Business Process re-engineering (BPR) is the process by which an organisation
determines how it can optimally provide value for it's customers. It involves
remodelling the organisations key process from scratch and establishing
how those process models can best be deployed given the organisations constraints
: resources and goals etc.
In recent times the development of business process modelling technologies
has focused on the tools used to model the business process and the hardware
and software which actually executes the processes.
Until now. This week ColeTech revealed details of a new process methodology
which instead of focusing on the tools and runtime components of process
modelling, instead focuses on the materials. Kieran Coleman explains;
"ColeTech is the first Irish-owned organisation to deliver business
processes modelled entirely in clay. We're also the first Irish-owned organisation
wholly owned in the Uk and in America." "The food's great over
there" explains Coleman.
"We recently modelled a process which described how a large motor
manufacturer could optimise their sourcing of materials from multiple suppliers
using competitve tendering". "It looked like a long clay sausage."
Coleman describes the differences between a complex process model, rendered
in clay, and a clay model of a long sausage as being "around three
grand".
ColeTech deliver process models in four different colours of clay.
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