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Process Analysis & Design
Business organizations have concluded that the first step in achieving success is to analyze and define their business processes. A business process is a set of related business activities that combine to deliver something of value to a customer or to the organization. A business process model is the means by which an organization’s business processes are visually described. These processes, taken as a whole, communicate the business' best practices and are vital to understanding the common goals toward which the business is working. The goal of the analysis phase of a business process design effort is to understand how the processes of an organization or department function and interact; the goal of the design phase is to improve the way that those processes function and interact.
KBSI is an industry leader in process analysis and design, performing numerous process analysis and design initiatives for government and commercial organizations. In addition, KBSI’s extensive knowledge management work has included a process analysis and design component: knowledge management is impossible without documenting the processes involved, including capturing and containing both what is already known, the "as-is," and the new knowledge and skills that are acquired on a daily basis, the "to-be." Using this information, a business process model can then be created to provide a view of what the organization does (or should be doing) and how information flows in and out of activities.
KBSI is also the developer of the next generation IDEF methods: the IDEF3 Process Flow and Object State Description Capture Method, the IDEF4 Object-Oriented Design Method, and the IDEF5 Ontology Description Capture Method. KBSI's commercial software ProCap® (process modeling and analysis) and ProSim® (process modeling and analysis with simulation model generation) are based on the IDEF3 method, and the ModelMosaic® technology (ontology configuration and capture) is based on the IDEF5 and IDEF3 methods.
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