Business Process Management for Contracting and Management

To achieve the desired outcome of a management or contracting process requires more than just planning and execution. It also requires careful analysis and control of the interdependent business processes involved in designing, preconstruction, procurement, construction, closeout, and commissioning the built environment. That’s why business process management (BPM) is so crucial to the success of a construction project or company.

BPM is an integrated and systematic method of identifying the, modeling, and automating and continuously monitoring business processes. The goal is to align internal business tasks with strategic goals, leading to increased efficiency and profitability.

The BPM lifecycle includes six phases to reach its purpose that is to analyze, design, implement, monitor, optimize and redesign. The first step of the process is read more to look at the current process in order to identify areas that could be improved. The next step is to design an entirely new process that meets requirements of the business, using automation and standardization whenever possible. The implementation phase is designed to introduce the new process model as well as ongoing monitoring and optimizing are crucial to ensure its continual performance.

Construction companies squander hundreds or hundreds of thousands of dollars each year on manual tasks and inefficient business processes. This is the case both at the office and the construction site. Automating these processes increases visibility, improves operational efficiency decreases risk, and improves decision-making. It also helps reduce costs, improve morale of employees and facilitate better utilization of resources. To achieve this, teams must be able to see all their processes, as well as the procedures that underlie them.