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Help Desk Can Provide Help for Process Improvements
Help desks typically fail to provide information that would lead to improvement opportunities for both the IT function and their client users within the business. Read the full article. May 5, 2008
QualiWare and Techlogix Announce Strategic Partnership
QualiWare and Techlogix Announce Strategic Partnership Read the full article. May 1, 2008
Preventing Conflicts Through Stakeholder Management
An up-front analysis of who the stakeholders are and how and when to involve them in the project can prevent potential problems. Read the full article. April 28, 2008
Opening the Door for Process Standardization in Europe
Processes which deliver value to customers across a wide geographic area in the United States are considerably less complex than the processes needed by companies doing business across Europe. Read the full article. April 21, 2008
Practical BPM: BPM System Organization
An organization chart allows a company to graphically define its organizational structure. This includes specifying the departmental structures, job functions, users who perform the job functions and the definition of groups within the organization. Read the full article. April 14, 2008
iGrafx BPR Keeps Data Flowing at Sloan Valve
Incumbency does not help a business deal with ever-advancing technologies, regulatory turmoil, shifting customer demands and the loss of high quality talent. Without the ability to meet these challenges, even perennially successful companies stumble. Read the full article. April 7, 2008
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. Read the full article. March 31, 2008
Companies Embrace Promise of BPM to Drive Innovation
Companies Embrace Promise of BPM to Drive Innovation Read the full article. March 27, 2008
BPM Technical Lead #08-045
Company: Project Performance Corporation Location: Pittsburgh, PA Read the full article. March 25, 2008
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. Read the full article. March 24, 2008
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. Read the full article. March 17, 2008
Practical BPM: Administrator Governs Business Processes
The BPM administrator is an application used to manage and administer a BPM server. It is optimized for speed and does not have (or has only a limited) user interface. Read the full article. March 10, 2008
Looking Beyond Cost Savings in Outsourcing
Many companies will share their own anecdotes about how, when they added up the costs of travel, coordination, delays and changes, the promised cost savings in outsourcing were much smaller than originally expected. Read the full article. March 3, 2008
BPM Implementation - Necessary and Overlooked
Whether the improvement strategy focuses on BPM, BPMS, Six Sigma or a combination thereof, the key aspect companies find most challenging is implementation. Read the full article. February 25, 2008
Process Improvement and Technology: The Virtuous Cycle
By continually focusing on enhancing the business rather than simply maintaining it, IT functions will be forced to improve themselves by first adopting a more rigorous focus on the customer. Read the full article. February 18, 2008
Practical BPM: Establish a BPM Architecture
A BPM sever needs memory and understanding of the hierarchy that is provided by organizational information. It also needs to be aware of what is happening in the organization, from inputs that a BPM server receives from humans and its overall architecture. Read the full article. February 11, 2008
A Framework for Change Management
The ultimate goal of any change initiative is to ensure everyone in the organization is ready, willing and able to appropriately perform their role in the new environment. Read the full article. February 4, 2008
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. Read the full article. January 28, 2008
Change Management for Shared Services and BPO
The ultimate goal of any change initiative is to ensure everyone in the organization is ready, willing and able to appropriately perform their role in the new environment. Read the full article. January 21, 2008
Global 360 Announces World-class Partner Program
Global 360 Announces World-class Partner Program Read the full article. January 21, 2008
New Management Book Has Roadmap To Control An Entire Enterprise And Predict Bottom Line Results
New Management Book Has Roadmap To Control An Entire Enterprise And Predict Bottom Line Results Read the full article. January 17, 2008
Practical BPM: Effective Use of a BPM Server
A BPM server is at the heart of a BPM system. It is a "black box" whose purpose is to control the execution of business processes and ensure that process incidents continue to move towards completion. Read the full article. January 14, 2008
Active Business Involvement - Recipe for BPM Success
Unlike typical IT projects, BPM projects need a higher level of active participation from the business team in order to successfully realize the project goals, mainly due to the very nature of activities involved in BPM projects. Read the full article. January 7, 2008
