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Business Process Revolution
Table of Contents:
Definition and Overview
1. Understanding the Need for Change
2. Performance Self-Assessment
3. Keys to Success
4. Business Process Revolution Methodology
5. Summary
Self-Test
Glossary
PDF of this tutorial
Self-Test
1. The secret weapon executives employ to revolutionize business processes and meet or exceed the speed of the market is to __________________.
a. add employees to get more done
b. downsize
c. lecture on the need to do more with less
d. start a business process revolution
2. Organizations committed to process improvement can reduce product development time to market by ______________.
a. 10 percent
b. 25 percent
c. 50 percent
3. It took the Internet ______ years to reach the same level of adoption achieved by the telephone in 35 years.
a. 7
b. 13.5
c. 21
4. Three keys to the success of a business process revolution are all but which of the following?
a. recognition
b. commitment
c. proven methodology
d. automation
5. Business process revolution requires that the business be viewed as a set of linked processes that are dependent on each other for their own and the company’s success.
a. true
b. false
6. Drivers and results are the two types of measures required in a process improvement program.
a. true
b. false
7. Dramatic and revolutionary process improvement requires the removal of _____________.
a. overhead
b. excess people
c. obstacles
d. layers of management
8. The largest obstacles in a process exist _________________.
a. with the people
b. in other departments
c. between process steps
d. with senior management
9. The way to determine the right aggressive goals for a process is to _______________.
a. use the best performance achieved in an emergency
b. determine what is needed to meet customer expectations
c. determine what is needed to best the competition
d. all of the above
10. Processes installed to circumvent obstacles must also be removed.
a. true
b. false
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