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- Another Acronym: What Is BPM?
- Business management is home to more three-letter acronyms than any other profession, with the possible exception of aviation. And many of the most jargony abbreviations seem to be little more than a re-packaging of old ideas, or a slight variation of a proven concept. So what should you make of...
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
- A Broader Look at BPM
- The business environment is filled with documents. Whether in electronic form or on paper, documents are vital to the work. Surprisingly, business process management BPM discussions rarely touch on the role of documents in everyday processes - overlooking the potential benefits of improved document creation, security, and processing. In many...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- The Third Wave: BPM 2004
- Despite several books, numerous articles and coverage in the media the concept of Business Process Management BPM is not very clear yet. The power and promise of BPM is there, but it is a major undertaking at enterprise scale. This article gets right down to the basics, discusses and clarifies...
- White papers 2004-01-01
- The Emergence of Business Process Management
- The drivers for BPM are not technological but economic. The two dominant economic trends today are globalization and commoditization. Information about products and prices are available instantly and globally; trade barriers between nations and regions are being dismantled; niche markets are disappearing. The response of the business world is to...
- White papers 2002-01-01
- Workflow Is Just a Pi Process: A Breakthrough in the Representation and Execution of Business Processes Inspired by the Pi Calculus, and Enabled by New Business Process Management Systems (BPMS)
- A provocative work-in-process draft of this article was first published and distributed to various mailing lists, including OASIS BPEL TC, W3C WS-CHOR, BPMI-INFO, and the joint BPMI-WfMC forum. The aim was to entice input from several professional groups. The draft and its catchy title generated controversy among workflow experts in...
- White papers 2004-01-01
- BPM: A Global View - The Two Faces of Process Templates
- This article reports about the benefits of process templates. It considers both the benefits and the potential drawbacks in this thoughtful column. Process templates appear to make a lot of sense for the BPM industry. Instead of starting process development from scratch, customers can use pre-defined process templates supplied by...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Managing BPM: The MOBO Process Path
- Every time an organizational change occurs, many processes may split in two, or three; a centralized sales organization suddenly is split into three business unit sales teams. The problem is that with organizational change, process management is very rarely factored into the overall event. Where organizational design drivers process management,...
- White papers 2005-09-01
- BPM in Europe: One Customer's Experience
- This personal experience has demonstrated to me the value of presenting and discussing BPM from the consumer's point of view. So, present not only which models or methods have been used, or what has been the return-on-investment for the decision maker, but, also, what was the business issue to be...
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Managing BPM: The Process Crawl
- This article considers how the use of business process frameworks simplifies the task of capturing current process information in an organization. It discusses how using frameworks enormously simplifies the task of capturing current process information in an organization, and, using SCOR, it shows how a "capture" process uses frameworks in...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Application of a Holistic Model for Determining BPM Maturity
- This paper proposes a Business Process Management BPM Maturity model that provides a framework for the detailed evaluation of BPM capabilities and achievements within organizations. The design paradigms of this model and its multi-dimensional structure are discussed. The model has been applied in two case studies and a range of...
- White papers 2005-02-01
- A Marriage Made in Heaven: Combining Six Sigma With Process Management to Reach Unprecedented Levels of Business Performance
- There is a growing movement among leading companies to combine their various business process change efforts. This article describes how recent efforts to combine Six Sigma and BPM technologies have resulted in major advances in business performance. It illustrates how organizations in various industries combine BPM technologies and Six Sigma...
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Systems Thinking: The "Core" Core Competency for BPM
- This short but insightful article reminds of all of the importance of systems thinking to business process change. Ultimately processes are simply one element in the overall system that is called a company. Contemplating any company's transition to business process management, the implications for IT professionals are profound, for companies...
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Business Process Management Systems: Environmental Policy
- Business process innovation and improvement are now recognized as the paths to huge gains in productivity - something companies are desperately seeking in the current down-turned economy. The paper depicts that BPMS provides the mechanisms to stitch application components together to automate and share strategic and operational business processes, in...
- White papers 2002-05-01
- Learning to Become a Process-Managed Enterprise: Or Why Allstar Teams Are Clumsy
- The successful adoption of business process management BPM and its use as a source of competitive advantage requires individual, team, and organizational learning. After all, BPM isn't something a company can go out and buy - It's a way of doing business. How does a company learn this new way...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Value Proposition of a BPM Solution
- A significant amount of customers tend to look for the differential cost benefits primarily in the form of licensing costs that a Business Process Management BPM solution from different vendors has to offer. In this white paper, 3 components: operational cost savings, training rationalization, and enterprise standard setting have been...
- White papers 2004-12-27
- Understanding Profits Through BPM
- Revenue minus costs equals profit. The equation is concise, simple and misleading, as most everyone who's analyzed profitability in detail can attest. Most companies have a pretty good idea of how much they spend on raw materials for each widget they produce. But those that dig no deeper into profitability...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Standardization or Harmonization? You Need Both
- The paper focuses on standardization and harmonization in context to business process management. Standardization means creating uniform business processes across various divisions or locations. It depicts that through standardization; individual business units can share expenses, and will benefit from a company-wide Business Process Management BPM. In the context of Business...
- White papers 2005-11-01
- Will BPM Deep Six Six-Sigma?
- Some organizations see BPM and Six Sigma as alternative process methodologies and argue whether or not they need both. This article explores whether one might eliminate the other. It introduces the concept of process maturity metrics. The two types of analysis discussed in this article complement each other and allows...
- White papers 2005-11-01
- BPM That Does Something...
- This paper is written with a business perspective to give both the background as to why Business Process Management BPM may just be a change for the better and why some industry analysts in the sector are even calling it a revolution. The approach to IT cannot carry on as...
- White papers 2003-01-28
- "How Management of Processes Can Deliver Actionable Performance Management"
- It is clear that to deliver on performance improvement there is a need to bring people and their processes together in process-centric applications. Again the simplicity of this statement makes it obvious but of course it is not just the actions of people it is the rules under which they...
- White papers 2003-11-11
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