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Business Process Improvement Fundamentals

This beginner-level course provides a practical introduction to business process improvement. Learners progress from understanding processes and improvement opportunities to documenting workflows, analyzing problems, identifying potential root causes, designing future-state processes, and creating a basic implementation and monitoring plan.

Estimated Time

~240 mins

Curriculum

5 Modules (16 Lessons)

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+340 XP

Format

Step-by-step

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What You'll Master

Define the essential elements and purpose of a business process.
Identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, rework, and other process improvement opportunities.
Create and validate a basic current-state process map.
Analyze process problems and investigate potential root causes using basic techniques.
Develop and evaluate practical process improvement solutions.
Design a basic future-state process and implementation action plan.
Select practical measures for monitoring and sustaining process improvements.

Course Syllabus

Step-by-step curriculum breakdown.

5 Modules
Module 1

Business Process Improvement Foundations

Build a foundation in process thinking and understand why organizations improve business processes.

~45 mins
1.1

Define a Business Process

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12 mins • 1 interactive exercises
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Identify Process Inputs and Outputs

11 mins • 1 interactive exercises
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Recognize Process Customers and Stakeholders

11 mins • 1 interactive exercises
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Recognize Improvement Opportunities

11 mins • 1 interactive exercises
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Module 2

Analyze Process Problems and Root Causes

Learn to distinguish symptoms from causes and investigate process problems using basic root-cause analysis techniques.

~50 mins

Identify Bottlenecks and Waste

12 mins • 0 interactive exercises
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Separate Symptoms from Causes

12 mins • 0 interactive exercises
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Apply the Five Whys

13 mins • 0 interactive exercises
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Module 3

Design Practical Process Improvements

Translate process analysis into practical improvement options and design a clearer future-state workflow.

~47 mins

Evaluate Improvement Options

12 mins • 0 interactive exercises
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Module 4

Implement and Sustain Process Improvements

Create an action plan, define practical process measures, and establish a basic approach for monitoring and sustaining improvements.

~50 mins

Create an Improvement Action Plan

12 mins • 0 interactive exercises
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Define Process Measures

12 mins • 0 interactive exercises
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Monitor the Improved Process

12 mins • 1 interactive exercises
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Standardize the Improved Process

10 mins • 1 interactive exercises
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Module 5

Apply the Improvement Framework

Integrate the course concepts by applying a structured improvement approach to a simple process scenario.

~50 mins

Select a Suitable Improvement Opportunity

12 mins • 1 interactive exercises
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Define the Improvement Problem

12 mins • 1 interactive exercises
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Build an End-to-End Improvement Plan

16 mins • 1 interactive exercises
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Complete a Process Improvement Case

10 mins • 1 interactive exercises
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