PET
The Process Envisioning Tool (PET) is an easy-to-use product that allows sets of hierarchical process models to be drawn and integrated across many organisations. PET's highest claim is that the process models can also be automatically converted into a workable project plan.
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PET from Elipsis is a process mapping and workflow
visualisation tool with a difference:
By mapping deliverables as well as activities you can create
integrated business process models spanning your extended enterprise.
PET verifies the logic and integrity of your set of process
models.
By adding durations to you activities you can automatically
translate process models into time-based plans.
A consciously simplified set of modelling objects makes PET
easy to use with no need for prior process expertise. All the
PET newcomer needs to bring is a perspective on the work in
hand.
PET Benefits
Unlock you Quality Vault - attach procedure to process.
Append reference data - all of it accessible from the graphical model.
Tailor generic process to suit actual scenarios quickly and easily.
Model process in multiple levels of detail and maintain vertical and
lateral model linkage - model in 3 dimensions.
Model all types of process: top level, granular, routine, one-off.
Resource activities, first by role and then by named individuals -
reinforce responsibility and accountability.
Develop generic template processes and store when in best practice
libraries - off the shelf and ready to use.
Track flow of work and key deliverables across organisational boundaries.
Create a wider understanding of collaborative relationships.
How does PET work?
As you draw the graphical model of your business process, including the
inputs and outputs that hold it together, PET automatically constructs
a process database in the background. This maps the flow of deliverables
between activities to establish the chain of dependencies upon which the
process is founded. The database will even map deliverables across
organisational boundaries, maintaining and AKA (Also Known As) list
to allow each organisation to retain its native terminology.
How can I ensure process
quality and consistency? PET uses a well defined process structure,
allowing a verification of the process to be performed. PET's verification
routines check the model logic ensuring all activities have inputs and
deliverables, and that responsibilities have been assigned. PET also runs
a simulation and reports on any workflow impasses.
How can we push our
new process knowledge out to the whole enterprise?
PET model-sets (including their data stores) can be passed easily around a
project-team using the HTML export. Full or partial models can also be copied
and pasted directly into other applications. With this array of dissemination
facilities you can quickly develop a community of PET modellers, collectively
creating the bigger picture of the enterprise, tailoring the stock of
standard business processes to real project contexts.
But will our
teams stick to the defined process? PET has been designed with this
in mind. The tool allows you to define teams for each activity in the process,
and then let these teams resource their own activities and nominate durations. PET
can then provide exports to workflow and management tools, including out own community
workflow and management system, DREAMS. The result is a much fuller description of
project work and the interactions and commitments entailed throughout the extended
project team, which can support process-based planning.
Can we make
supporting data available at the point of need? PET allows modellers to
attach reference files and URLs to the model itself, e.g. templates and exemplars
attached to deliverables, and guidebook and checklists to activities. Not only
does this increase knowledge transfer when PET models are used
within an extended team, but these attachments are also retained
within our DREAMS system, to aid the task in hand.
You can also customise object fields, to create the
depth and detail you require. So, for instance, you can dovetail your
process models with your existing Quality Manuals. In effect you
are creating a comprehensive and easily navigated picture of the
enterprise, sitting atop a repository of vital project and procedural
data.
How can
I integrate may diverse models but retain a uniform "look"?
With its simple, standardised symbology and
methodology, PET lets a team create end-to-end models that are
vast but nonetheless seamless. PET provides many import and
merge functions to integrate multiple PET file simply. Hence a
community of co-workers can each describe their work in PET
independently, subsequently pulling all this information together
into one file for the enterprise as a whole.
PET also helps you connect your processes to those of your
customers and suppliers. The focus on nominating deliverables and
mapping inputs and outputs across organisational boundaries will
enable you to harmonise process across the supply base and
create end-to-end customer value chains.