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In a constantly evolving scenario, and with the challenges faced daily by companies from various sectors, ensuring business sustainability and success demands a solid approach. Macroprocesses are among the pillars of business strategy and efficiency.
There is a series of procedures, activities, and tasks that are performed daily to achieve certain objectives and goals.
Everything that is executed and is directly related to the raison d’être of the company can be an integral part of a macroprocess.
This ebook brings you a complete and definitive guide to help you understand the importance of macroprocesses and how essential they are to improve organizational performance and efficiency.
Additionally, we will provide an insight into how the use of technology and digital transformation are crucial items for implementing this vision and driving organizational development.
Understand the benefits and how to align macroprocesses with technology to achieve greater agility, seize opportunities, and consistently meet market demands with standardized quality.
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What are macroprocesses?
Macroprocesses are a set of processes and activities that are grouped or combined to achieve a specific strategic objective within the organization. They can also be understood as organizational structures that represent a high-level view of the main activities and processes.
Thus, a macroprocess is the combination not only of processes but also of different sectors and employees with different roles and functions.
For a set of processes to be considered a macroprocess, they need to be directly correlated. Even if they occur sequentially or in parallel, all processes have a certain degree of correspondence or are related to achieve strategic objectives.
Unlike other activities, business macroprocesses must be aligned and directly related to the company’s mission and raison d’être. Therefore, they represent functions, activities, tasks, and everything that is carried out to achieve the company’s core business.
In general, a macroprocess can provide a holistic and comprehensive view of the entire business, mainly eliminating information silos.
Identifying my company’s macroprocesses
Identifying a macroprocess involves understanding the company’s environment as a whole. Because of that, a comprehensive analysis of activities and workflows is necessary to identify the areas of operation that support strategic objectives.
A good practice for identification is to answer some questions such as:
- What demands does my company meet?
- What do we do and what are the steps we follow?
- How many sectors are involved?
- Is the work standardized, and is the quality of delivery always the same?
- What impacts does each activity have on the final result?
The clearer these questions are answered, the greater the understanding of the interconnections, interdependencies, and the company’s processes complexity.
Examining the importance and impacts of activities in detail favors the visibility of existing macroprocesses.
To identify macroprocesses, it is necessary to define and understand the organization’s strategic objectives.
Complete mapping a given workflow provides important data about all existing processes. One of the pieces of information brought by mapping is its relevance in relation to strategic goals. Those with higher levels of importance tend to become part of or become macroprocesses.
Regarding interconnections, consider which processes can be grouped and the dynamics of the organization.
Although not the focus, all this investigation for identification already points out possible improvements and redundancies that must be eliminated to make the organization more efficient and evolved.
As you might imagine, macroprocesses are not static and change as the company’s purposes change. To know more about this subject, download the full ebook:
