Business Process Management Foundation

Advance your career designing Business Processes that deliver RESULTS using modeling (BPMN &+) analysis & transformation

3.70 (198 reviews)
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English
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Data & Analytics
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3.5 hours
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Jan 2022
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What you will learn

Break down, Represent, Evaluate and Improve Business Processes using techniques as Process Analysis, Process Modeling, Process Mining and Process Design.

Understand and manage Business Processes (BPM)

Interpret and use Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN).

Interpret and use Models to represent Processes and Data.

Learn to foresee the future with techniques of Estimation, Forecasting and Probability.

Understand how Business Rules and Theory of Constraints define the behaviour of an organization.

Understand how processes relate to Organizations and External Factors.

Description

Last Update: 29th January 2021

You wonder why the organization continues to follow rules and tasks that do not properly fit what customers, fellow coworkers or other parties need? You feel your insight and experience can improve the way things are done? Might be you are already working documenting processes or evaluating their performance and you still have a lot of questions about what you should be doing to make a difference?

You are right. Internal or External changes happened and the way processes were put together is no longer entirely aligned with the present circumstances or goals. Changes were done without first looking at the overall picture -or the specifics. Take advantage of your insight and experience to improve the processes and advance your career.

Learn how the business processes work in companies and other organizations, how to document, how to evaluate and how to improve them. Be a proactive agent of informed change.  Address the present issues and uncover hidden opportunities for you and your organization.

Course Summary

In this course, we discuss how to manage business process, how they relate to the organization and what external elements can affect them; breaking down their components (process analysis), put them back together but in better flexible shape (business design). 

What pieces of data to log in order to discover trends, patterns and details hidden in the way the processes work (process mining), how to represent processes so they can be analized (process modeling). And yes, BPMN goes here. 

We also approach rules that guide the way organizations do things (Business Rules). Discover what is hidden in the common idiom "a chain is no stronger than its weakest link (Theory of Constraints) and how it affects your organization and your activities. 

Modeling is next on the agenda. George Box, one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century, said that "all models are wrong but some are useful". Do you want to know why? We expose how you can use models to explore and explain processes and ideas. We explore techniques to represent and explain business processes and data models as well.

We close this course by looking at estimation, forecasting and theories as Bayes Law and Power Law to provide you with tools to foresee the future and prepare for possible outcomes. 

Yes, we borrow these techniques from Business Process Management and Business Analysis. They are useful to adapt to change and improve processes for the benefit of the customers and all parties envolved and they are promising means to advance your career as well, either you want to become a Business Analyst or if you want to broaden your own Profession Success Toolkit.

Come join our more than 95,000 online students. Enroll now!

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Content

Business Process Management

Business Process Management: What, Where, When, Why and How Work is Done
Organizational Process Assets: Your Plans, Processes, Policies, Procedures
Process Waste Analysis
Enterprise Environmental Factors: Those Things That Make the Organization Work
Process Analysis: Sets the Path Towards Organizational Efficiency
What Activities Can Be Automated - Preparation
The Way We Create Processes Around Here
Process Modeling: How to Make Your Process Visible
Use Cases: Interactions Between Actors on the Organizational Stage
Scenarios: Your Description of Enterprise Events
Process Mining: Where Process Management and Data Science Meet
Process Design: Defining the Path to Better Processes
Theory of Constraints: Finding the Bottleneck Within Your Processes
Business Rules Analysis: The Enterprise Policies and Procedures Unveiled
The Relationship Between Business Rules and Processes
Process Maturity Model
Improvement is Not Transformation

All About Modeling

Enterprise Process Management: The Road Map for Organizational Change
The Self-Correcting Org Chart
Why Models?: All About Making Things Visible
Business Process Models Notation: Your Standard for Process Visualization
SIPOC Model: The End to End Depiction
State Diagram: Picture How Systems Behave
Data Flow Diagram: View How Data Moves
Data and Forecasting: Making the Management of Uncertainty Quantifiable
Context Diagram: Understanding Your System and Its Surroundings
Entity Relationship Diagram: The Exchange Between People, Objects, Concepts
Requirements Decomposition: Break Them Down to Build Something Up

Data, Estimation, Forecasting and Probability

Correlation and Causality - Difference Between the Connection and the Cause
Useful and Non-Useful Data: All Data is Not Useful. Find out Why
Data Modeling , Data Models and Data Governance: Your Steps to Management
Estimation: What To Do When You Don't Know
Data Governance: Ensure Your Figures Keep Their Meaning
Regression to the Mean: If At First Extreme, Swing Back Again
Bayes Theorem: How It Was Helping How It Will
Concaving and Convexing Models
Planning Poker: Using Playing Cards to Drive Consensus
Delphi Method: Get the Bias Out of Your Head
Power Law: Small Chances and Big Consequences
Monte Carlo Simulation: Simulating Results For Probability's Sake

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Reviews

Christopher
January 30, 2023
Not very useful in practical terms... theoretical and just about basic definitions mostly. I wish I had checked it within the refund period
Rafael
November 19, 2022
Very interesting course. It literally nailed regarding what you need to know as a business analyst. Fully recommended!
Melissa
November 11, 2022
We can sense that the lecturers have knowledge. However, a huge improbvement must be done in terms of visuals. What is missing in each lecture is written keywords, texts that remain on the screen while they speak. It is difficult to follow up because the written material is barely existing. Of course, I am not referring to visuals with chunk of texts. Nonetheless, key bullets point and short sentences could help the understanding. Thank you for the course.
Marvin
February 4, 2022
It was not what I expected had some good nuggets. I was looking for more working examples. This was just lectures. I felt like I was in college.
Salim
January 4, 2022
The course is more a definition of the terms in this domain and no example that can help someone to grab the concept. Anyone can get this definition in wiki. Even a wiki is better.
Marion
November 12, 2021
love love love ! I am very positively surprised by the content. The videos are easy to follow, explanations on point and Mikes energy is just so contagious ?
Vincent
December 2, 2019
My intention is to map cross-functional processes and optimize through simplification, elimination or automation. An established approach is BPMN while (in my search) a newer approach is RPA (or Digital Process Automation). I interpret the course title with 'Apply' being hands-on, "Models & Forecasting" being scientific and "Master" being comprehensive. I concluded this course is like a lecturer in the business faculty teaching a business-man how others run their business. It's informative but not applicable in my personal opinion. it has the width but not the depth.
David
May 26, 2018
The title is misleading and the content is not useful. UDemy should take this course down, have the title altered, or have author update content. ~Lacks real world examples to apply ~THERE IS NO DATA TO WORK WITH!!! Yes, in this "Apply Models & forecasting" course, you will not work with any data! ...you don't even see them work with data. ~No case study to follow with Business Process Management section is him broadly talking about business terms in a casual manner. No example company or issues walked through.
Mahdi
April 21, 2018
Course materials are well organized, however, it could be more effective if there were files and docs relevant to each lecture so after each one we could review what has been explained.
Thomas
February 20, 2018
Engaging, information, actionable content. Instructor demonstrates mature, experienced understanding and expertise.
Nemani
January 29, 2018
Great, professional lectures. Clear audio. Appreciate the usefulness of this course. Regardless of you're already a BA or want to become one, methinks you should do this for sure! Thanks.
Dawson
January 27, 2018
Explanations are very much simple and elaborate complex ideas into layman terms, so I like this style.
Dom
November 6, 2017
Thanks, Michael! Sure glad of the opportunity to get your inputs. Looking forward to working with you.

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