Business Process Improvement
Community of Practice


The Business Process Improvement Office develops and implements strategies for shifting resources to high-value activities. It develops and implements reforms to eliminate unnecessary or obsolete compliance requirements and reduces the cost of mission-support operations.

Army Contract Efficiency Course (ACE)

 

The Army Contracting Efficiencies (ACE) Course is designed to equip a cadre of Army soldiers and civilians with the skills to increase efficiency of the requirements-to-procurement process. The course will empower participants with the approaches and mindsets to drive efficiencies across the Army, to improve the timeliness and efficacy of requirements, and to ensure best practices are applied across the acquisition process.

The course is an immersive, 10-day, in-person “Boot Camp” followed by a ~12- week Capstone project.

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Lean Six Sigma (LSS)


Lean Six Sigma is a team-focused managerial approach that seeks to improve performance by eliminating waste and defects. It combines Six Sigma methods and tools and the lean manufacturing/lean enterprise philosophy, striving to eliminate waste of physical resources, time, effort and talent while assuring quality in production and organizational processes.

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Business Process Reengineering (BPR)


BPR is a logical approach for assessing process weaknesses, identifying capability gaps, and implementing innovation and optimization opportunities to achieve breakthrough improvements in operational performance. The approach goes beyond traditional process improvement by focusing on the holistic environment including the people, process, policy, technology, and information affecting the current and future states. BPR focuses on end-to-end business processes rather than functional silos, producing new process outcomes and maximizing the use of commercial best practices in enabling technology.

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Enterprise Business Management Course (EMBC)


The EBM course is designed to help students become familiar with principles of business management within the business mission area. The course enables students to maximize reform opportunities, develop the civilian workforce, and increase operational readiness IAW AR 5-1 Management of Army Business Operations.

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Continuous Process Improvement (CPI)


The CPI program trains and enables practitioners across the Army to improve the performance of Army business operations. The programmatic approach is a synthesis of scientific management systems thinking, systems dynamics, and Army performance improvement methodologies.