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"The supplier's ability to influence the price they charge for supplies, including
material labor and service",
supplier power
This is high when there are many alternatives to a product or service and low
when they are a few alternatives from which to choose.,
threat of substitute products or services
"Monitors processes to ensure tasks, activities, and responsibilities are executed
as specified",
workflow control systems
Continuously uses a systematic approach in an attempt to improve business
effectiveness and efficiency,
static process
Continuously changing and providing business solutions to ever-changing
business operations,
dynamic
The analysis and redesign of workflows within and between enterprises,
business process reengineering (BPR)
Results in a product or service that is received by an organization's external
customer,
customer-facing process
"The activity of creating a detailed flowchart or process map of a work process,
showing its input task and activities in a structured sequence",
business process modeling or mapping
"A graphic description of a process, showing the sequence and process task,
which is developed for a specific purpose and from a selected viewpoint",
business process model
A graphical notation that depicts the steps in a business process,
business process model and notation (BPMN)
Represents the current state of the operation that has been mapped without any
specific improvements or changes to existing processes,
as-is process model
Shows the results of applying change improvement opportunities to the current
as-is process model,
to-be process model
"Documents the steps or activities of a workflow by grouping activities into swim
lanes, which are horizontal or vertical columns containing all associated activities
for that category department",
swim lane diagram
The person responsible for the end-to-end functioning of a business process,
process owner