Shelley Sweet
April 17, 2008

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Manage the People or Manage the Process?

Manage the People or Manage the Process?

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Faculty Member, BPMInstitute.org and President, i4 Process

When you are trying to handle a problem, make an improvement, change the culture, or implement a key strategy where do you go first – to manage the people or manage the process?

Consider these four scenarios. Would you approach the situation by managing the people or managing the process? Rate each one against the 5 criteria and think about why you selected the rating. We will come back to these four scenarios at the end at the end of the article and consider them further.

Leaning Your Organization – Does that Mean Cutting Jobs?

Leaning Your Organization – Does that Mean Cutting Jobs?

Author(s):

Faculty Member, BPMInstitute.org and President, i4 Process

Lean is not about cutting jobs to the bone. Rather it is about getting your operation “svelte and fit”, doing more with less, being in the ‘flow’ zone and delivering what the customer values.

Lean is a term coined by James Womack and Daniel Jones in their book Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation. Lean is the term they gave to the principles they observed at Toyota. These principles enabled employees to eliminate wastes, minimize variation through standardization, and increase value in the eyes of the customer.

Taking the Process Map to the Next Level – The Visual Analysis Map

Taking the Process Map to the Next Level – The Visual Analysis Map

Author(s):

Faculty Member, BPMInstitute.org and President, i4 Process

What if you could create a visual that showed your data gathering, problem solving and analytical thinking analysis all in one place?  What if you could have a map which would enable you to talk to stakeholders and executives and get their input on problems, time delays, and key quality issues?  That’s what the Visual Analysis Map can do for you and your team.

The Secret Weapons That Lean Provides for BPM

The Secret Weapons That Lean Provides for BPM

Author(s):

Faculty Member, BPMInstitute.org and President, i4 Process

Ever notice that executives can call attention to a problem but they don’t know what it takes to get it fixed? In contrast, workers have lots of ideas of how to fix things, but they don’t have the authority to get improvements made. And conversations between the two groups are too constrained or conflicted to drive corrective action. To make matters worse, neither group seems to know the whole process and be able to determine how changing one part might impact another. In short, we have trouble finding both the forest and the trees.

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