Business Process Redesign
Assignment 1: Organizations – Business Process Redesign at the Small Business Administration.
In a November 30, 2001 report to congressional requesters, the General Accounting Office (GAO) outlined the need for a thorough evaluation of the potential use of the software before developing and contracting for the loan monitoring system, the SBA needed. The SBA agreed to do so (see http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02188.pdf).
In July 2004, Inc.com reported that … monitoring system that can help it oversee a portfolio of $45 billion in loans. Now it needs to lay out exactly how it is going to use it, says Senator Olympia Snowe, chair of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. In 2003, the Small Business Administration (SBA) awarded a contract to Dun & Bradstreet to provide the agency with a loan monitoring service to help it assess and manage risk associated with its borrowers and lenders. The GAO reviewed the service, at Senator Snowe’s request, and reported that the service was on par with those used by private sector lenders, but that the SBA did not have policies in place to use it to fulfill the agency’s needs. Snowe pushed the SBA to develop those policies.
SBA’s new Disaster Credit Management System (DCMS) was launched in November 2004 and faced its first critical test in the fall of 2005, when the nation was hit with some major hurricanes in 2005, including Katrina, the costliest hurricane with an estimated cost of $35 billion. SBA was (and still is) swamped with loan applications as is the Small Business Administration Disaster Credit Management System Support.
In July 2006, GAO issued a report evaluating the following:
Factors affecting SBA’s ability to provide timely disaster assistance
Actions SBA took after the disasters to improve its response to disaster victims (see Report GAO-06-860 at http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06860.pdf)
Use the above links, the material in the textbook, Argosy University online databases, and the Web to address the following questions:
What was wrong with the existing loan management system and why did SBA decide to replace it in 2004?
In what other ways could the agency use information systems to improve the process of loan application, approval, and maintenance?
Go to the SRA, Inc. Web site (http://www.sra.com/) and identify the features of the company’s software used by SBA (http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=131092&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=616444&highlight=)What other features should SBA think of using?
Your response should be a 2–3 page Microsoft Word document, double spaced, and in 12 point Times New Roman or New Courier font. All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources. Be sure to cite the references you used.
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The problem that existed in the loan management system leading to its replacement was due to the system was outdated and could not keep up with the demand that existed. This was due to the system was simply manual meaning that all the process carried out were at a very slow rate. All the applications that were sent by the General Accounting Office GAO could not be met at a timely fashion………………………………..
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