In essence, the Business Process Labs (BPL’s) comprise the heart of the project. Inevitably, the business processes are closely linked to the Business Case through metrics, and the ultimate measure of your project will be the extent to which project efforts translate into Return on Investment, and the improvements manifest within the business processes.

Consideration of the business requirements is a beginning point for the implementation team, and virtually all future actions taken in the Change Management, Configuration, Data Conversion or Migration, Interface, Testing or Education arenas are based on these business requirements.

From a Business Requirements perspective, the objectives of the Business Process Labs should include the following:

P Mapping business requirements to the functionality provided by a given release of software;
P Identifying additional functionality to be leveraged with new, modified or converged processes;
P Identifying and documenting configuration requirements, data requirements and interface requirements; and
P Defining performance measurements to effectively gauge improvements in business processes.

The BPL sessions typically occur following application orientation training, and cover each of the applications being implemented. During the course of the BPL sessions the differences between system and work flows are discovered. In the course of discussion, options for resolving gaps are discussed in detail and decisions reached on the resolution.

Throughout the BPL activity, the iStrat experts can assist you in:

P Establishing common business process across your organization;
P Identifying and implementing improvements in business performance through       improvements in business processes by reducing cycle times, minimizing hand-offs       through the processes;
P Identifying configuration requirements to allow you to easily fit the technology to your       specific requirements;
P Leveraging industry best practice experience;
P Identifying and establishing process measures to ensure output quality and efficiency       of internal processes;
P Identifying educational requirements in such a way that you’ll be able to train your       personnel quickly and at the lowest possible cost; and
P Aligning data hierarchy and systems configuration for optimal support of your specific       needs.