Know More About Process Mapping Flow Chart And What They Help In
Flow Charts are a means to understand what are the different activities involved in a process and how they interact with each other to bring out desired results. Process mapping flow charts are visual representation of various activities involved in a process and how they are interconnected with each other and produce the outcomes.
A process is defined as a sequence of actions that take an input and interact with each other to produce an output. A process map identifies all these actions or steps and decisions and represents them in a diagrammatic form.
What Process map flow charts do?
To cut a long story short, a process map describes the flow of information, material or documents. It represents the various task or events of a process and pictorially describes how an input to a process gets transformed in to an output. A process map indicates the decision making condition in a process and also demonstrates the interdependence and inter-relationship between various process steps.
Why it is important to use Process Maps?
A process is responsible to take some input, process it and transform it in to an output or finished good. To bring any changes in the existing system, it is important to understand the processes truly and clearly. It is important to understand what activities takes place under a process and how they are inter-connected to produce desired results. It is estimated that the manufacturing companies waste 20% of their time in re-doing a work while the service organizations spent 40% of their time in this. All these confusions and wastage of time problem can be sorted out with the help of process map flow charts. A process map helps us to clearly define a process in the form of diagrammatic representations, identify the problems and give a chance to improve upon the process activities. A process mapping flow chart describes what is currently happening in a process and how efficiently the process works. They help us to gather information related to where the process works inefficiently and where does it require improvement. Thus all these advantages make the process maps a necessary thing. What are the types of Process Maps?
Basically there are two types of process mapsĀ- Process Flowcharts and Deployment Flowcharts. Process Flowcharts simply depict the sequence of activities and the decision making conditions in a process. They are useful to capture only the initial details of a process. Deployment Flowcharts on the other hand, depicts the interactions between departments or people and are also known as Swim Lane charts sometimes. The Process and Deployment type of process maps use various symbols to describe a particular stage or activity in a process. For example a rectangle represents a calculation or task of a process. Thus, process mapping flow charts are of great importance to various organizations to understand a process and make improvements in the existing process.
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