Chapter 17: Week Fifteen: The TO BE Work and Information Flow Blueprint and Steering Team Review Number Seven
Overview
Document how the business should work.
The goal of brainstorming, any facilitator will tell you, is to "think outside the box." There was some kind of brain research from a college psychology class that indicated children who haven't yet started school will score an average of 95 percent on a creativity test, while third-graders score 30 percent on the same test, and adults in the workplace score 5 percent. So much for "outside the box."Blend brain research with the fact that the relationships between supply chain processes are integrated and complex, and it's too much to ask for a design team to start building TO BE processes from scratch.So the objective for this week is not fluid creativity. Rather, it's to figure out how the business should work by reviewing the SCOR Level 3 Baseline Blueprint (refer to Table 16-3), adjusting SCOR Level Three processes between swim lanes, incorporating transaction language for the specific technology application that will be used, conducting logical business transaction tests, and calculating productivity improvements based on the changes.