Title: Assignment 3 - Business Process Modeling
Course: KVCC BUS203 > Section: Assignments

1.           For this assignment you are going to build a complete model for a business process. Eventually we will work on this using Microsoft Visio however there is another site that works well in this regards and that is listed below. You will have to create a free account however for our purposes this should work nicely and it has all of the components to quickly design a diagram.

https://www.gliffy.com/

2.           Assignment: The first step is to select a business process from a current or former business that you have experience with. You are going to then use this to build a diagram similar to the one in the text with you creating the necessary roles. You will have a week to do this and I expect you to go through at least a couple of drafts to develop this process. As part of your drafting process I highly recommend having someone look over your process and seeing if they have any questions and then revise accordingly. I would also like to see your various versions and a written description of what you revised and why. This can be done using annotations if the information is clearly spelled out.

3.           Once the diagram is completed you are going to analyze it and answer the following questions.

1.      What is the industry that this process is about?

2.      What would you consider to be the goals of the organization?

3.      Does this process match those goals; IE is it effective?

4.      Is the process efficient? Why/Why not?

5.      If your employer came to you and asked you to give three suggested changes to this process what would they be? Why?

6.      How could an information system change this process? Would this be a positive or negative change?

7.      What kind of "information" could you infer or interpret from this process? (To answer this you will likely need to personally define information)

8.      Your boss designed this process his way and expects you to follow it. You however do not agree and believe you have a more efficient way to complete the process. You decide to do your own method and ignore the wishes of your employer. If you are reaching the same end point is there an ethical problem with this? Why? There is no right or wrong answer you just need to defend your stance?

9.      How could you ensure that the information you obtain is of a high quality. Another way to put this is what will you do to ensure the information is Accurate, Timely, Relevant, Just barely sufficient, and Worth its cost. If information is already being collected does it match all of these criteria?

10.  What did you learn during this process? How does this change the way you look at this process?

Attached Files: | - KVCC BUS203_BusinessSysInt_Assignments 3(2).pdf