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Pearson BTEC International Level 3 Qualifications in Information Technology –
Specification – Issue 3 – September 2022 © Pearson Education Limited 2022
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Learning aim C: Develop a plan to improve an organisation’s business
processes and activities
C1 Sources of innovation to improve business processes
The process of innovation and idea creation.
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Sources of innovation to support process improvement:
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research and development
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customer and employee suggestions
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collaboration
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market research.
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Problem solving and idea creation methods:
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brainstorming
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cause and effect diagrams.
C2 Business process redesign and improvement
The concepts of business process reengineering and technologies used to support
process change.
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Business process reengineering (BPR) and its use to redesign existing business
processes:
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alignment of processes to business objectives
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use of technology to radically change how
a process is done
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analysis of organisational mission
and goals, identification of customer needs
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identify the
process to be reengineered
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analyse the current ‘as-is’ state
of the process
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design the ‘to-be’ process
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implement and test the redesigned process.
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Use of technologies which can support process change such as:
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shared
databases
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expert systems
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technology to
support remote working
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automatic identification and tracking, e.g. radio-frequency identification (RFID)
tags, Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking.
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