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Real Business Analyst

Process Improvement Analyst: BPMN & Lean Basics

Map how work really happens, find the waste, and design a better workflow

4.6(212 ratings) 780 learners

Taught by Prof. Nikhil Manikandan

  • Online
  • Beginner
  • English
  • 4 weeks, 4 hrs/week
  • Updated Oct 2026

What you'll learn

  • Map as-is processes in BPMN 2.0
  • Find waste and bottlenecks with Lean tools
  • Measure process performance with simple KPIs
  • Design and justify a to-be process

Tools you'll use

  • BPMN
  • draw.io
  • Excel

Course content

2 modules, 4 lessons, 1 hr 4 min total

Module 1 — Mapping processes2 lessons, 32 min
Module 2 — Lean improvement2 lessons, 32 min
  • Lean improvement: overviewReading, 12m
  • Lean improvement: worked exampleReading, 20m

Before you start

  • None

About this course

Learn to map processes in BPMN, measure them, spot bottlenecks with Lean thinking and propose improvements backed by numbers.

Your instructor

Prof. Nikhil Manikandan
Prof. Nikhil Manikandan

Faculty, Business Analytics

Prof. Nikhil Manikandan teaches business analytics, operations management and the future of work. His classes focus on process thinking and on how analysts can use data and AI to improve how organisations run.

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