OREANDA-NEWS. The 8th Annual “Working Process 2007” International Conference was held in Moscow.  IDS Scheer organized the conference. “Working Process 2007” is a major event for business process management specialists, which gathers at one venue the leading home and foreign experts, representatives of top companies from different industries. 

The main speaker at the conference was James Chumpy, a guru in process management, one of the authors of the world bestseller “Corporation Reengineering. Revolutionary Manifesto in Business”. James Chumpy was the first to systematically define and present notions and methods on business process strategy and management (Business Process Management, BPM) and prove the necessity of process management organization.

Great attention was paid to the speech of Dmitry Aleshin, Ph.D, the General Director, Chief Executive of the Process and Project Management Center of JSC “IDGC of the Center and North Caucasus”. He spoke of the practices of introducing a business process efficiency controlling system, based on the ARIS Process Performance Manager (PPM), which refers to the innovation products of the new generation of Business systems at JSC “IDGC of the Center and North Caucasus”.

“The power grid business, being one of the most important for the country, often becomes the sphere for the introduction of different management systems, helping to increase its reliability and efficiency, reduce organizational and other expenses, increase customer satisfaction,” noted Dmitry Aleshin, “The company’s mission is to use advanced ideas and practices in power grid complex management, thus providing for the quality of life of man, his family and society. Using innovations we make our services superior-quality and available”.

Presently, JSC “IDGC of the Center and North Caucasus” is implementing a set of projects and programs, including the ARIS PPM tools introduction project for controlling and effective business process management. The main objective of the project is the establishment of the new management system - operational company management system.

“The reasons for drawing up the project were the introduction of the integrated quality management system at JSC “IDGC of the Center and North Caucasus”. And, particularly, the realization of the principle of the process approach to management and meeting the requirements of the ISO 9001 International Standard”, said Dmitry Aleshin. The contractor of the project is the JSC “Fainomica” consulting company, the co-organizer and adviser - JSC “IDS Scheer Russia and CIS”, IDS Scheer AG, JSC “CorsSys” offered technical assistance.

The following stages of the project have been completed: preliminary diagnostics, setting and tooling, adjusting, testing and operation testing. They included modelling processes, information sources testing, establishment of the controlling concept, software installation, adjusting the user interface, system testing, etc. Currently, prepartion for the industrial launching is under way.