Role Definition and Organizational Structure: Business Process Improvement

ID Number: G00159547

28 July 2008

Elise Olding Janelle B. Hill

This document defines the BPI roles and depicts three possible reporting structures.

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Table of Contents

Analysis

1.0

Introduction

2.0

Business Process Improvement Role Definition

2.1		Business Process Director
2.2		Business Process Consultant
2.3		Business Process Architect
2.4		Business Process Analyst

3.0

Job Titles and Related Relationships

4.0

Additional Roles and Relationships

5.0

Organizational Structures

5.1		Option 1: BP Director Reports to IT
5.2		Option 2: BP Director Reports to Business
5.3		Option 3 — The Blended Model

6.0

Recommendations and Considerations for Roles and Organizational Structures

Recommended Reading

List of Tables

	Table 1.	A Sample RACI Chart for Collaborative Discovery Work

List of Figures

	Figure 1.	EA and BPM Are Synergistic

	Figure 2.	Role Relationships for Project Execution

	Figure 3.	The Complex Interaction of Senior Management, Sponsorship and Process Governance Are Necessary for the Growth and Sustainability of Process Management

	Figure 4.	The Mature BPCC

	Figure 5.	BP Director Reports to IT

	Figure 6.	BP Director Resides in Business

	Figure 7.	Blended Model

IT Organizational Structure
Business Intelligence and Information Management Roles

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