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Chapter 5Information Technology and Changing Business
ProcessesManaging and Using Information Systems: A
Strategic Approach
by Keri Pearlson & Carol Saunders
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Chapter 5
Learning Objectives• List how IT enables business change• Identify ways in which IT can impede business
change• Understand the problems that are caused by the
functional (silo) perspective of a business• Identify how the process perspective keeps the
big picture in view and how IT can be used to facilitate this perspective
• Define TQM and BPR and explain how they are used to transform a business
• Explain an enterprise system and how they are used to implement organizational change
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Real World Examples• Cemex, a concrete company located in Mexico, needed to
“transform” the way they did business. – After 16 years they changed their customer key processes.– The CEO did this by challenging management to address the processes
that caused late shipments and unforseable demand.– Cemexnet was built to link all of the plants together and to keep them up to
date on supply and demand issues.– GPS system was implemented to help manage their fleet of trucks.– They also created a set of global processes that enabled customers,
suppliers, and distributors to manage their orders.
• Dramatic results occurred due to this transformation.– Delivery windows went from 3 hours to 20 minutes with a 98% rate.– Sales increased 19% in the first quarter.– Their reputation was greatly enhanced.
• Cemex reset the bar for all others in the industry with their customer-orientation, use of technology and process redesign
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Chapter 5
SILO PERSPECTIVE VERSES
BUSINESS PROCESS PERSPECTIVE
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Silo (Functional) Perspective• The silo perspective views the business as
discrete functions (accounting, sales, production, etc.). – Figure 5.1 shows a traditional organizational chart
which is how a functional business is organized.• Each functional area determines its core
competencies and focuses on what it does best.• Advantages:
– Allows optimization of expertise.– Group like functions together for learning.
• Disadvantages:– Significant sub-optimization.– Tend to lose sight of overall organizational objectives.
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Figure 5.1 Hierarchical Structure
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Process Perspective• Keeps the big picture in view.• Focuses on work being done to create optimal
value for the business.• Process is defined as an interrelated, sequential
set of activities and tasks that turns inputs into outputs, and includes the following: – A beginning and an end
– Inputs and outputs– A set of tasks (subprocesses) that transform
the inputs into outputs– A set of metrics for measuring effectiveness
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Process Perspective
• Examples of business processes include:– customer order fulfillment– manufacturing, planning and execution– payroll– financial reporting– procurement (see figure 5.2)
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Figure 5.2 – Sample business process
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Process Perspective
• Advantages:– Helps avoid or reduce duplicate work.– Facilitate cross-functional communication.– Optimize business processes.
• Figure 5.3 shows the cross-functional view of processes as they cross departments (functions).
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Figure 5.3 Cross-functional nature of business processes
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Process Perspective• When managers gain the process perspective
they begin to lead their organizations to change.– Question status quo.– Don’t accept “because we have always done it that
way” as an answer to why business is done in a particular way.
– Allows managers to analyze business’s processes in light of larger goals.
• Zara is a good example of a process perspective business (see chapter 2).
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Figure 5.4 Comparison of Silo Perspective and Business Process Perspective
Silo Perspective Business Process Perspective
Definition Self-contained functional units such as marketing, operations, finance, and so on
Interrelated, sequential set of activities and tasks that turns inputs into outputs
Focus Functional Cross-functional
Goal Accomplishment
Optimizes on functional goals, which might be a suboptimal organizational goal.
Optimizes on organizational goals, or “big picture”
Benefits Highlighting and developing core competencies; Functional efficiencies
Avoiding work duplication and cross-functional communication gaps; organizational effectiveness
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Chapter 5
THE TOOLS FOR CHANGE
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Incremental Change
• Total Quality Management (TQM) is a tool for change that uses small incremental changes.
• Personnel often react favorably to TQM.
• Greater personnel control and ownership.
• Change is viewed as less of a threat.
• Six-Sigma is one popular approach to TQM
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Six Sigma
• Six Sigma asserts that –– Continuous efforts to achieve stable and predictable
process results are of vital importance to business success.
– Manufacturing and business processes have characteristics that can be measured, analyzed, improved and controlled.
– Achieving sustained quality improvement requires commitment from the entire organization, particularly from top-level management.
• It seeks to eliminate defects from any process.
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Radical Change
• Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is a more “radical” change management tool.
• Attain aggressive improvement goals.• Goal is to make a rapid, breakthrough impact on
key metrics.• Figure 5.6 shows the difference over time of the
radical (BPR) and incremental (TQM) approaches to change.
• Greater resistance by personnel.• Use only when major change is needed.
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Figure 5.5 Comparison of radical and incremental improvement
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The Process for Radical Redesign• The different approaches for radical redesign all
include:– Begin with a vision of which performance metrics best
reflect the success of overall business strategy.– Make changes to the existing process.– Measure the results using the predetermined metrics.
• Figure 5.6 illustrates a general view of radical design.
• Figure 5.7 illustrates a method for redesigning a business process.
• Tool used to understand a business process is a workflow diagram.
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Figure 5.6 – Conceptual flow of process design
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Figure 5.7 – Method for redesigning a business process
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Risks of Radical Redesign
• Lack of senior management support.
• Lack of a coherent communications program.
• Introducing unnecessary complexity into the new process design.
• Introducing unnecessary complexity into the new process design.
• Combining reengineering with downsizing
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AGILITY AND CONSTANTLY REDISGNING PROCESSES
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Agile Processes
• Agile processes are processes that iterate through a constant renewal cycle of design, deliver, evaluate, redesign, and so on.
• Ultimate goal for some are agile processes that reconfigure themselves as they ‘learn.
• For a process to be agile necessitates a high degree of use of IT.
• Processes that run entirely on the Internet are candidates for becoming agile processes.
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Shared Services• Horizontal integration - term for looking
beyond individual business processes and considering the bigger, cross functional picture of the corporation. – Integrated databases, web 2.0 technologies and
services, and common infrastructure are the tools IT brings to the implementation of horizontal integration.
• Many organizations have restructured their common business processes into a shared services model. – This model consolidates all individuals from all
business units into a single organization, run centrally, and utilized by each business unit.
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Business Process Management (BPM) Systems
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BPM• In the 1990s, a class of systems emerged to help manage
workflows in the business. • They primarily helped track document-based processes
where people executed the steps of the workflow. • They go way beyond the document-management
capabilities, including features that manage person-to-person process steps, system-to-system steps, and those processes that include a combination. – Systems include process modeling, simulation, code
generation, process execution, monitoring, and integration capabilities for both company-based and web-based systems.
– The tools allow an organization to actively manage and improve its processes from beginning to end.
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FIGURE 5.8 Sample BPM Architecture: Appian Enterprise
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Chapter 5
ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS
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Enterprise Systems• A set of information systems tools used to
enable information flow within and between processes.
• Enterprise systems are comprehensive software packages.
• ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software packages are the most frequently discussed type of enterprise system.
• Designed to manage the potentially hundreds of systems throughout a large organization.
• SAP is the most widely used ERP software package.
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Characteristics of Enterprise Systems
• Integration – seamlessly integrate information flows throughout the company.
• Packages – they are commercial packages purchased from software vendors (like SAP, Oracle, Peoplesoft, etc.).
• Best practices – reflect industry best practices.• Some assembly required – the systems need to
be integrated with the existing hardware, OS’s, databases, and telecommunications.
• Evolving – the systems continue to change to fit the needs of the diverse marketplace.
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Benefits and Disadvantages of Enterprise Systems
• Benefits:– All modules easily communicate together.– Useful tools for centralizing operations and decision
making.– Can reinforce the use of standard procedures.
• Disadvantages:– Implementation is an enormous amount of work.– Most require some level of redesigning business
processes.– Hefty price tag (sold as a suite).– They are risky.
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The Adoption Decision• Sometimes it is appropriate to let the enterprise
system drive business process redesign.– When just starting out.– When organizational processes not relied upon for
strategic advantage.– When current systems are in crisis.
• Sometimes it is inappropriate to let the enterprise system drive business process redesign.– When changing an organizations processes that are
relied upon for strategic advantage.– When the package does not fit the organization.– When there is a lack of top management support.
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Chapter 5
Integrated Supply Chains
• Processes linked across companies.
• Supply chain begins with raw materials and ends with a product/service.
• Globalization of business and ubiquity of communication networks permits use of suppliers from anywhere.
• Requires coordination among partners of the integrated supply chain.
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Integrated Supply Chain
• Challenges include:– Information integration.– Synchronized planning.– Workflow coordination.
• Leads to new business models.– For example when banks link up to
businesses new financial services are offered such as on-line payments.
– Companies list needs and vendors electronically bid to be the supplier.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT: IS ERP A UNIVERSAL
SOLUTION?: CROSS-CULTURAL
BUSINESS PROCESSES
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Cross-Cultural Business Processes
• Major vendors, SAP and Oracle, show a western bias in reporting best practices.
• Due to problems encountered, businesses in non-western companies/locations are turning to local vendors.
• If the system is based on a cultural model that conflicts with the local customs and which can not easily be accommodated by the ERP it should NOT be implemented.
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SUMMARY
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Chapter 5
Summary
• IS can enable or impede business change.• You must look at business process to
understand the rule IS plays in business transformation.
• TQM or BRP are normally used to make changes to business processes.
• ERP systems can be used to affect organizational transformation.
• Information systems are useful tools to both enable and manage business transformation.
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