Tutorial F: Leveraging Business Processes with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
Half Day Tutorial presented by:
Zane Scott
Abstract
The power of systems thinking and systems engineering have been largely overlooked in
the arena of designing and improving business processes. Systems engineers recognize
that business processes are systems and parts of larger systems but very few engineers
have built the bridges from their discipline to the business process owners' turf in
order to bring to bear the power and leverage that they can offer to process owners in
search of efficient and effective business processes for today's lean and competitive
environment.
This tutorial will explore the business process system (people, hardware and software)
in a way that is new to the systems engineer and process owner alike. Systems engineers
are accustomed to thinking systemically and designing solutions to fully embody
functional behaviors that answer the systems stakeholders' requirements. Business
process design and improvement specialists regularly apply best practices and
organizational development tools to processes in order to make them operate at peak
efficiency and effectiveness. We will explore the marriage of these disciplines in a new
way of seeing business process design - a way that takes the discipline and rigor of
systems engineering and uses it to leverage the very best of organizational and process
improvement tools and practices.
From the power of the business process model derived from an iterative modeling and
vetting process to the benefits of a service oriented architecture (SOA) that actually
serves the enterprise strategies and goals, MBSE holds the key to unlocking the power
of systems engineering for leveraging business process design and improvement.
Tutorial Objective
- To present the role of MBSE in the design and improvement of business processes.
- To explain the power of MBSE to leverage Change Management, introduce best practices and facilitate SOA design.
- To provide a bridge to new markets and opportunities for MBSE practitioners.
- To aid in communication between engineers and managers about the power of MBSE to leverage business process effectiveness and efficiency.
Prerequisites
None.
Bio
Zane Scott leads the Professional Services group at Vitech Corporation. His degree in
Economics focused on the application of the tools of economic analysis to the public
policy arena. After graduate work in Counseling and Business Administration he earned
his J.D. at the University of Tennessee. Zane's career has focused on the dynamics and
processes of group interactions at the macro and micro levels beginning with his work
as a trial lawyer and continuing into his experience as a hostage/crisis negotiator and
large group interventional mediator.
He continued this work as a management consultant doing process analysis and improvement
work in both government and private settings. As a principal consultant for
Transformation Networks (TNI) he guided large and small groups in organizational
redesign projects using systems engineering practices and tools to bring discipline
and rigor to the work of making their organizations more efficient and effective. A
pioneer in the "nontraditional" uses of MBSE for organizational growth and development,
TNI was very successful in providing their clients the competitive edge that comes from a
rigorous approach to process engineering. At Vitech Zane brings to bear his knowledge
and experience with organizational process development and his skills as a facilitator
in leading Vitech's efforts to maximize their customers' application of MBSE and the
Vitech tool, CORE.
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