I’m gonna write about why you should use Signavio to achieve your ultimate goal, which is turning into an efficient digital company. But in parallel, I’ll also write something about process mining and its marvelous additions to companies. As you all know, in today’s world, digital transformation is one of the most complex phenomenons for companies, if not the most.
Let’s start with why digital transformation is such a problem and what is the best way to challenge this mess. First, I’ll try to diagnose the problem then fix it.
Companies around the world make enormous investments (both material and immaterial) for digital transformation projects. I’m not only talking about the money you invested in also external expertise, human resources but motivation of the employees you acquired is also limited as well. Companies have only had one shot to complete their transformation journey and it is not enough to just finish the transformation and collect awards upon the project. They must create value after all. I think a lot of organizations miss that. Long story short, let’s start to list the problems:
- The complexity of S/4 HANA projects: Let’s face it. It is an unbelievably complex work to change all the processes of a company and implement these processes with different applications in a very limited amount of time. This complexity is not managable with traditional BPM tools anymore so we need more flexible and proactive solution for this.
- High Requirement of Collaboration: Two simple words: New processes and new business applications. Scary enough. If you can not build a healthy communication between all of the stakeholders of the project, then we can not talk about being a digital company. At the end of the day, perhaps we go backward instead of going forward after all the effort we put to this journey.
- As-ıs and To-be states are not clearly tracked in processes: SAP transformation projects require analysis of hundreds of, thousands of processes. And in reality, analyzed processes are changed in time. And during the periods when the project work is intensified, it is not possible to track and approve all the changes so this is where the chaos starts. Of course, this situation causes increased costs and project delays and many more uncountable problems.
We listed the problems, we can now move on to the solutions.
Our main goal is to turn into a digital company. Signavio aims to solve the most important 3 topics to do this job.
- You need to gain New Process Management Capabilities
- Enabling a Better Project Management
- Deliver Better Results
And the question is what should you do to create value from transformation projects within the context of these 3 pillars.
There are 4 main components of Signavio that help you to manage this complexity. Now I’m gonna give a brief introduction to all of them.
When you think in the context of Digital Transformation projects; I’m gonna start with Process Intelligence, then I will talk about Process Manager, Workflow Accelerator, and finally Collaboration Hub.
First of all, we need to detect our as-is situation with Signavio’s Process Mining solution; Process Intelligence. In this diagram, you can see the main processes and traffic lights that show the most critical metrics of these processes with near real-time consistency.
For example, while purchase order creation time is below the defined thresholds, on-time reception rates seem adequate. With these metrics, you can trigger an investigation and check details about the issue.
Let me highlight an important point; all of the indicators you see are interactive and when you click on any metric you can see detailed investigation results why is this indicator red, yellow or green.
I have to mention that, these reports are not fixed. So you can build your own KPI’s and reports and design it as you wish. By doing this, you can highlight your defect points and re-design your desired process. You can also use our KPI library to speed up transformation projects.
After you build and agree on your as-is state, now you should design your target point with Signavio BPM tool, Process Manager. You can document, centralize and collaborate for all of your processes with Signavio Process Manager.
Besides, you can also highlight the non-compliant process steps, risks, and ineffective points that you already know in Process Manager therefore you can easily take or plan necessary actions in the phase of realization or design.
So, that will enable you to support organization-wide transparency when you build your DT strategy.
After you define your as-is situation with PI and state your target model with PM, now you should build the workflows to track your journey starting from as-is stage and finish in to-be phase. With Signavio Workflow Accelerator you can create a wide range of forms to manage the complexity of SAP Project tasks. Without or with a little technical knowledge.
Also, you can integrate Signavio Workflow Accelerator with well-known cloud-based systems to gain efficiency in your task management. It doesn’t have to be just Signavio WA.
Last but not least, you can centralize all the tasks I mentioned in Signavio Collaboration Hub. With Signavio Collaboration Hub, you can create a single source of truth for all of your processes, target states, and workflows across your organization. So, you can view responsibilities, roles, process hierarchies, and process steps in a single platform.
Besides, you can also highlight and collaborate on why some performance metrics (for example, purchase order creation time that I previously mentioned) are not performing well in some of your processes.
What Can Solvia and Solvia RS Can Do
As Solvia, we have best practices and KPI libraries as well. What we do is we re-build these concepts/designs in Signavio and we enable you to jumpstart your design processes.
We have already tens of KPI’s, and more importantly we can enable you to define your own KPI’s.
We don’t know everything of course. There are tons of processes and we cannot know your processes better than you. The value we can add to you is translation of this knowledge into Signavio. We were partners with Signavio even before the SAP acquisition so we are always in connection and update ourselves whenever something changes in Signavio. So, if you have any questions regarding an intelligent digital transformation or process intelligence just let us know.
