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		<title><![CDATA[Process Governance Best Practices: Building a BPM Center of Excellence]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=259440]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[As organizations begin to deploy enterprise-wide solutions for managing key business processes, they are encountering many obstacles and challenges associated with cross-departmental interaction and collaboration. Organizations are discovering that while intradepartmental business process initiatives typically execute with minimal issues, interdepartmental business process initiatives often become mired in cross-departmental politics, disputes,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Practical Considerations When Selecting a Notation for Business Modeling]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=259441]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A diverse arsenal of modeling instruments is necessary to capture and properly describe complex business needs of a modern enterprise. Accordingly, it is important to select a standard notation for business modeling efforts that provides analysts with a variety of modeling instruments. A persuasive case for using Business Process Modeling...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Effective Supply Chain Strategy: Take This Strategy Test to Check How Your Company Scores]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=259442]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Implementing Supply Chain Strategy is a lot like trying to solve a Rubik's Cube puzzle; the objective of the puzzle is to twist layers of multi colored squares in such a way that each of the six faces of the cube contains all the squares of one color. The author...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Future of BPM: The Introduction to a Series]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=259443]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[BPMN is generic enough to cater not only to BPM techniques for business automation, but also to more longstanding workflow techniques for the support of processes in which human input is required at key data entry and decision points. BPMN is not suitable, and cannot realistically be extended, to cover...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Stage-Gate and the Critical Success Factors for New Product Development]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=259444]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The need for product innovation has never been greater. Product lifecycles are shorter than ever, and pressure continues to mount for organic growth. Companies that fail to innovate face a grim future. The problem is that winning with new products is not so easy. Only one out of four development...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[BPM Process Patterns: Repeatable Design for BPM Process Models Processes]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=259435]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Rigorous and skillful business process modeling is a commonly overlooked but key aspect to successfully developing BPM solutions. Before BPM, processes sometimes served as specifications that IT sometimes used to develop software solutions. Business processes serve a much more critical role in BPM. Business analysts and developers new to BPM...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[BPM and SOA: A Strategic Alliance]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=259436]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[SOA can exist without BPM, and BPM has flourished without a firm understanding of SOA. The combination of SOA and BPM is more powerful than either is alone. SOA provides the ability to create process independence. SOA, loosely coupled with BPM, automatically creates services that can be reused in many...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Stakeholder Analysis: The Key to Balanced Performance Measures]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=259437]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Traditional business performance measures - such as return-on-assets or earnings per share - focus on the overall financial results achieved by a company in a given time period. While important, they give little insight into why particular results were achieved. By themselves, they provide little guidance for where or how...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Getting Past the First BPM Project: Developing a Repeatable BPM Delivery Capability]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=259439]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[As BPM takes off within the organization, the challenge becomes one of delivering on the promise across a broad front. This paper focuses on how to create an effective methodology and organizational capability to meet this challenge. It presents a wide variety of best practice tips and pitfalls to avoid,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[MDA Journal: Scaling the Business Process Platform Up - The Challenges]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=158224]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper discusses the emerging Business Process Platform. It considers exactly how such a platform would interface with services or components and considers some of the scaling problems such a platform would have to deal with. It mentions that the transition to business process platforms presents some challenges, and thus...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Managing BPM: Just Doing It]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=158225]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The strategies that are valuable have key features that lead us to select them, such as whether the deployment can be split into pieces, whether it must be done globally and quickly, and so on. Certain deployments that have low interaction and "Skin in the Game" should be consistently avoided...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Process Pragmatics: The Dawn of a New Era]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=158226]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The business world is witnessing the birth of new analytical activities that hold the potential for revolutionary opportunities. These opportunities include: designing processes that include tremendous numbers of versions and variations, creating incentive plans that calculate rewards based on actual rather than average or estimated contribution, and providing front-line workers...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How Boeing A&T Manages Business Processes]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=155132]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This white paper provides a detailed look at how Boeing A&T manages business processes. It describes how Boeing Airlift and Tanker Programs (A&T) changed itself from an organization in trouble to a world-class performer that has become one of the outstanding examples of the power of a comprehensive commitment to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Human Capital Management Planning]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=155133]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Human Capital Management helps organizations to develop their resource plans. It highlights the importance of strategically anticipating Human Capital changes through planning; it offers basic planning steps, issues to consider, and strategies. This paper consolidates the concepts and benefits of Human Capital management through a case study for a utilities...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Will BPM Deep Six Six-Sigma?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=155134]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Standardization or Harmonization? You Need Both]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=155135]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Enterprise Architecture in the Context of Organizational Strategy]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=155136]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Lots of organizations are working to develop enterprise architecture. Expanded Electronic Government (E-Gov) is one of the government-wide initiatives to provide significant productivity and performance gains across agencies through effective planning of IT investments. This insightful paper introduces McKinsey's 7-S framework for evaluating an agency's organizational effectiveness and describes how...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Managing BPM: Blink Analysis]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=155924]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Business Rules: Are System Requirements Business Rules?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=155925]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Forcing a conceptual separation of a business and an IT system will help clarify the discussion. A business and an IT system are, after all, different things. For example, consider a baseball video game system. The rules of baseball are just that, rules of Major League Baseball; they are not...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[BPM in Europe: 17576]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=155926]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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