CAPI Fact Sheet

WHO | WHAT | WHY | HOW | RESULTS | TECHNOLOGY

Who:

• CAPI (Computer Aided Process Improvement)

What:

• Training and consulting firm specializing in building "as is," "to be" and "what if" models and developing simulation to automate:
  • Systems reengineering
  • Business and Service process reengineering
  • Manufacturing Process (re)engineering
  • Enterprise engineering
  • Economic sector analysis
  • Scenario planning
  • Process and downsizing analysis and decision making prior or subsequent to mergers and acquisitions
  • CAPRE(TM) (Computer Aided Process Reengineering) Workshops
  • One-day CAPRE Executive Seminars

Why:

• Fact 1: A business process cannot be reengineering until it is first engineered.
• Fact 2: A system is comprised of processes.
• Fact 3: Most processes, and enterprises for that matter, have never been engineered, much less reengineered.
• Fact 4: True process "engineering" requires the same methodology common to the discipline of engineering.
• Fact 5: Those processes to be engineering must be viewed within the context of the entire system (or enterprise) in which they operate.

How:
Management-by-fact based on a Maturity Model developed at Carnegie Mellon University:

• Level 1: Discussion of process, needs assessment, definition of problems, goals and objectives
• Level 2: Documentation of the process (or system of processes, as the case may be)
• Level 3: Process diagramming
• Level 4: Data collection, parameter definition and measurement
• Level 5: Modeling and simulation

Results:

• Cycle time reduction
• Prevention of needless expenditures
• Cost reduction
• Cost justification identification
• Productivity increase
• Throughput increase
• Improved profitability

  Technology:
  In it's simulation efforts, CAPI use the dynamic modeling and simulation tool Extend+BPR, offered by Imagine That!, Inc., San Jose, CA. In addition to using simulation in enterprise and process analysis, CAPI provides customization of Extend blocks.