White Papers

Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Compliance: A Guiding Framework using iGrafx SOX Accelerator

This paper will help you get a better understanding of how iGrafx applications can help managers, auditors and independent advisors identify, document, and assess controls to ensure SOX compliance. Learn how the iGrafx SOX Accelerator can be used for documenting financial accounts, mitigating risk, aligning strategies, goals and requirements for the control model, and creating project plans for testing and measuring the effectiveness of the controls.
Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Compliance [3.1Mb]

ISO Certification - Obligations and Opportunities

In a tough competitive environment, quality products and services are crucial in order to gain and maintain satisfied customers. Through their quality improvement initiatives, the European and US automotive industry is in search of suitable tools to document and manage process optimization efforts. This white paper identifies the main principles of ISO/TS 16949:2002 and the tools which can be used to create the corresponding basic structures for process excellence.
ISO Certification - Obligations and Opportunities [3.1Mb]

Unlocking the Potential of Business Process Management

While Business Process Management (BPM) solutions are a promising new breed of enterprise software for organizations focused on process improvement, they are not the complete answer. This paper explores the pitfalls in the BPM highway and describes an approach that enterprises can take to realize the full potential of BPM.
Unlocking the Potential of Business Process Management [243Kb]

Process Modeling, Simulation, and TRIZ

The application of TRIZ necessitates the analysis and understanding of a process. This Whitepaper uses a Homeland Security Simulation to demonstrate that process modeling and simulation supports TRIZ. It shows that the effectiveness of TRIZ analysis on a process increases as the understanding of the process increases.
Process Modeling, Simulation, and TRIZ [243Kb]

Reducing Costs and Improving Service Using Quality Management Tools

This paper describes a fundamental tried and tested approach for instituting quality into everyday processes, and it introduces a set of quality and process management tools that help facilitate the implementation of a quality management program. It provides an introductory framework for quality improvement initiatives to address cost, performance, and quality control issues that all Telecommunications Service Providers face today. Furthermore, this paper describes results that can be expected through the implementation of process-specific tools for business analysis.
Reducing Costs and Improving Service Using Quality Management Tools [590Kb]

A Process Approach to Six Sigma

The purpose of this white paper is to introduce you to what we have learned about process management and the key steps required to apply it successfully. We demonstrate how this process approach can be applied within DMAIC, the five phases generally associated with the Six Sigma methodology. Finally, we identify process management solutions from iGrafx® that provide clear benefits to each of these phases.
A Process Approach to Six Sigma [2.2Mb]

An integrated approach to automotive process management

Never before has process management been more critical in the automotive industry. Compelled by global competitive pressures, automotive seek ways to achieve cost and time efficiencies, and propel customer satisfaction to new heights. As they continue to transfer major design responsibilities to Tier One suppliers, they seek reliable production systems that bring together all functions along the supply chain. Learn more about an integrated process approach in the automotive industry in this White Paper.
An integrated approach to automotive process management [652Kb]