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Business Process Management
The beginning of each year is a time for reflecting on the year just past as well as being a time to cast our thoughts forward to what may transpire in the year ahead. This article discusses essential elements of why BPM is a paradigm shift in the making 5 Steps to Adopting a Business Process Approach to Management Smart managers make continuous business process improvement part of the culture in their organization. This article outlines five steps to bringing a business process management approach to your organization. 5 Trends in Business Process Management What lies ahead for business process management initiatives? How will BPM core practices be improved upon or redefined to cater to the changing needs of the business environment? Here are five trends to monitor. A Guide to Costing BI and BPM Implementations This article presents an overview of BPM and BI and the direct costs associated with its implementation. A Hierarchy of Processes Organizations with ERP or CRM systems sometimes think those applications should be able to address all processes within the company. Yet, if you evaluate the hierarchy of processes within your firm, you'll find that different processes have different requirements. An Introduction to BPM & BPMS This article reviews some informal uses of business process management (BPM), provides a more formal definition of the term that departs from some of the informal uses, and discusses some important BPM principles. Analysis: Five Reasons to Invest in Process Management This article discusses five reasons to invest in BPM. BPM for a Flattened World In his book, The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman identifies 10 forces that are flattening the world. Each is either enabled or expanded by business process management (BPM). This article explains how. BPM Hits The Big Time With buzzword status already in the bag, BPM looks to be an industry mainstay behind its strong software and practices. Although finding the right package to oversee a collection of processes can be a challenge, the rewards appear to be worth the effort. BPM in Action: In Organizations From sourcing and operations to sales and marketing, functional departments within both commercial businesses and governmental agencies are using BPM to automate and optimize their organizational processes. BPM in the Trenches This article explores the experiences of four companies and reveals how business process management bridges the gap between business and IT. BPM, Hype or reality? This article reviews what exactly BPM is and whether the technology is hype or reality. BPM: It's All About Efficiency Whether a firm wins customers away from competitors or attracts customers who previously were too expensive to acquire, success currently is defined by efficiency; organizations succeed not by product differentiation, but through process differentiation and process innovation. BPM: The Buzzword in Enterprise Systems This white paper examines different aspects of business process management (BPM), including BPM visibility, BPM systems, related standards, and benefits for organizations. BPM: The Next 'Must Have' App BPM is the natural choice to be the next "must have" software category. As with CRM and ERP, it takes advantage of enhancements to the computing infrastructure to address real business problems. BPM: The Next 'Must Have' App The next "must have" application for business in the 21st century is business process management (BPM). BPM solutions enable organizations to improve both the efficiency and the effectiveness of the processes that drive business operations. BPM—The Promises and the Practice, Part 1 This article discusses four main benefits that are derived from the successful implementation of BPM. Bruce Williams at webMethods Wants to Unite IT and Process Pros In this Q&A, webMethods' Bruce Williams explains why he thinks companies are struggling to integrate their enterprise IT initiatives with their process initiatives and what's going to begin to unite the differences between the communities. Business Process Management (BPM) - What is Business Process Management? The phrase business process management (BPM) refers to a set of activities an organization implements to optimize its processes. Business process management also encompasses software tools designed to assist firms in achieving process optimization. Business Process Management (BPM) Software Solutions Choosing a BPM 'Suite' This article explains the basics of a BPM software solution ("suite"), including the difference between a workflow solution and a business process management suite, what a suite does, and what the key elements of a suite are. This article also provides a practical approach to choosing a BPM suite that's right for you. Business Process Management Driving Business Performance This paper explores the relationship between Business Performance Management and Business Process Management. It describes the core role that business processes play in enabling the firm to achieve its key business objectives. Business Process Management Primer In order for many companies to reach the next level of productivity and efficiency, they need to streamline and augment their business processes—often through BPM or enterprise integration initiatives. Thus, we’re now seeing all the attention and focus on business process management as a result. Business Process Management: A Survey This paper provides an overview of Business Process Management (BPM) and zooms into the formal foundations of BPM on one hand and technology and emerging standards for BPM on the other hand. Combining Business Process Management and IT The future of BPM lies in IT with embedded Business Activity Monitoring. Experts predict that tomorrow's tools will provide fully digitized intelligent software solutions. Using IT with BAM gives organizations the cutting edge in today's marketplace, where only those companies that keep up with change will flourish. Five Steps To BPM Success Many aspects of an effective enterprise BPM deployment strategy are unrelated to the solution or even to the process being implemented. This article discusses five steps you should take as you move forward with your BPM strategy. Getting a Practical Education in Process Change "Business Process Change: A Guide for Business Managers and BPM and Six Sigma Professionals" focus is to provide a "pragmatic introduction" to the topic of business process change in three phases. Getting Started: The BPM Project Life Cycle This article discusses the BPM life cycle and the major aspects you should be aware of during a BPM deployment life cycle. How to Choose the Right Business Process Management Suite for Your Company More than 15 vendors in the business process management (BPM) marketplace offer BPM suites. With so many vendors offering so many options, how do enterprises choose a BPM suite that’s right for them? How To Win At BPM Processes can--and should--evolve with the dynamic needs of a company. Automating business processes with a shiny new business-process-management implementation does wonders for simplification and optimization. Implement Process Management: A Holistic Approach A better process management system enables the organization to perform a cleaner process with a reduced business risk, resulting in increased work capacity and improved productivity. Is All BPM Alike? Even when deployed in conjunction with a BRE, BPM is not all things to all organizations. It won’t replace CRM or ERP, for example, but it can add enormous value to these systems and others by linking them through fluid, people-based processes. Lean: Relentless Pursuit of Product Value and No Waste Lean, like other process improvement methodologies, is based on the big idea from the 1980s that a business is composed of a series of processes, a value stream, that delivers value to its customers. Making Business Process Management Work If you're looking for a book to hand off to the business people in your organization to help them understand why you keep jumping up and down about BPM, this volume by Andrew Spanyi can probably help. It's short, has big print, and is highly readable. Managing BPM: To O or Not to O This article discusses outsourcing and gives you a perspective that evolves from the SCOR framework, and then some more interesting perspectives about what seems to be evolving. Maximize Business Performance: BPM is Coming – and It's Not Just Hype Although true BPM will contribute to a revolution in how businesses can maximize their performance, BPM itself is evolutionary. It builds on previously accepted technologies with a focus on KPIs, scorecards and dashboards. Maximize Business Performance: Five BPM Mistakes to Avoid, Part 1 Working in any field over time, it is natural to build up a list of favorite mistakes to avoid. This article discusses some guidance from other people's visits to the school of hard knocks. Maximize Business Performance: Five BPM Mistakes to Avoid, Part 2 This article discusses how to avoid mistakes relating to how BPM systems leverage your existing data warehouse, who in the organization should be involved in your project and what role IT should play in the overall deployment. Moving the Sidewalks This CIO article explains how business process management not only makes processes work better, but also how it makes them more malleable too. Myths of BPM It's possible that some of our long-held beliefs about BPM are really what hold us back from getting started or achieving more. In this article Gartner Research Director Michael Melenovsky shares five myths many of us hold about BPM that we need to rethink. Optimising the Enterprise Using BPM Guan Tan explains some of the key business benefits of BPM. Efficient processes are the key to reduced cost, high productivity, and healthy bottom lines. Business Process Management (BPM) is a concept that enables efficient processes. Pain-Free BPM This article discusses 10 secrets to business process management success. Part I: A Modular Concept for Process Development Process development is affected by cost, schedule and quality. Each constraint impacts upon the others and is intertwined in process development and a company’s ability to prepare the best processes in the shortest time with the best-cost impact. Part II: A Modular Concept for Process Development A modular approach to process development allows an organization to look ahead in developing processes, decrease deployment time/development costs and increase process quality. And integrating Six Sigma enhances the effectiveness of the approach. Playing HARDBALL with BPM A Baseball Metaphor on the Fundamental Value of Business Process Management – and why organizations adopting the practice of BPM will dominant their markets. Power to the People This article responds to the following question: Is taking a process-centric view of integration projects simply a return to the doomed re-engineering thinking of the 1990s? Process Management for the Sales Team; No BPM Tools Needed This manufacturing company, which did international business, used an archaic document management system, which put it at a disadvantage in sales efforts. This business process improvement effort required no fancy BPM software suite, yet it succeeded wildly in helping the company grow. Putting BPM to Work in the Food & Beverage Industry This article lays out the trends and competitive pressure facing the food and beverage industry and explains how business process management (BPM) can be leveraged to rescue it. Quantify the Benefits of Business Process Management Use the following checklists as a guide to help build business process management project charters that are compelling to business leaders. It will help support and justify why the business should support BPM as an answer to business process issues. Streamlining Decision Engine Production Business process management is changing the speed at which business is conducted. Due to advancements in BPM, companies can process statistical scoring decisions quickly and efficiently. But BPM solutions have failed to address decision-making. Systems Thinking: The “Core” Core Competency For BPM The worlds of business and technology are growing more complex, and managing that complexity is the goal of systems thinking. Mastering systems thinking means overcoming the major obstacles to building the process-managed enterprise—for every end-to-end business process is a whole system. The Future of Business Process Management Explores BPM with a little history lesson and looks into the future of BPM. Two Classic BPM Books for Enterprise Managers "Business Process Management: The Third Wave" and "The Real-Time Enterprise: Competing on Time with the Revolutionary Business SEx Machine" are must-reads for anyone involved in managing enterprises. What is BPM -- And Why It Will Change Everything (Part I) This article discusses some of the high level components of BPM. What Is Business Process Management and How Does It Work? This interview with Appian co-founder Michael Beckley provides an explanation about what business process management (BPM) is and how it can transform your company. What Is Business Process Management and How Does It Work? This interview with Appian co-founder Michael Beckley provides an explanation about what business process management (BPM) is and how it can transform your company. Why BPM Will Change Everything – Getting Started (Part II) This part of the series explores some things to think about in getting started with BPM. 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