Creating a Functional Interdependency Map for Supporting the “Act of Improvement” in Business Process Improvement Projects

Abstract

Business process improvement (BPI) is of high priority for practitioners. But especially the most value-adding phase in a BPI project, namely the “act of improvement”, is insufficiently supported despite the many existing methods and techniques. Until now, it is largely unclear as to what degree existing BPI techniques support each other and are interrelated with one another. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the functional interdependencies between BPI techniques to get a better understanding for the beneficial synergies between the BPI techniques and to provide a basis for purposefully combining them within projects. Based on the functional interdependencies, a graphical “Functional Interdependency Map” is developed and its usability demonstrated in an experiment. The paper is valuable for academics and practitioners alike because the impact of BPI on organizational performance is high.

Improving the Efficiency of a Public Health Service by Designing Its Innovation Management Structure Based on Data Envelopment Analysis

“…A design methodology that integrates such methods ensures the final objective of increasing the efficiency of the organization under analysis, which is the subject discussed in Section 2.5. This type of integration in the context of process improvements, which is part of the design problem subject of this paper, has also been recognized by other authors (Johannsen, Zellner & Griesberger, 2022).…”