The purpose of creating a ProcessView model is to gain an understanding about process performance and behavior. A model, once composed, can be used as a predictive tool; after all, it is less expensive and less disruptive to experiment with changes to a process model than it is to experiment with the real world process. Once a map has been created and analyzed, it can be easily manipulated to represent alternative scenarios. To determine the impact of proposed process changes, multiple alternative process scenarios may be created. To measure the difference between the current state or baseline performance and an alternative state scenario, the information in the A3 Report should be used.
The profile section of the A3 report provides pictures of the models chosen for analysis such that they may be visually compared.
The performance section of the A3 report provides a side-by-side comparison of the fundamental performance metrics for the two pages selected for analysis.
If improvement opportunity shapes exist on the pages being analyzed, the information captured within their attributes will be summarized in a table beneath the process performance metrics.
