
What is the impact on
customers?
If any, how is it to be
handled?
What is the impact on
employees?
If any, how is it to be
handled?
What is the impact in the
application systems and IT?
If any, how is it to be
handled?
What is the impact on other
processes?
If any, how is it to be
handled?
Implementation:
What are the success
criteria for the process /
project implementation
(Red Wine Test)?
To whom will the changes
be communicated and in
what way?
Is training required?
Is simulation required?
Is migration involved from
the existing to the new
situation?
Evaluate performance and
process model