Anna plans to achieve the mentioned goals by analysing the core processes one-by-one, together with the employees that are part of these processes. Working with the teams, she expects much more insights in the number of exceptions within these processes to capture all the low-hanging fruit for improvements that the teams undoubtfully have. This also gets the teams fully involved and empowered in the changes that are expected.

Meeting Engage Process

Traditionally, Anna used basic applications such as Post-it notes, Visio and Excel for her work. However, with these applications it was very difficult to keep the team involved beyond the brown paper session. That is why Anna started using Engage Process.

The Modeler, Viewer & Teamboard

Starting with the Engage Process Modeler, Anna will be able to host an interactive workshop with the team and jointly map and explore the processes of the team and the work they carry out. The team got personally involved and took ownership in mapping and analysing their current way of working. They even used the Engage Process Brainstorm App, to send in ideas and suggestions remotely.

They got enthusiastic and reflected that this was the first time they truly had a good insight into their own processes. They highlighted the not-so-value-added process steps, identified relevant exceptions and found more than enough low-hanging fruit adding up big improvements. Most importantly, they got involved and took ownership and actually fuelled the transformation.

A great benefit for the transformation project was the availability of the Engage Process Viewer. After the workshop, the new processes were immediately placed in the Viewer, so the team had access to the processes at any time. With the build-in Feedback option they continued to provide feedback and ideas, even after the workshop.

For managing and implementing the many suggested improvements, Anna used Teamboard, yet another part of the Engage Process platform. The suggestions were entered on this agile-working scrumboard and linked to the appropriate processes. By digitizing and visualizing these improvement tasks she was allowed to take the team further along and reach her goals.

As you can see, Engage Process helps Anna to improve her way of working and really embed this within the organisation. The three parts of the platform help her with the different stages of the transformation project: analysing, improving & implementing.

Here to help

When using a new platform or tool it can be helpful to have a push in the right direction, so you know where to start. That’s why we’ve prepared implementation guides to help our users leverage Engage Process for all of these actions. These are of great help to a Business Analyst, that’s part of a large transformation programme. We recommend reading the whitepaper ‘7 Steps of a great process exploration workshop’, which can be downloaded here.