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- the operation, control, evaluation, and improvement of interconnected tasks, with the goal of maximizing effectiveness and efficiency
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- Understanding Pricing Issues
- In an era of increasing globalization, the costs of labor, transportation, and materials constantly fluctuate. This presents a problem because it creates new complexities and encourages new competition. This also presents an opportunity because those complexities challenge your organization to re-evaluate its pricing process regularly. Doing this will help you...
- Articles 2007-10-02
- Process Management Vs Project Management
- When you are given a project plan to review, this paper explains ten things you should look for to determine the quality level of the plan. When a project has already been started, check to see if the tracking of actual data is predicting how the future of the project...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- 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
- 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...
- White papers 2002-03-01
- 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 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
- 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...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- 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...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- 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...
- 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...
- White papers 2005-06-23
- The Three P's Of Project Management
- This paper presents the three P's of project management. The three P's are to take into account the elements and structure of project management. People Management is essential in regards to project management. It takes the leadership of the project manager to guide a team towards working together in symmetry...
- White papers 2009-04-10
- 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...
- 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...
- White papers
- The Fusion of Knowledge and Process Management
- Business process management is an evolving set of methodologies and technologies that promise new levels of business integration and employee productivity. Knowledge management is a relatively mature capability that focuses on generating, managing and distributing distilled information called "Knowledge." At present, the same solution set rarely features these two solutions;...
- White papers 2006-07-10
- Magic Quadrant For Business Process Management Suites, 2006
- Business Process Management Suites BPMSs are a natural advancement to meet the growing requirements for greater degrees of process management maturity and agility. Although the Magic Quadrant presented in this paper reflects the second generation of BPM suites, the results still reflect early market characteristics. A BPMS enables the direct...
- White papers 2006-06-28
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- Business Process Management & Traditional Application Development
- This technical paper examines two solution methodologies and the various implementation strategies they provide. The first method is the traditional application development approach, which is based on an object-oriented design model and produces hard-coded applications. The second is a business process management BPM strategy that uses a process-oriented design model...
- White papers 2004-10-13
- Lawson Software announces automated workflow strategy; Company to deliver embedded, multi-layered business process management
- MINNEAPOLIS--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 22, 1996--Lawson Software, a leading provider of enterprise-wide, client/server business applications, today announced its plans to offer a unique multi-layered implementation of automated business process management and improvement.
- Research articles 1996-01-22
- Savvion and Shared Insights Host Webcast on How Business Process Management Fits Into an SOA Strategy
- Independent Research Analyst and Savvion to Highlight the Importance of Talking Process Management to Sell SOA Vision SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Savvion([R]), the industry's leading business process management BPM company, today announced that it will host a free webinar on using business process management as the key to getting...
- Research articles 2007-02-20
- A Business Process Management (BPM) Communication Strategy Is Essential
- Project leaders, when embarking on a new process management project, need to be aware of the importance of establishing a communication plan when developing and validating a team charter. A finely executed Business Process Management BPM project can suffer disappointing results if an efficient mechanism is not already in place...
- White papers
- Leading Analyst Firm Validates New Onyx Strategy to Deliver Customer Process Solutions; Yankee Group Highlights Onyx Solutions as Key to Helping Large Enterprises Automate, Manage and Evolve to Meet Changing Business Dynamics
- BELLEVUE, Wash. -- OnyxR Software Corporation's (Nasdaq:ONXS) new customer process solution strategy has been recognized by the Yankee Group, a leading industry research firm. In a recent report, Onyx Adds Business Process Engine and Analytics with Latest Product Release, analyst Sheryl Kingstone highlights Onyx' addition of new customer process management...
- Research articles 2005-08-24
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