APPENDIX BA Brief Comparison of Other Approaches to Process Analysis

AS EXPLAINED IN CHAPTER 6, process architecture analysis for enterprise transformation integrates ideas from a number of different approaches that are widely used by businesses. These approaches include value chain analysis, business process reengineering, value stream analysis, and process modeling. Each is best suited for a specific unit of analysis; we draw on their strengths and avoid their weaknesses to create a method for a less narrow, more robust process architecture analysis that allows you to identify opportunities for transforming the way the enterprise creates and delivers value to its key stakeholders.

Because these other approaches are in such widespread use and ...

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