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consider a hypothetical business process that we might call \"Planning and Imple

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Question

consider a hypothetical business process that we might call "Planning and Implementing a Construction Project." In this process, the company responds to RFPs (requests for proposals) from commercial property developers, and tries to win construction contracts by bidding for them. If it wins, the company must deliver what it promised, in the form of actual construction work. If the client (i.e., the developer) is satisfied with the company's work, it pays them after the work is complete. Roughly speaking, one might identify the following sub-processes as comprising the overall process -- RFP Publishing Proposal Submission Proposal Evaluation Contract Development Construction Work Delivery Work Evaluation Payment Execution Some of the above sub-processes occur at the client's end, some at our real estate company's end, and at least one of these sub-processes is conducted jointly. Can you identify which ones fall under each category? More importantly, discuss how the various sub-processes comprise a unified, integrated process, by means of information linkages among them. Think in terms of the information inputs and outputs of each sub-process. Whenever an information output of any particular sub-process serves as an information input into a different sub-process, that would be an example of an information linkage between those two sub-processes. Identify at least two such information linkages, between any pairs of sub-processes.

Explanation / Answer

The process involved in the planning and inplementation of the construction projects are:

Initiation

Panning

Execution

Monitoring and controlling

Closing

The subprocesses given can be related to the main processes in the following way:

RFP Publishing can be related to initiation process

Proposal Submission can be related to initiation process

Proposal Evaluation is an initiation process at client's end.

Contract Development can be related to planning on both parties end

Construction Work cab be related to execution prtocess

Delivery Work Evaluation can be related to the monitoring and controllong process

Payment Execution can be related to the closing process.

The RFP publishing and project submission can be identified as interrelated sub processes.