Essay MPM701: Business Process Management – Compostwizard Pty Ltd – Management Assignment Help

Assignment Task:

Unit Learning Outcome (ULO) Graduate Learning Outcome (GLO)
ULO 1: Relate the principles and frameworks of BPM to the achievement of organisational strategies and goals.
ULO 2: Generate solutions to organisational problems using the tools and methodologies of BPM.
ULO 3: Critically evaluate the appropriateness of enterprise systems to enable BPM and change.
ULO 4: Design and deliver informed recommendations about process change to a variety of organisational audiences.

Description / Requirements
Business processes permeate all aspects of business and it is arguable that if a business is not adopting a business process management approach to realise its strategies, and its subsequent objectives and goals, then it may reduce its chances for success – even its very survival. By taking a business process management approach, organisations can improve their chances of succeeding in their quests for sustained competitive advantages through greater efficiencies, quality, innovation and customer responsiveness. In, what is now, a highly competitive, global, interconnected and uncertain business environment, there has never been a better time to draw on the advantages offered by applying the BPM discipline to any business or organisation anywhere.

Objective
Upon successfully completing this assignment you will have demonstrated that you can provide clear written advice, and recommendations for change, to a business owner, in relation to business process management (BPM). Your advice will offer the business owner several reasons for adopting a business process management approach including:

• an explanation as to what the current business processes are and why they should be redesigned
• a proposed redesign solution
• any special considerations that need to be taken into account to deliver the proposed solution successfully
• succinct recommendations

In providing your advice to the business owner you will take into account various perspectives and circumstances encompassing the business.

Overview of Compostwizard Pty Ltd
Darlene Daylight is the inventor of the Compostwizard. The Compostwizard is a solar driven digging device approximately 1.5 metres in length, containing a carbide tipped, stainless steel retractable probe 200 millimetres long. The Compostwizard utilises a miniature micro-computer combined with nano-technology to instantly analyse and calculate soil composition and provide precise instructions for transforming unusable, useless soil into luscious, nutrient rich compost/top soil capable of growing most plants and vegetables. Details of soil composition are wirelessly transferred by the device to a secure cloud based data repository developed and maintained by Darlene.

The Compostwizard is made entirely of carbon fibre rendering it extremely light and therefore easy to use by people of all ages. It has attracted enormous popularity amongst a range of users including home and market gardeners, commercial nurseries and farmers both private and commercial and demand has always exceeded supply.

Coming from a farming background, Darlene was always looking for ways to improve soil condition as this has an enormous impact on a farm’s productive capacity. After leaving home, she decided to purchase a hobby farm and after meeting her husband (a former graduate of Deakin University’s engineering faculty) she spent the next decade developing the Compostwizard. Their greatest challenge was ensuring that the stainless steel probe could operate effectively in all soil types and under all temperatures. After years of testing, Darlene eventually launched the Compostwizard under a new business venture in 2014.

Darlene’s new business is a private company called Compostwizard Pty. Ltd. The business manufactures and distributes the Compostwizard but the two most important components (the carbon casing and the stainless steel probe) are obtained from external suppliers located in Canada and Spain respectively. The supplier in Spain is the only company in the world capable of making the probe.