In today’s fast-paced business landscape, understanding your processes isn't just a luxury—it's a necessity. While traditional process mining tools reveal what’s happening within your operations, Prescriptive Process Mining takes it several steps further, offering smart, actionable recommendations backed by statistical data. Think of it as a digital subject matter expert that never sleeps.
What Is Prescriptive Process Mining?
Prescriptive Process Mining is a powerful capability embedded within IBM Process Mining, designed to not only analyze process performance but also recommend actions to improve outcomes. It applies intelligent algorithms to investigate the process mining projects you've already created and generates comprehensive reports to guide your next steps.
This approach is data-driven, dynamic, and laser-focused on continuous improvement. It doesn’t stop at identifying problems—it helps you fix them.
Why Prescriptive Process Mining?
Let’s break down what makes this capability so transformative:
🔍 Proactive Risk Management
Identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and compliance issues before they impact performance.
📊 Informed Decision-Making
Harness data-driven insights to make strategic decisions. No more guesswork—just facts.
🔄 Continuous Improvement
Support a feedback loop of monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing processes for long-term gains.
The Power of Digital SME
Prescriptive Process Mining acts like a digital subject matter expert by:
- Analyzing tables linked to event logs and providing meaningful insights.
- Comparing your process against KPI benchmarks.
- Conducting root cause analyses for any detected nonconformities.
- Recommending tailored actions to mitigate risks and improve performance.
- Estimating the potential impact of reducing deviating activities in your process.
All of this is compiled into an investigative report—your go-to guide for strategic improvement.
The Prescriptive Journey: Step by Step
To unlock the full value of Prescriptive Process Mining, follow these key steps:
- Access Prescriptive Process Mining within IBM Process Mining.
- Create an Investigative Report for the process in question.
- Configure the Report using available clues like KPIs and mapped data.
- Schedule Reports for continuous monitoring.
- Interpret the Report to understand patterns and anomalies.
- Check KPI Conformance and benchmark results.
- Analyze Root Causes for any deviations.
- Explore Recommended Actions tailored to your process.
- Assess the Benefits of implementing those recommendations.
- Focus the Investigation on areas that need the most attention.
Clues: The Backbone of Accuracy
The quality of insights in your investigative report depends on the clues available in the project. These include:
- Default and custom KPIs
- Reference models
- Mapped data tables
The more clues your process mining project has, the higher the accuracy of the generated insights. Think of clues as breadcrumbs that help the algorithm find the optimal path to improvement.
Final Thoughts
Prescriptive Process Mining is more than a buzzword—it’s a practical, intelligent, and indispensable tool for organizations striving to improve their operations. Whether you're trying to reduce delays, improve compliance, or optimize resource allocation, this capability provides strategic foresight backed by deep data analysis.
As businesses grow more complex, the need for automated and intelligent analysis grows stronger. IBM’s Prescriptive Process Mining answers this call—helping you not only see the "what" and "why" but also guiding you on the "what next."