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Things You Need to Know Before You Start Your Process Transformation Journey

We live in a world of disruption 

The external pressure for transformation and permanent change is as high as ever before. It’s time to protect your business and support the changes needed to ensure your company’s success in the future. It’s time to start your transformation journey now! 

But what makes the difference between success and failure in a transformation project? 

There is no magical recipe or a secret weapon, but the following tips will help you to stay focused on the big picture: 

  1. Start small 
    Start with the low-hanging fruit. Great things start with small beginnings: focus on areas for improvement that offer quick time-to-value, demonstrate success, and establish credibility. Choose projects that can be completed quickly and at low cost. Select a use case that has high visibility across the organization. 
  1. Know your goal 
    Define a clear goal. Your intention must be to deliver measurable and quantifiable benefits, such as the reduction of costs or processing times, or the fulfillment of compliance issues. Start with the result in mind, ensure that your stakeholders have a clear understanding of the goal, and never forget what you actually want to achieve.
  1. People first 
    Focus on people, not IT. Share information and knowledge, collect feedback, collaborate, and adjust the strategy when necessary. Prioritizing people makes a significant difference between failure and success. 
  1. Understand the challenges 
    Spread the news like wildfire. Persuade your employees so that your efforts will aid them in their jobs and inform them about the value the transformation initiative adds to their business. Prove that you are not wasting their time, create an end-to-end view, and improve transparency across your organization. 
  1. Keep it simple 
    Follow the KISS principle (Keep it simple, stupid). Are you going to develop a process landscape reminiscent of a construction plan for a rocket landing on the moon? Do you want your business processes to be comprehensible, traceable, and adoptable? Business processes don‘t need to be excessive or impressive, just usable and understandable for your employees. 
  1. Provide a single source of truth 
    Establish a new way of working. A single source of truth is the crowned king for effective business transformation. You need to provide ONE place for all company-related information and allow easy consumption of updated process information to win the hearts and minds of your employees. When starting your business process transformation journey, perfection doesn’t always have to be the ultimate goal, but progress is essential and iterations are acceptable. The only wrong move you can make when it comes to process transformation is to not make any move at all. 

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About ARIS

ARIS is available in six different editions

  • FREE start into the world of Business Process Management 
  • Essential features and model types, ideal for beginners 
  • Easy to use for fast results 
  • FREE start into the world of Process Mining 
  • Fast results on process snapshots 
  • Ideal for organizations that want to explore the potential of Process Mining 

  • Extend the scope of your business process management project 
  • Leverage the power of custom methods & filters 
  • Get more out of your business data with powerful design & reporting options 
  • Extended reach of Process Mining 
  • Living processes for continuous Process Mining 
  • Ideal for organizations that want to perform continuous process diagnostics

  • The enterprise-wide management system to design, analyze, optimize, and communicate your business processes 
  • Pick & choose the capabilities you need to achieve sustainable business excellence 
  • Enjoy the full portfolio of ARIS capabilities—and add solutions that map to your specific needs with ARIS Extensions 

  • Use the full potential of Process Mining thanks to multiple integration options with 3rd party systems 
  • Living processes for continuous Process Mining 
  • Ideal for organizations that want to embed Process Mining to achieve full business transparency 

More on ARIS Extensions

You can extend ARIS Enterprise just as you need it—according to your needs and projects. The ARIS extensions are here to support your expert use cases. 

Risk & Compliance 

Risk & Compliance adds capabilities for integration of regulatory demands & operational risks into a single approach and Internal Control System (ICS). 

Rollout Add-ons 

Rollout Add-ons set up and manage confirmation workflows. 

Simulation  

Simulation adds capabilities to test what-if scenarios and get information about bottlenecks & improvement potentials. 

SAP® Solutions 

SAP® Solutions adds capabilities to support holistic implementation & rollout of SAP projects, testing, communication, training & go-live support. 

Premium Document Storage 

Premium Document Storage allows ARIS to be used for storage of up to 1 million documents. 

SharePoint Integration 

SharePoint Integration supports users to work with SharePoint and ARIS in an integrated manner. 

3rd Party Integration 

3rd Party Integration allows integration with 3rd party applications based on an API. 

Robotic Process Automation  

Robotic Process Automation adds a “workforce” of software robots to automate repetitive manual tasks and processes, fully integrated into your process landscape. 

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