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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
- Is There a Method to the BPM Madness? A Review of Two Books Describing a New Foundation for Business Process Management
- This paper suggests how analysts can use role activity diagrams. Most conceptualization and development methods are ad hoc, proprietary, or based on information systems IT methods - It's been a kind of BPM methods madness. The paper looks out on the horizon of strategic and complex, "enterprise business process management,"...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- People and Process V Technology?
- In typical technology fashion everybody jumped on the Business Process Management BPM bandwagon and the result is that the BPM message has become confused. This paper finds out and illustrates that the real winners will be those that go beyond the very broad definition of BPM into a new Platform...
- White papers 2004-07-21
- Business Process Management ("BPM") Rationale and Evolution to the Process Application Platform
- The challenge to acceptance of Business Process Management BPM approach is often the basics of understanding either the business issue or the realization of the power in "process thinking". However one of the benefits of a bandwagon is it starts an educational process. Those that have been in business more...
- White papers 2004-05-06
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Managing BPM: Blink Analysis
- The paper reflects on how a professional, familiar with the common problem patterns that occur in a specific domain, can sometimes instantly recognize problems that someone less familiar with the domain patterns would uncover, only after extensive research and study. It depicts about numerous instances where professionals who have acquired...
- White papers 2005-11-01
- BPM in Europe: 17576
- This article reports on a Business Process Management BPM Congress held in Netherlands and makes some interesting observations on the vendors who attended it. Unfortunately, putting the company logo on a generic BPM presentation will not cut it, and is damaging to the BPM image. The paper advices that to...
- White papers 2005-11-01
- Managing BPM: Great Unsolved Problems
- One great unsolved business process problem is "Process discovery." The biggest stumbling block that many companies face as they seek to become more process-centric is the difficulty of discovering and defining their existing processes. Process discovery is tedious and expensive. Unfortunately, efficient process management is entirely predicated on defining a...
- White papers 2004-02-01
- Do Better Maths Lead to Better Business Processes?
- Why Business Process Management BPM and its predecessor, workflow management, are not simply an extension to the theory of pi-calculus and why pi-calculus is not the only answer to the BPM debate? This paper offers an analysis of what makes workflow systems work and suggests that neither workflow nor BPM...
- White papers 2004-02-01
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