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A company needs to improve their Hiring Process and hired a BPM analyst to analyze their current process. The analyst completed documenting the current state process of submitting the hiring request (refer to the process diagram below) and did a "Value-Add" Analysis with the process stakeholders. Identify the "Non-Value Add" activities in this process.
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A BPM analyst is modeling the process for acquiring membership at a club. The BPM analyst interviewed the front office supervisor, who provided the following description of the first activity "Enter Application": "One of our receptionists receives a paper application from a potential client, an applicant. The receptionist first looks up the client's name and address to see if it exists in our system, then enters the information from the paper application into the system, and assigns a membership number to the application. When the application entry is complete, the receptionist sends it to the manager for an initial review." The BPM analyst has created the discovery map and now needs to enter information from the above description into the Details fields in Blueworks Live for the activity "Enter Application". For the activity "Enter Application", who is the Supplier?

 
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A BPM analyst is helping to identify and select the appropriate solution for process improvement in a large BPM project. What are the business levers the BPM analyst should focus on?
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A company needs to improve their hiring process and hired a BPM analyst to analyze their current process. The analyst completed documenting the current state process of submitting the hiring request (refer to the process diagram below) and did a "Value-Add" analysis with the process stakeholders. Identify the "Business Value Add" activities in this process.
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A company that processes applications has been using IBM Business Process Manager V8.0 over the last year. The company has asked IBM to analyze its processes in production because it wants to continue improving its processes. The IBM BPM team sends a BPM analyst. What should the BPM analyst do?
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A BPM analyst is documenting process problems during a discovery session. As a problem is raised, what are the two key factors the BPM analyst needs to capture about each problem to be able to prioritize them later?
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A BPM analyst is performing a process inventory analysis at a company that has many processes and has gathered all required information to calculate a priority value for each process in order to rank them. How should the BPM analyst compute this?
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The project manager needs assistance from the BPM analyst in building a process roadmap. What tool should the BPM analyst use to create a detailed list of areas of opportunity?
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The Human Resources department has pre-selected 4 processes as candidates for BPM Implementation. They think all these 4 processes have equal business value. They hire a BPM analyst to identify 1 process for BPM Implementation. What questions must the BPM analyst ask in order to identify a process for implementing BPM.
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A project manager asks a BPM analyst to assist with defining a business case for a company based on their goals and objectives. What are key components to include in support of a business case?