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Spotlight on process management
Managing processes is a central issue in modern improvement theory. The writers of this article tries to explain why they believe that in order to manage processes effectively it is essential to create good process control and an effective information system. The 7M approach for classifying different causes for process...
Tags: Process Management, Cause, Institute Of Quality Assurance, Process Improvement, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Quality, Business Operations, Management, Software
White papers 2002-03-01
Process Management Pathways and Pitfalls: Part 1
Call it the Principle of Bumbling Bureaucracy — when left on their own, processes naturally turn inward to serve management and departmental needs rather than the organization's key customers and partners. Improve processes from the outside in. Draw a customer-partner chain to get very clear about just who the process...
Tags: Process, Process Management, Performance Management, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software
White papers 2003-01-01
Process Management Pathways and Pitfalls: Part 2
Process management is an invaluable part of disciplined management systems and using technology effectively. Reengineering and incremental process improvements can have such a profound impact on organizations that many managers focus almost exclusively on these powerful tools and techniques. But experience clearly shows that if process management isn't well integrated...
Tags: Process Management, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2003-01-01
Process Management
The third wave of business-process management promises to make companies more adept at cutting costs, managing change and seizing opportunities. The third wave of BPM will let companies and workers create new processes on the fly. Change is the primary design goal. Through agile business processes, value chains can be...
Tags: Business Process, Process Management, Business TechKnowledge, Operational Planning, EAI, Business Process Automation, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Middleware, Software, It Operations
White papers 2002-10-01
Process Management Improves The Horizontal Flow
Functionally managed organizations reduce organization performance levels while increasing cycle times and costs by fostering an "us-versus-them" approach to communications and fighting for organizational resources, leaving unmanaged gaps between departments which disrupt cross-functional work processes, making improvements or changes in one department which hurts the effectiveness of other departments in...
Tags: Process Management, Department, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Performance Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software
White papers 2003-01-01
Process Management in the Netspeed Era: Is This an Oxymoron?
Effective managers have always known to manage by process - the job of management is to define activities that are necessary, to organize those activities in a logical way, and to link corporate processes together synergistically. The whole NetSpeed versus process argument is founded on the maxims that the pace...
Tags: Process Management, Activity, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Management, Software
White papers 2002-05-23
Oracle Workflow - Oracle E-Business Suite Process Management
Oracle Workflow together with Oracle Workflow for Java (OW4J), Oracle's next generation Java 2 Enterprise Edition based business process management solution that enables enterprises to model, extend, configure, and automate business process flows. This white paper provides an overview of the process management architecture of the Oracle E-Business Suite and...
Tags: Business Process, Process Management, Oracle Corp., Oracle E-Business Suite, Workflow, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Software
White papers 2004-12-01
Process Innovations: Attending to Processes
The paper defines process management as an attempt by organizations to carve out attention from other aspects of organizational structure and function to focus on a new, but basically familiar, resource. A process-oriented organizational structure is only one of several possible ways to draw sustained attention to the goals and...
Tags: Innovation, Business Process, Process Management, Business Process Trends, Operational Planning, Organizational Structure, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Human Resources, Software
White papers 2004-03-01
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...
Tags: Business Process, Process Management, BPM, Capability Maturity Model, Business Process Trends, Capability Maturity Model (CMM), Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software
White papers 2004-07-01
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...
Tags: Business Process, Process Management, BPM, Business Process Trends, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Business Operations, It Operations, Software, Management
White papers 2005-07-01
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,...
Tags: Business Process, Process Management, BPM, Business Process Trends, Operational Planning, Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Sales, Software
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...
Tags: Process Management, Performance, BPM, CommerceQuest, Six Sigma, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Business Process Automation, Process Improvement, Operational Planning, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software
White papers 2005-09-01
The Convergence of Six Sigma and Process Management
This paper presents the compelling reasons why recent technology advancements are creating an accelerated trend to combine Process Management and Six Sigma to form a more robust approach to sustainable business performance improvement. Process Management and Six Sigma methodologies have been in existence for more than 15 years. Both approaches...
Tags: Process Management, Convergence, Business Process Trends, Six Sigma, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process Improvement, Enterprise Software, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations, Software
White papers 2004-12-01
Verity's New LiquidOffice 4.0: A Smart Combination of Search, eForms, and Process Management
LiquidOffice v4.0 is a harbinger of the shape of software to come. This article discusses Verity's new LiquidOffice 4.0, which was announced by the company in April, ending the suspense about how it planned to combine its acquisitions. LiquidOffice is a good example of new tools that combine technologies to...
Tags: Verity Inc., Process Management, LiquidOffice 4.0, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Management, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Software
White papers 2005-06-01
Process Innovations: When the Inmates Run the Asylum
One of the problems with mainstream process management is that it too rarely addresses processes performed by knowledge workers. These processes represent the sweet spot of our economy, and include things like R&D, marketing, executive management, strategic planning, professional services, and so forth. So what is a process manager to...
Tags: Process, Innovation, Process Management, Knowledge, Babson College, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Management, Software
White papers 2004-05-01
Staffware Process Suite Version 2
Business Software has long been used to support key business processes, there is nothing new in this notion. What has changed though is the realization that the easiest ways for organizations to be competitive, manage costs, be viable, be flexible and responsive, is to understand and improve the structure and...
Tags: Business Process, Staffware, Process Management, Operational Planning, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Software
White papers 2003-03-01
The Four Waves of Process Management
The business concept of "Process" is not new. But as the twenty-first century begins, "Process" has become a revolutionary concept capable of transforming the ways a company achieves and sustains competitive advantage. It is inarguable that process management (TQM, reengineering, etc) has helped industry save billions in operating cost and...
Tags: Process Management, Competitive Advantage, Better Management.com, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Sales, Management, Software
White papers
Business Knowledge Management
Typically, Business Process Management BPM theorists and practitioners have focused on highly structured processes, like back-office processes of industrial or administrative nature. These processes are highly standardized and repeatable, produce a consistent output and are likely to be automated in part or end-to-end STP. All process instances are executed in...
Tags: Process, Process Management, Knowledge, EzineArticles.com, Knowledge Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Management, Software
White papers 2005-06-23
A Business Process Oriented Approach for the Identification and Support of Organizational Knowledge Processes
Process orientation is a widely recognized concept of organizing companies. With the emergence of knowledge management, new and challenging questions arise: How can knowledge management build on existing process management efforts? How can these two approaches effectively be integrated? How can organizational knowledge flows adequately be identified and supported by...
Tags: Business Process, Process Management, Knowledge, Knowledge Management, Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Business Operations, Data Management
White papers 2003-06-11
Where Business Process Management Is Now
Business Process Management is gaining significant momentum in the market. With so many companies looking for better ways to manage their processes and so many vendors claiming to have process management solutions, this is a good time to take stock of the movement. The focus on business process itself isn't...
Tags: Business Process, Process Management, BPM, Computer Sciences Corp., Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Business Operations, It Operations, Software, Management
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