1- Consider the Graduate Student Admission ProCESS Clearly state the performance dimension of the process that you wish to improve and how you might measure it. Apply the heuristics from Appendix A in order to improve the process. You do not need to apply all heuristics. Apply those that are sensible and lead to improvements. You may apply the same heuristic multiple times in the process. Justify every redesign heuristic you use and describe where and you apply it to the process and how the process is changed because of it. For each change you propose, explains its impact in terms of the performance dimensions of the Devils Quadrangle Keep the following points in mind as you redesign the process: Does the redesign create or solve ethical problems, e.g. situations where the legal, moral, human rights of multiple stakeholders are affected or in conflict? Describe the situation and how you try to deal with it. The university wants to expand overseas. It has already leased a buildings in Accra and Dhaka, and has also partnered with a private educational corporation in Cairo to deliver some of its programs in these locations. Capture the resulting to-be model in BPMN

Consider the following process for the admission of international graduate students at a university. In order to apply for admission, students first fill in an online form. Online applications are recorded in an information system to which all staff members involved in the admissions process have access. After a student has submitted the online form, a PDF document is generated and the student is requested to download it, sign it, and send it by post together with the required documents, which include: certified copies of previous degree and academic transcripts, results of English language test, curriculum vitae, two reference letters. When these documents are received by the admissions office, an officer checks the completeness of the documents. If any document is missing, an email is sent to the student. The student has to send the missing documents by post. Assuming the application is complete, the admissions office sends the certified copies of the degrees to an academic recognition agency, which checks the degrees and gives an assessment of their validity and equivalence in terms of local education standards. This agency requires that all documents be sent to it by post, and that all documents be certified copies of the originals. The agency sends back its assessment to the university by post as well. Assuming the degree verification is successful, the English language test results are then checked online by an officer at the admissions office. If the validity of the English language test results cannot be verified, the application is rejected (such notifications of rejection are sent by email). Once all documents of a given student have been validated, the admissions office forwards these documents by internal mail to the corresponding academic committee responsible for deciding whether to offer admission or not. The committee makes its decision based on the academic degrees and transcripts, the CV, and the reference letters. The committee meets once every three months to examine all applications that are ready for academic assessment at the time of the meeting. At the end of the committee meeting, the chair of the committee notifies the admissions office of the selection outcomes. This notification includes a list of admitted and rejected candidates. A few days later, the admissions office notifies the outcome to each candidate via email. Additionally, successful candidates are sent a confirmation letter by post.