Practical Guide to Business Process Reengineering Using Idef0

Discover IDEF0, Chosen by the DoD As a Government Standard for Business Process Reengineering!

This book answers the call for a concise, comprehensive introduction to IDEF0 and its application in business process reengineering (BPR) efforts.

Here is all the essential information about the IDEF0 method, the function analysis portion of the Integration Definition (IDEF) Methods — its definition, basic rules of usage (including the standard language syntax and semantics as contained in the Federal Standard), and lessons learned from many years of application in the real world.

The book features examples based on actual models of commercial clients and government agencies. By studying IDEF0 models, readers learn how the method might be applied to the various aspects of enterprise analysis or systems analysis and what goals and benefits are reasonable to expect from its application.

IDEF0 is at the heart of the DoD's version of BPR. In the private sector, industrial organizations that may have initially discovered IDEF through one or more government contracts have adopted it as a method for use with their own corporate BPR efforts.

Use this book to apply the techniques of this increasingly popular member of the IDEF family of methods!