What Is Business Process Mapping?

Enterprise process mapping is a visual illustration, or framework, of all the inputs, outputs, actions, decisions, and roles that comprise a process. By mapping each step in a business process, owners and employees access a comprehensive overview of everything involved in a process from beginning to end.

They can identify the who, what, where, when, how, and the why behind what does and doesn’t work. The benefits of business process mapping (BPM) help companies understand how predictable processes should function by highlighting essential activities within each step.

BPM is a trusted methodology used to solve business challenges by understanding the flow of activities, people, information, and resources. A clear visual representation can help businesses optimize inefficient workflows. BPM is a trusted methodology used to solve business challenges by understanding the flow of activities, people, information, and resources. A clear visual representation can help businesses optimize inefficient workflows.

Why You Need a Business Process Mapping Consultant

STANDARDIZATION

Processes are consistent, optimal, and easy to replicate and scale.

TRAINING

Employees receive standard training and understand the high-level overview of their responsibilities.

PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS

With a properly mapped workflow, it’s easier to identify bottlenecks, redundancies, and other inefficiencies.

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION

Visual representations allow employees to understand workflows and provide managers with the tools to monitor systems and progress.

INTERNAL AUDITS

Mapping out business processes ensures alignment with company goals and internal standards.

COMPLIANCE

Documenting and streamlining processes is vital in maintaining compliance with industry legislation.

How Great Lakes Advisory Can Help Improve Your Business Process

Underpinned by continual improvement and financial success, our mapping business process helps companies develop efficient systems that increase value. Great Lakes Advisory’s methodology works for any industry or organization. Accurate business process mapping services like ours allow stakeholders to assess cost-effectiveness and business efficiency, so they can make informed decisions that contribute toward productivity. Regardless of the industry, Great Lakes Advisory process mapping services involve the following steps:

Identify each job role and its unique processes

Gather workflow information on how processes interrelate
Develop the process map, providing complete documentation of organizational operations
Analyze the map to find inefficiencies, redundancies, and repetitions
Work with the business to improve and refine process steps
Manage the process and update when and where necessary

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We Know Your Industry

Great Lake Advisory works with a wide range of businesses in manufacturing and production, construction, and logistics & supply chain, home services, and service-based industries, including yours, to help improve process mapping.

  • Inc. 5000 Companies
  • Construction
  • Trainual, Playbook Builder, Whale, Lessonly, & Ninety.io Customers
  • Consumer Services
  • Entrepreneurs, Founders, & Business Owners
  • Production & Manufacturing
  • EOS Businesses
  • Technology
  • Logistics & Supply Chain
  • Marketing & Advertising
  • Home Services & Trades

Why Entrust Process Mapping to Great Lakes Advisory?

As a leading process mapping consultants, we increase small and medium-sized businesses’ competencies and improve organizational health.

Our experts develop clear BPMs offering a more dynamic and agile approach that establishes processes in the context of the entire organization, which supports seamless process lifecycles and continuous improvements.

MEASURABILITY

All processes can be measured and compared to benchmarked results.

TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION

We embed processes within the training of your learning management system for easy access, standardized training, and reporting.

EMPLOYEE SATISFACTION

BPM eliminates repetitive tasks, optimizing employees’ workflow.

SUSTAINABILITY

Through careful design, business processes are continually improved to adapt to changing work environments.

IDENTIFY AND MITIGATE RISK

Sharing visibility and educating employees of high-risk areas and controls promotes proactive decision-making.

CONSISTENCY

Identical problems are resolved in the same way, regardless of staff or management changes.

COMPLIANCE

A BPM integrates compliance into the process life cycle, making organization processes transparent and visible, improving accountability.

Client Reviews

George Grunberger, MD

Chairman of Grunberger
Diabetes Institute

Wow! This is amazing! This is exactly what we need for our upcoming hiring plans. My wife, who owns a dental practice, was jealous after seeing everything you documented for us. Thank you! We loved working with Great Lakes Advisory!”

Byron Schramm

CEO & President of Midtown
Chimney Sweeps

Great Lakes Advisory was fast, responsive,and helpful. He was able to travel to Denver,meet the team and immediately start doing vieo caputure of our process. They delivered the materials on time and with no trouble.Really appreicate it!”

Jennifer Annand

Manager, Marketing
Communication of Bendcare

Great Lakes Advisory went above and beyond to help our team meet a very important deadline for a large company-wide project.He was responsive and reliable and produced 5-star work in an extremely and organized manner. We HIGHLY recommend Great Lakes Advisory their consulting work!”

Elliot Granstrom

President of
Granstrom Masonry

Great Lakes Advisory was awesome to work with! It is such a relief to have all our critical workflows documented in a simple, easy-to-use format.

Adam DeGroot

President of
DeGroot Logistics

highly recommend Great Lake Advisory to anyone looking to develop better tools to scale their SMB! We initially were seeking out a firm that had expertise in Trainual that could help us develop better training and onboarding tools for new reps.What we left our first engagement with was a new framework and tools for business planning I expect us to build upon for years to come. I’d describe working with Chris and his team as frictionless and extremely productive for our team!

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