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- The Evolution of Business Process Management as a Professional Discipline
- The evolution of Business Process Management BPM as a customer-centric and process centric approach to improving business results has entered its third wave over the last thirty five years in the form of Business Process Management BPM. Yet, there is much more work to be done before BPM is broadly...
- White papers 2005-06-01
- The Third Wave: Mastering Business Process Management
- When an organization adopts a new tool, a common assumption is that training is a binary proposition, i.e., that people are either trained, or they are not. Experience indicates that this assumption is flawed. This article is based on a seven-stage model of expertise that describes what people actually go...
- White papers 2005-05-01
- Business Process Management: A Rigorous Approach
- The paper considers the growing technology labeled as business process management systems as a challenge. Old information products are being rebadged as process products. Old methods for building information systems are being rebadged as methods for building process support systems. It all sounds terribly familiar. Product developers see a new...
- White papers 2005-05-01
- BPM: A Global View
- The paper outlines that the confluence of industry-specific requirements and country-specific requirements, when added to the myriad other requirements of BPM solutions, would make the software extremely complex. Perhaps it was partly this logic that shepherded early vendors to focus on specific vertical applications in specific countries and regions. The...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- Leveraging Business Process Management and Six Sigma in Process Improvement Initiatives
- One of the most effective and efficient ways to enhance the value of a Six Sigma initiative is to use software to extend the principles of Six Sigma throughout the organization across people, processes, and technology. Focused on defining, measuring, analyzing, improving, and controlling business processes, BPM software targets the...
- White papers 2004-10-01
- The Process of Working with People: Person-to-Person Business Process Management
- The paper reveals that the system-to-system (S2S) business process management BPM market has seen a great deal of successful activity in the past year, especially among the integration centric BPM vendors. These providers are strong at managing the technology platform centric portion of the business process and have pushed the...
- White papers 2004-09-01
- How BPM Impacts Consulting Services
- Using a business process management system, or BPMS, a consulting firm could download a digital library of best practices into a customer's BPM execution tool of choice. Using best practices as a straw model, the consulting firm could quickly customize the process to fit the customer's unique situation, run simulations...
- White papers 2004-04-01
- Managing BPM: By Any Other Name
- This article explains the different stages and elements of Business Process Management. It warns against getting confused with technologies and software. It also warns against getting confused with specialized process languages. It advices to stick to real "how work gets done issues", in order to be successful and also to...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- BPMN and Business Process Management: An Introduction to the New Business Process Modeling Standard
- This article introduces and discusse in detail BPMN, which stands for Business Process Modeling Notation. It is the new standard for modeling business processes and web service processes, as put forth by the Business Process Management Initiative. BPMN is a core enabler of a new initiative in the Enterprise Architecture...
- White papers 2004-03-01
- Managing BPM: It Depends
- The promise of Business Process Management, like other management techniques, is the promise of a kind of business utopia where the business is growing, reducing costs, and simultaneously improving performance, all in a wonderfully self-optimizing system. Business people, however, are frequently rational, and to a rational business person, this utopian...
- White papers 2004-01-01
- Workflow Is Just a Pi Process
- There is much talk today about a business process management BPM revolution. The revolutionary part is about a new category of software known as the business process management system BPMS. The paper explores the foundations of the workflow paradigm, and describe the paradigm shift in technology that is needed to...
- White papers 2004-01-01
- Ontology-Based Business Process Management: The Vision Statement
- This white paper outlines the vision of third generation ontology-based business process management and explains why this approach helps to shrink time-to-market cycles of business processes, increase productivity and reduce costs. Now, more than ever, there is a growing awareness that traditional roles need to be reconsidered. In the first...
- White papers 2003-11-01
- The Association of Business Process Management Professionals
- There is a widespread agreement that there has been a major revival of interest in Business process issues in the last two to three years. There is several different business processes change initiative that is receiving attention. This article introduces The Association of Business Process Management Professionals which is a...
- White papers 2003-11-18
- BPM and MDA: Competitors, Alternatives or Complementary
- Although MDA and BPM are both architectures for enterprise software systems the comparison stops there. MDA is designed to enable the computer-assisted generation of applications and components, i.e. software. By contrast, the purpose of BPM is to avoid writing, or generating, more software, its central thesis being to remove "process"...
- White papers 2003-07-01
- BPM and MDA: The Rise of Model-Driven Enterprise Systems
- Business Process Management BPM and the Model Driven Architecture MDA, while not identical, have a number of characteristics in common. However, the industry has yet to form a consensus regarding the relationship between BPM and MDA. Some BPM practitioners believe that MDA is not relevant to BPM and vice versa....
- White papers 2003-06-01
- BPM's Third Wave
- The third wave of BPM enables companies and workers to create and optimize the new business processes on the fly. Change is the primary design goal. Through agile business processes, value chains can be monitored and continuously improved. The third wave is not business-process reengineering, enterprise application integration, workflow management,...
- White papers 2003-04-18
- The Third Wave: BPM 2005 - A Slight of Hand Enroute to the BPMS
- A BPM server federates the preexisting technologies of workflow, EAI and business rules into the existing technology stack. While a BPM server can be used to automate business processes BPA, the BPMS provides the capability to manage business processes BPM, that is, put them under lifecycle management to drive ongoing...
- White papers 2005-01-01
- The Third Wave: Process Management Maturity Models
- Much of the work on process maturity takes inspiration from the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model (SEI CMM.). CMM was developed for software engineering disciplines before the advent of BPM systems. Frameworks based on CMM concepts can incorrectly conflate the maturity of business processes with the maturity with which...
- White papers 2004-07-01
- A Postcard From Europe: The Real Motivation Behind BPM
- To simply talk of improving quality, managing process thinking, changing organizations, or automating existing processes is to miss the real motivation behind Business Process Management BPM. This article discusses why BPM is not truly embedded in the management thinking and the boardrooms. It suggests that for colleagues in the boardroom...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- The OMG's Model Driven Architecture and BPM
- The Object Management Group, an organization usually associated with software standards has recently begun to promote a new software development methodology, the Model Driven Architecture. In conjunction with MDA, the OMG has started to move aggressively to create standards for business process modeling and business rules. These new standards will...
- White papers 2004-05-01
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