ABSTRACT

Leadership success depends on clarifying and simplifying complex problems while maintaining a positive outlook. Change or Die - The Business Process Improvement Manual provides you with the tools to do so. Packed with more than 70 pages of workshop tools, agendas, and activities that detail each of the six stages of the business process improvement (BPI) method, it presents a BPI method that promotes the use of facilitator-led workshops to help you and your team make better decisions.

Developed from empirical research and bolstered by the results of client experience from hundreds of hours of facilitated workshops and BPI activity, Change or Die employs the authors' ENGAGE methodology. To ensure your team achieves its deliverables, the authors walk you through each BPI method. In each chapter you will find:

  • Objectives and deliverables clearly identified
  • Real-world examples from companies the authors have worked with—presented using a global manufacturer as an example
  • Activities, questionnaires, and examples
  • A self-assessment tool to help you measure progress, identify gaps in team performance, and determine team readiness for the next stage

This resource-rich book includes downloadable resources with supplemental activities, challenges, facilitated workshops, templates, tables, and questionnaires—tools designed to ease each participant’s path to project success.

chapter 1|6 pages

- Case Study: URHere Co.

chapter 2|12 pages

- Vision and Goals

chapter 3|10 pages

- Change Management

chapter 4|18 pages

- Stakeholder Analysis

chapter 5|10 pages

- Core Process

chapter 6|8 pages

- Business Process Improvement

chapter 8|10 pages

ˆe Case for Business Process Improvement

chapter 9|24 pages

- Tools for Business Process Improvement

chapter 10|4 pages

- Process Selection

chapter 11|4 pages

- Process Characteristics

chapter 12|6 pages

Work‘ow Diagrams

chapter 13|8 pages

Work‘ow Characteristics

chapter 14|4 pages

- Phase Gate One

chapter 15|8 pages

- Dreams of the Process

chapter 16|18 pages

- Process Measurements

chapter 17|8 pages

- Strengths and Weaknesses

chapter 18|6 pages

- Business Process Improvement Planning

chapter 19|4 pages

- Phase Gate Two

chapter 20|12 pages

- Assumptions and Rules

chapter 21|12 pages

- Improve the Process

chapter 22|4 pages

Phase Gate ˆree

chapter 23|12 pages

- Implementation Plan

chapter 24|4 pages

- Phase Gate Four

chapter 25|8 pages

- Procedures

chapter 26|10 pages

- Audit

chapter 27|2 pages

- Phase Gate Five

chapter 28|8 pages

Wrap- Up