Process Mining Caf‪é‬ Fluxicon

Finding your way to your business case as a process miner is a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem: You first have to do the analysis to determine the improvement potential. Rudi and Anne recommend keeping it simple, and Miguel shares how they increased revenue by 6 million Pesos (350,000 USD) without hiring additional people.

Andrea and Daniel discover process flows for the bus lines in Montevideo using open data from the city. They then export the XML process maps from Disco to display the discovered processes in the spatial city map. We discuss their project and Andrea and Daniel give you all the information that you need to reproduce their steps.

There is a lot of variability in Human Resources (HR) processes. This is only natural as people are different! And there is different legislation in different countries, different types of benefits, etc. We show two approaches for dealing with this complexity: One bottom-up approach and one top-down approach using the APQC standard process framework.

Hugo walks us through the analysis of the complaints process at the Dutch health insurance provider VGZ. As the data analyst, Hugo could use process mining to bring a fact-based view of the process to the subject matter experts. But he also needed to protect them from jumping to conclusions too early when the data was not good enough yet.

In Activity-Based Costing, indirect costs such as salaries and utilities are tied back to products and services. If you combine Activity-Based Costing with with process mining, then you can allocate costs to activities in your processes and evaluate “buckets of cases” according to their costs for the organization. Willem and Anne show how this works based on a concrete example.

What do you do if you want to do process mining but you don’t have any data? Tobias found an elegant solution: He created a system that allows employees to collect data about process executions in a lightweight and system-independent way. One advantage is that this internal system has privacy considerations built-in.