ProcessPad for Consultants

This role helps to get projects off the ground by coordinating Business Users as they use ProcessPad to do discovery. Sometimes this may be something that is done by the Consultant hosting discovery sessions with process participants, and assisting with communication challenges across functional areas of the organization.

It may be an internal or external person. The role is to help the process owner complete the discovery of the process, and advise on any short term wins that may become obvious.

In ProcessPad, Consultants can;

• Map client business processes - organization-wide or job-specific
• Present the results to clients in an easy to understand format
• Publish the results to the web for client understanding and use
• Map the corporate supply chain, system interfaces, e-commerce processes etc.
• Identify the key interfaces job-to-job, department-to-department, with outsourced processes or with key suppliers and customers
• Develop information strategies around these key interfaces
• Re-engineer processes to optimize process flow 
• Drill-down many levels from top to bottom to see the details of sub-processes
• Use scenario analysis to see how re-engineering will affect resources such as costs and headcounts
• See how changing volumes will affect resources so that scenarios can be analyzed during business planning
• See the cost of scrap, rejects, downtime, and wastage
• Create powerful client presentations
• Identify processes for workflow enablement
• Prepare a toolkit of certified sub-processes for re-use
• Capture all documentation (Inputs, Outputs and Reference) and produce a cross-reference report