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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Does BPM Build Shareholder Value?
- This article highlights that Business Performance Management BPM-enabled companies have a better chance of spotting a potential earnings shortfall while it's still on the horizon, and that forward visibility gives them time to correct the deficiency or at least dilute negative results before the end of the reporting period. But...
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Mastering Business Process Management
- Although implementing Business Process Management can deliver immediate value, BPM technology alone is not enough. Implementing BPM technology will not make an enterprise "process competent" any more than the act of buying a car means a person knows how to drive. Experience with prior technology acquisitions, such as ERP, shows...
- White papers 2004-02-09
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