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A holistic approach to harnessing a company's processes to achieve true customer satisfaction
Every move that a corporation makes is a mixture of input, action, and output-in short, a process. To keep customers, employees, and shareholders happy, corporate management must juggle conflicting priorities. These competing priorities result in conflicting processes. To help achieve true customer satisfaction, manage-ment needs tools that allow for a holistic approach to analyzing these processes. This book provides that tool. It shows corporations how to analyze and enhance their critical processes in order to deliver the highest level of service to their internal and external customers. Providing a clear understanding of what process mapping can do for a company as well as practical applications for each step in process mapping, this useful guide outlines a proven method for assuring better processes and building a more customer-focused company.

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Business Process Mapping is a powerful tool that offers a solid understanding of any given process, finds effective ways for that process to be more successful, and ensures that true value is being provided to customers. It allows all the individuals involved in a process to gain a better understanding of that process with a simple, yet powerful approach that anyone can utilize--from management to internal auditor to external consultant. Process Mapping is a holistic approach that includes the added benefit of increased employee ownership of ideas and, therefore, increased company morale.

Business Process Mapping represents a full, prac-tical discussion of this new tool. It provides the reader a fuller understanding of what processes are, then provides practical applications for each step in Process Mapping. It discusses the com-plete cycle of business Process Mapping and links business objectives, risks, and measures of success to the processes being mapped. Also included are numerous case studies and a wide range of tools for better implementing Process Mapping. To help understand the various steps in the mapping process, a detailed example is introduced and used throughout the book.

The four major steps of Process Mapping are fully explained:
* Process identification--attaining a full understanding of all the steps of a process
* Information gathering--identifying objectives, risks, and key controls in a process
* Interviewing and mapping--understanding the point of view of individuals in the process and designing actual maps
* Analysis--utilizing tools and approaches to make the process run more effectively and efficiently

Included in the book are various specialized tools that include questionnaires, process analysis worksheets, hierarchy/owner maps, and the techniques to be used in developing effective process maps. Business Process Mapping is a simple and definitive guide to Process Mapping suitable for individuals at any management level.