Creating an Initiating Process Improvements space

If an Initiating Process Improvements business space is not available, you can create one.

An Initiating Process Improvements business space uses widgets that contain content from WebSphere® Process Server, WebSphere Business Monitor, and WebSphere Business Modeler Publishing Server. If a product is not installed, Business Space replaces its widgets with an image and a message.

If you are planning to use the Reports widget and the Dimensions widget in a Managing My Team's Tasks space, DB2® Alphablox must be installed. These widgets also require a monitoring model and context that contains the dimensions and measures that you want to see as a graph or chart in the Dimensions widget or as a report in the Reports widget. If you are planning to use the KPIs widget, the process server must have a monitor model containing a KPI model. Also, you must have the access rights necessary to access the monitoring model. Without the access rights, you will not be able to configure the widgets to show the information that you want.

To create the business space for the Initiating Process Improvements scenario:

  1. Log into Business Space and create a business space using the Initiating Process Improvements template. For information about how to create the business space, see Creating business spaces.
  2. On the KPIs page, configure the Diagrams widget to display the process that you are changing:
    1. From the widget action menu, select Configure.
    2. Select the monitoring model and context for the process.
    3. Click OK.
  3. Configure the KPIs widget to display information about the performance of the process:
    1. From the widget action menu, select Configure.
    2. In the KPIs tab, select the KPI that displays data related to the process change. For example, if the goal is to reduce the time it takes to run the process, display the running time of the process.
    3. In the Layout tab, select how you want to display the KPI.
    4. Click Apply and check the result of your configuration in the bottom part of the widget.
    5. Keep changing the configuration until the widget displays the information that you want to see in the way that you want to see it and then click OK.
  4. On the Analysis page, configure the Dimensions widget to display data visually in multiple dimensions. For example, you might configure the Dimensions widget to display the number of orders in one dimension and the average time it takes for an order to be processed in a different dimension.
  5. Configure the Reports widget to display a report that shows the problem or opportunity that the process change will be addressing. After the process has be changed, you can use the Reports widget and Dimensions to show whether the process change has met its goal.
  6. Unless there is a presentation or spreadsheet related to the project of improving the business process, go to Business Space Manager and the delete the Viewers page. See Deleting pages. If there is a presentation or spreadsheet or both, go to the Viewers page and configure the widgets by providing relative URLs to the files.
  7. If you want other people to see the space and the pages it contains, share the space and add the people as viewers or editors of the space. For more information, see Sharing business spaces.
For an example of how you might use the business space that you created, see the Initiating Process Improvements scenario.