Flexible and dynamical enterprise flow

The enterprise flows within the organization are everywhere, and some are defined specifically and accurately, for example: the loaning works is the core works in the financial institution, therefore the related authorities have invested the considerable labor forces in it. So, inside the company, it is not allowed to fully comprehend all the details in the loaning works. On the other hand, in deed, there are many other works that have not been clearly defined or formed with the file. The whole flow is established simply due to clinging the rules in the industry, and the decisions are always made aiming at the current situation in the process of the execution. If the problem is solved successfully, every time encountering the similar situations, it will follow the treatment method at that time, forming the procedures recognized by the public. If being failed, other methods must be tried, until the appropriate plan is found. The treatment process is repeated and uncertain, almost proceeding following the mode of the evolutionism by Mr. Darwin. Usually the enterprise will follow the special demands in the individual flow to establish the elements, participating personnel, rules and systems for the setup of the task. In order to respond to various kinds of different situations within the organization, the flow will become more and more complicated in the evolution process.

For example: how the company will respond for the potential request for the quotation belongs to the "quotation flow". At this moment, the target of the flow is to provide the customer with the correct and competitive quotation as soon as possible. It sounds very simple, isn't it? But when this "simple flow" touches the following more profound problems, the details will be more complicated:

• Whether the quotations provided to the current customer and the potential customer by the company are different?
• If the customer has the special order requirement, how to deal with the quotation?
• Will the treatment flow for the order in a large amount be changed?
• Whether the estimated delivery schedule will affect the process of the flow?
• Whether the time spot (like the end of the year) for proposing the request for the evaluation will affect the process of the flow?
• Whether the competition pressure and the market situation that changes so fast will affect the progress of the flow?

If the flow is to be mastered and automatized, the operator in the enterprise and the IT commissioner must closely cooperate in team, and the enterprise operator owns the consultation of the flow, until the purposes of the flow and its working sequences are fulfilled, and makes the decisions and adjusts the flow, thus to comply with the demand. Once the flow has been automatized, the professional IT practicers has the basic technical structure on it, and understands why to manage the materials and fulfill the integration and system works.

Benefits of Adaptive Discovery

Adaptive Discovery can provide the management of the flow in the enterprise, the IT practicers and the organization users with many competitive advantages.

Benefits for the management of the flow in the enterprise

• The time needed for proposing the flow and the system design will be greatly reduced (therefore the enterprise management can fulfill other responsibilities)
• It will reduce the conflicts generated between the enterprise management and the IT department due to the problem for defining the demand. Afterwards, except for the necessary circumstances, it will not need to rack their brains to design the details.
• Since now, it does not need to forecast all the rules, paths and roles without the foundation, but follows the consultation in the reality to define various projects (only when it is necessary), thus to genuinely reflect the operation rules in the enterprise in recent days.
• The flow expert can quickly respond the changes of the situation, without the need for the IT technicians to work day and night.
• The enterprise can practically execute the workflow.

Benefits for the IT department:

• The responsibilities for the IT department to execute the management for the enterprise flow are transformed to: stressing the main feasible, structure-type projects that can exert the technologies transferred (like the material, the sheet, the integration and the operation, etc).
• The IT department does not need to try its best to find out all the possible rules and workflows in the enterprise flow. The responsibility for the establishment of the flow is returned to the enterprise management, who can apply their expertise in this aspect to control the rules by themselves.
• The IT department will no longer be seemed as the preset ¡°management¡± for the flow, and also does not need to be blamed due to any problems occurring outside the basic structure.
• The IT department actually masters the basic structure level for the management of one flow.

Benefits for the enterprise

• Exert the functions of the enterprise flow management, and the working execution is quicker and the cost will be greatly reduced.
• Reduce the frictions between the IT department and the operation department.
• The operation of the flow is more effective due to its arrangement, and the profit will be increased as well.
• Obtain the great competitiveness.