Course Description

This introductory tutorial teaches you how to analyze the processing aspects of any business large or small. It is also an essential part of what’s known as Business Process Improvement.

This tutorial is intended to give you a good knowledge of Process Analysis concepts and a reading knowledge of the process analysis effort result, which is a Business Process Analysis Specification.

That specification captures the Essential Business Processing and Workflow in an organization or business area.

The goal of this course is to give you the knowledge to realize the importance of a good analysis effort and its benefit to any business. In this course you will learn how to separate Analysis from Design and implementation issues and be able to specify the essential requirements which will be used to create a successful business structure.

Even though this is an introductory Business Process Analysis course it contains a significant amount of information that should be helpful to your career and any business to which you apply the concepts.

President and CEO of Logical Conclusions

Brian Dickinson

Brian Dickinson’s Biography Brian Dickinson is President of Logical Conclusions, Inc., a training and consulting company specializing in how to create a Customer Focused, Event-Driven organization. For over three decades he has assisted Business Process Management/Improvement and Re-engineering projects at many major corporations and government agencies. Brian is the creator of numerous videos and educational tutorials on how to create the definitive efficient business structure for any organization. He also conducts business user and technical workshop seminars as well as gives talks at many Business Process/Information Resource conferences such as: conducting keynote and featured speeches at universities, ProjectWorld, GIGA Business Process & Workflow International and Workflow & Re-Engineering International Association (WARIA). He has also given talks at DCI/Shared Insights and Enterprise Architecture and Business Process Management IIRM conferences. He has published many books and articles on Event-Driven concepts. His latest e-books are titled “How to Analyze a Business” and “Strategic Business Planning”. He is a proud participant in the US Citizen Ambassador Program representing the U.S. in China and Russia.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction to the Course

    • Introduction to the course

    • Intro and Outline
  • 2

    Goals and Context of Business Process Analysis

    • Goals and Context of Business Process Analysis

    • Goals and Context
  • 3

    Events and Event Types

    • Events and Event Types

    • Events and Event Types

  • 4

    Creating A Process Model

    • Creating A Process Model

    • Creating A Process Model
  • 5

    Defining Data Flow

    • Defining Data Flow

    • Defining Data Flow
  • 6

    Defining Stored Data

    • Defining Stored Data

    • Defining Stored Data
  • 7

    Process Specification

    • Process Specification

    • Process Specification
  • 8

    Beginnings of Design

    • Beginnings of Design

    • Beginnings of Design
  • 9

    Conclusion

    • Conclusion

    • Conclusion