Tangible Business Process Analyzer

Kazue Kobayashi*, Ryousuke Mori*, Naomi Toda*, Yuuji Wada*, Takuya Ogawa*, Ayano Kenmotsu*, Makoto Nakamura*, Megumi Eguchi*, Takeaki Yamamoto*, Atsunobu Narita*, Mitsunori Hirano*, Hideki Nakanishi*,K azuhiko Tanaka*, Ichiro Kase* and Professor Hiroshi Ishii (* NTT Comware)

Tangible Business Process Analyzer
Tangible Business Process Analyzer is a collaborative tool for designing what a company's business process should be, in business process re-engineering (BPR).

Built on the Sensetable platform, Tangible-BPA allows mulitple users to directly model a work flow and control parameters such as the work force of a work activity using physical pucks on a sensing table. Bottlenecks in the work flow are shown as an animation based simulation. Estimated cost/profits, throughputs, and lead time can also be presented in charts. Users can discover problems, examine hypotheses, and realize the effect of the solution through collaboration between consultants, customers, and IT suppliers.

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