Process Improvement

Changing the Way Organizations are Managed

 Formal process improvement methodologies have been around for decades. From Total Quality Management (TQM) to Business Process Reengineering (BPR, Lean and Six Sigma, companies have strived to improve their bottom line by streamlining their business processes. Central to any successful process improvement initiative has been an emphasis on business process analysis. iGrafx® provides a comprehensive, market leading Business Process Analysis (BPA) solution, enabling organizations to efficiently document, model, analyze, and improve processes and effectively manage changes as they’re introduced. Once processes are modeled and deployed Continuous Improvement and rapid business decisions are much easier, as future changes are necessitate by market conditions.

Responding to Change

Organizations of all sizes are undergoing tremendous change and pressure to change further. These pressures brought on by current market conditions, industry consolidation, and global economic forces create the need to understand your business processes and be poised to make effective and efficient changes to your processes in response to these pressures. The RIGHT changes enables some organizations to grow and thrive while permitting others to maintain current levels of profitability, retain key employees and difficult to replace resources, and be ready to respond to economic rebound when it occurs. The wrong changes may over burden an organization with inefficient processes that may cause it to be left behind when the rebound occurs.

Achieving organizational objectives regarding profitability, customer satisfaction and optimal resource utilization and alignment has often meant changing the way the organization operates and is managed. Whether following a formal methodology or implementing an internally driven initiative, many companies today are taking a process-centric approach to realize organizational efficiencies.

Visualize Change Before You Make It

Critical to any successful process improvement initiative is the ability to identify and analyze improvements to the process prior to introducing them into the business. iGrafx enables organizations to gain a greater understanding of their processes by graphically mapping, textually modeling, then via simulation, thoroughly analyzing processes in which improvements are desired.

For companies wishing to automate processes, the iGrafx tool suite allows process models to be seamlessly exported to a complementary business process management system (BPMS) using industry standard modeling notation and file formats. This seamless link permits business and IT stakeholders to effectively collaborate and successfully address key business requirements with automated solutions.

iGrafx Enables Process Excellence

iGrafx has been a leader in helping companies achieve process excellence for nearly two decades. By providing solutions that enable companies to document, model, analyze, improve and manage their business processes they gain competitive advantage in today's fast-paced, global environment.

iGrafx’s comprehensive BPA solution is used by leading companies in a variety of industries for a wide range of process improvement initiatives. iGrafx offers organizations a unique value proposition for increasing their ROI from process improvement. Our solutions not only enable insight into process behavior and results to create optimized processes, but also provide an organization-wide framework for process improvement that meets the unique needs of individual stakeholders as well as the needs of the organization while facilitating effective communication and collaboration throughout.

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