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:
- 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.
- On the KPIs page, configure the Diagrams widget
to display the process that you are changing:
- From the widget action menu, select Configure.
- Select the monitoring model and context for the process.
- Click OK.
- Configure the KPIs widget
to display information about the performance of the process:
- From the widget action menu, select Configure.
- 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.
- In the Layout tab, select how you want to display the
KPI.
- Click Apply and check the result
of your configuration in the bottom part of the widget.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.