? BPG ® Business Process Guidance BPG what is The undeniable truth today is that our organizations need to grow while cutting costs. It’s difficult, if not outright impossible, to use the same old tools we’ve used for decades to improve knowledge worker productivity. But a new generation of solutions that manage and navigate complexity in the enterprise are on the horizon, and they promise to radically change the way we think about the cost and productivity of knowledge work. As a knowledge worker, the most difficult thing that you have to deal with, day in and day out, is the complexity of your work. Complexity is by far the greatest challenge that individuals and organizations face today.
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?BPG®
Business Process Guidance
BPGwhat is
The undeniable truth today is that
our organizations need to grow while
cutting costs. It’s difficult, if not outright
impossible, to use the same old tools
we’ve used for decades to improve
knowledge worker productivity. But a
new generation of solutions that
manage and navigate complexity in the
enterprise are on the horizon, and they
promise to radically change the way we
think about the cost and productivity
of knowledge work.
As a knowledge worker, the most
difficult thing that you have to deal with,
day in and day out, is the complexity
of your work. Complexity is by far the
greatest challenge that individuals and
organizations face today.
Complexity
The complexity in applications, sources of information, policies and procedures, as well as constant changes in regulations, makes you feel as though you’re in a strange city with a very intricate set of roadways and you must navigate these roads without the benefit of a road map. The uncertainty of business and markets changes the route you can take from one moment to the next.
Being able to use good judgment and make good decisions in this volatile context depends on how quickly and accurately you can navigate this ever changing maze.
The same principle applies to your work. If you look at your desktop right now, you’re likely to see dozens of applications scattered about, such as e-mail, calendars, desktop applications, enterprise applications, browsers, collaboration and social networking, and, of course, the ever-present paper.
To compound the complexity of these applications, over time we’ve laid technology on top of technology in a effort to simplify all of the pieces. In reality, the result has been a tremendously chaotic environment, sometimes held together by help or e-learning systems or other sorts of tools to help us navigate individual applications. But each of these tools are unique to their application,
The undeniable truth today is that
our organizations need to grow
while cutting costs. ‘‘
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It’s difficult, if not outright
impossible, to use the same old tools
we’ve used for decades to improve
knowledge worker productivity.
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and none of them really provides a comprehensive method that simplifies the situation.
We’ve tried to manage this complexity through other approaches as well, such as business process management and knowledge management. While these methods do help, much knowledge work is still highly unstructured, and you certainly don’t have the time to spend searching for, retrieving, and sifting through information. You’ve got to make decisions quickly and accurately.
For example, imagine that you’re a customer trying to get an answer to a question about your health insurance policy or your credit card statement. Why do you get put on hold so often? Because the customer service rep you’re talking to has to research the latest changes to your information, policies, regulations and procedures in order to find the information that they need and answer the question accurately. That may mean searching through online databases, e-mail updates about new procedures, and lengthy policies manuals.
The bottom line is that, by laying technology upon technology, and by continuing to use paper documentation as a source, we make knowledge work more and more complex and service harder and harder to deliver.
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The problem is not the technologies. Rather, we’ve addressed this problem for so long across only two dimensions: the dimension of applications and the dimension of information. We’ve added more applications and we’ve added more information, but we haven’t added more tools for navigation, tools to help guide us through all of this complexity. Our focus now should be on our ability to navigate what we already have on our enterprise desktops.
If we really want to help knowledge workers do their job better, then we have to give them tools that will help them navigate all this information quickly and accurately. How can we do that?
Let’s return to our poor customer service representative. He’s trying to access all this information and sift through it at a moment’s notice. He has no idea what the customer’s question will be. Any question is fair game. So we can’t define a business process to help them because no process will answer every single question that a customer may come to them with. What’s the answer? It’s amazingly elegant and amazingly simple. It’s called Business Process Guidance, or BPG.
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A new generation of solutions that
manage and navigate enterprise
complexity are on the horizon – promising
a radical change in how we think about the
cost and productivity of knowledge work.
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What is Business Process Guidance?
Business Process Guidance (BPG)is a revolutionary new approach to dealing with growing complexity – the single greatest inhibitor of business performance today.
Technology Compounds Complexity
Increased competition, customer expectation, and regulation mean that businesses have become incredibly complex, requiring countless new and ever-changing policies, procedures, and processes.
To date, the most commonly applied solution to the problem of increasing complexity is new technology. This is why we have seen the massive proliferation in ERP, CRM, BPM and a myriad of other software categories. But ask yourself this question: Have all these systems made your employees’ work more or less complex?
All too often new technology compounds the complexity of work. This is why, time and again, your organization’s major IT investments are just not yielding the expected level of return.
...have all these systems made
your employees’ work more
or less complex?‘‘
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When employees are
supported in real-time
through the complex maze of
processes, policies and procedures,
great things happen.
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Business Process Guidance Navigates Complexity
BPG is a breakthrough solution to this problem.
BPG enables you to:
• Define your organization’s policies and procedures from a role perspective. What does an employee need to know in order to complete any given task that falls to their role?
• Create comprehensive guidance in the form of text and diagrams that communicate these policies and procedures in clear terms that the employee can act upon quickly.
• Deliver just the most relevant parts of this guidance to employees according to their role and the task they are working on when they need assistance.throughbreak
Process, policy and
procedural compliance improves
dramatically.‘‘
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Supercharging Your Existing IT Infrastructure
Most enterprise application deployments are technically successful. However, they often fail to deliver the expected benefits, because people resist change. Employees see the system as something new to learn and, therefore, as an added burden.
Alternatively, when employees are introduced to a system that helps them do their job with virtually no changes to your existing infrastructure and no learning necessary, great things happen:
• Employees use more of the capabilities of your enterprise applications.
• Process, policy, and procedural compliance improves dramatically.
• The pre-go-live training that everyone quickly forgets can be eliminated.
• First-call resolution rates and customer satisfaction scores improve.
SharePoint is a powerful collaboration and information sharing platform that’s great for facilitating project work in corporate environments. However, SharePoint is not designed to provide rapid access to actionable guidance through time-critical and complex policies and procedures. There are thousands of these mission-critical processes within complex, changing and regulated industries like banking, insurance and telecommunications.
Organizations that want to support their employees in this way can, in theory, build out this capability in SharePoint, but it requires a lot of time and money without achieving a great outcome.
SharePoint and BPG are not mutually exclusive. In fact they are a great combination, with content in one system readily accessible from the other. And SupportPoint can certainly guide your employees through business processes they are working on within SharePoint.
Business Process Guidance and Business Process ManagementBPG systems are sometimes confused with Business Process Management (BPM) systems. However, they are two different but complementary approaches.
BPM and BPG systems work together in powerful ways:
• BPM simplifies and automates the highest-volume processes in your organization, while BPG guides employees through the large number of less frequently applied processes that may not be worth implementing in a BPM system.
• BPM deals with the gradual changes in processes, policies and systems in your business, while BPG is a fast response to the areas in your business that experience the most rapid change.
• BPM systems can make fundamental improvements in your operational efficiency but typically take years to implement. BPG is the path to significant cost and efficiency improvements in your current budget year.
• BPM systems can prompt end-users to complete or follow a process, but BPG systems provide them with the knowledge they need to complete that process correctly, consistently, in compliance with your business policies, and, most importantly for your customers flexibly.
Business Process Guidance and Knowledge ManagementKnowledge management (KM) traditionally focuses on helping workers collaborate and share their experience within an organization. KM solutions are designed to manage metadata, tag content, and facilitate intranet searches.
However, this approach is less effective in call centers and back-office environments, where job tasks are more defined and where speed, accuracy, and compliance are paramount.
BPG delivers real-time, actionable guidance in the context of each employee’s role. It identifies where the user is in a process and provides the most relevant guidance to get them from that point through the task or call resolution. BPG provides all the process, product, and systems guidance your employees need to complete their work completed in an efficient and effective manner.
BPG delivers real-time,
actionable guidance.‘‘ ’’
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A GPS for Your DesktopRather than trying to create business processes that are subject to constant change, BPG can adapt to every change. BPG helps knowledge workers navigate any level of complexity and provides an up-to-date roadmap, in the same way that a real-time GPS helps you navigate an intricate set of roadways.
BPG attacks complexity very effectively, and it does so without requiring you to tear out all of your existing technology. BPG allows you to deal with incremental and continuous change. You can sustain improvements by tracking them and making them part of the navigation for future users. The key to any sort of guidance is learning from your mistakes, from your wrong turns. BPG systems learn over time and provide incremental and sustained improvements for the process.
BPG also provides higher levels of accuracy in answers for any situation a knowledge worker may encounter . This is because BPGs are context-sensitive solutions – they can identify the skills of the knowledge worker and the context of the problem, which applications are open, how they work together, and which policies and procedures apply to any given combination of factors. Simply put, BPG deals with the tremendous depth of layers of applications and information layers across your entire enterprise.
BPM systems are like new freeways
that ease congestion – making it easier
for employees to complete tasks.‘‘
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Imagine the power of having a GPS for the enterprise! After all, if you found yourself in a new city and wanted to find your way around, you wouldn’t ask for a roadmap, you’d ask for a GPS or use the one that you have on your cell phone! Yet in our organizations we put up with a virtual absence of navigation tools.Why? Simply because there wasn’t an option. Until now.
A GPS for the enterprise desktop provides a whole new way of looking at the problem of complexity for knowledge workers and a whole new set of solutions for enterprises that are struggling to grow without adding costs and headcount. BPG cuts right through complexity, creating a straightaway that allows knowledge workers to get to the answer s they need quickly and accurately.
And it does so without requiring
you to tear out all of your
existing technology.‘‘
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Panviva is the developer of SupportPoint, a powerful combination of business process and knowledge management we call Business Process Guidance. Like a GPS, SupportPoint determines an employees, location in any task and then guides them through the process by delivering concise, up-to-date data and directions. �is improves accuracy, compliance and customer experience, while reducing training time and support costs.
