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- The Fusion of Process and Knowledge Management
- The history of Information Technology is laced with the search for the "silver bullet" that will connect the IT function closely to key business activities, minimize the cost of providing IT services, speed the development of new business applications and data bases, and then go on to solve global warming....
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Business Rules: What Kinds of Business Rules Are There?
- A business rule that an organization seeks to impose on another business may be the subject of a business policy of the other business but is not itself a business rule of the other business. Businesses commonly have business policies and business rules that relate to their compliance with laws...
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Improving Performance: Data That Drives Process Performance Design & Improvement
- This article elaborates on a general model of a Human Asset Management System and its associated Environmental Asset Management System, and explains how basic principles can help managers be more effective in dealing with employee performance. This system takes the human enablers that are deemed to be "required" in the...
- 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 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
- The Discipline of Business Modeling
- Since the inception of modern commerce, we have continuously endeavored to understand and improve the way businesses operated. Originally, these efforts included strategic, tactical and operational planning, informal process improvement efforts and even the invention of accounting. The paper outlines about the generation of a comprehensive business modeling approach that...
- White papers 2005-07-01
- BPM Capability and Credibility: A Process Management Culture Requires Both Capability and Credibility
- Creating a process management culture is a difficult and daunting task. This article provides a roadmap and makes some suggestions regarding how to achieve it in the organization. It depicts that there is something deep down in all persons that responds positively to the essential Business Process Management BPM message...
- White papers 2005-07-01
- A Closer Look at Frameworks and Reference Models
- The article describes how companies are using Business Process Frameworks to simplify the development and modification of major business processes. BPTrends has frequently referred to this approach as 'Second Generation Business Process Redesign'. For most commentators, the best example of the approach is the Supply Chain Council's SCOR (Supply Chain...
- White papers 2005-07-01
- BPM in Europe: Business Processes, Business Rules, and the Devastating Virus Attack
- The paper briefly outlines that a company focused on the business process management approach has clearly defined business process that describe how goods flow from supplier to customer in response to customer orders. This process has input and output definitions and may be supported by workflow applications or other software...
- White papers 2005-07-01
- Toward a Business Process Platform
- The steady rise in the abstraction level of technical software platforms enabled a similar rise in the abstraction level of programming languages and model-driven development tools. Business process platforms are a new type of platform at an even higher level of abstraction, offering business functionality that sits on top of...
- White papers 2005-07-01
- The Evolution of the 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
- Modeling Human Interactions: Part 2
- Human Interaction Management HIM is a radical new business theory describing how we really work, and how we can be helped to work better. This paper introduces a key technique in HIM - an enhanced version of the long-established graphical notation known as Role Activity Diagramming RAD. The paper shows...
- White papers 2005-07-01
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- ERP and BP Modeling: Strange Bedfellows No More
- Historically, Business Process Modeling and Enterprise Resource Planning ERP have been strange bedfellows. The ERP vendors have impressive marketing machines and they have succeeded in convincing many companies that they don't need to do process analysis before they select a process design. This article basically discusses how the ERP automated...
- White papers 2003-07-01
- Service-Oriented Design (Part IV: Business Process Design)
- This report provides an introduction to BPEL basics, to WS-Coordination, and a step-by-step introduction to service-oriented business process design. It tackles the design of an orchestration layer by using the WS-BPEL language to create a business process definition. The orchestration service layer provides a powerful means by which contemporary service-oriented...
- White papers 2005-06-30
- The Mists of Six Sigma
- This article sorts through the various myths surrounding Six Sigma and provides an insightful look at the real origins of Six Sigma. Everyone interested in business processes seems to know that Six Sigma was invented at Motorola and that Motorola became the first winner of the Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award...
- White papers 2005-10-01
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