Strategic Business Plans and end-to-end Business Processes are important.
The Human Focus of Business Processes and Systems
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Understanding Business Data: The Key to Business Rule Extraction
Large-scale information systems are impacted in a variety of ways as organizations retool business processes and undergo related transformations. Whether migrating, redesigning, consolidating or replacing existing systems, analysts need to gain a better understanding of underlying systems functionality.
BPM and Business Rules Technology Provide A New Paradigm for Business and IT
In many organizations today there exists a communication gap between the business community and the IT organization that is so commonplace that its existence is virtually taken for granted. This gap exacts a heavy toll on an organization by preventing business domain experts from knowing how their business is really working.
Business Value of Process Standards
If you don’t have the time to listen to this issue’s Featured Archive, this article serves as an Executive Summary of the presentation, “Business Value of Process Standards” by Jeanne Baker, Director and Chair of BPMI.org and Sterling Commerce. Baker discusses the emerging PBM standards, which will help companies of all sizes benefit from BPM by identifying new opportunities for growth and competitive advantage.
BPMS Watch: Selecting A BPMS
Monthly Column by Bruce Silver, Independent BPMS Industry Analyst
Service-Oriented Architecture Implementations ‘Flattens the World’
Thomas L. Friedman’s book, The World is Flat, provides several helpful insights into current business and technology environments. Some of these insights bear directly on the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) world, particularly with regard to how services can be accessed and used regardless of geography or technological origin.
In the non-SOA world, applications and architectures are designed with a single or limited use.
Aetna Facilitates Business Rules Development in Key Project
This interview originally appeared in the members only BPM Strategies Magazine. Join today to receive your own copy.
Fragmented Business Processes Destroy Value
When organizations become fragmented, it requires more work to deliver value to the customer and the ability of the organization to adapt to environmental changes is diminished. In extreme cases, the loss of value is deadly and businesses go extinct.
What causes businesses to become fragmented?
Business fragmentation occurs when critical processes aren’t managed as an integrated system. Workflows become a complex series of handoffs between functions, jobs and information systems. Each handoff represents an opportunity to introduce error, delay and added cost.
When organizations become fragmented, it requires more work to deliver value to the customer and the ability of the organization to adapt to environmental changes is diminished. In extreme cases, the loss of value is deadly and businesses go extinct.
What causes businesses to become fragmented?
The Great 21st Century Business Reformation
If you don’t have the time to listen to this issue’s Featured Archive, this article serves as an Executive Summary of the presentation, ” The Great 21st Century Business Reformation ” by Peter Fingar, Executive Partner in the digital strategy firm, the Greystone Group. Fingar explains How BPM will bring about epic change through operational transformation driven by the fusion of business operations and technology.
Selecting the Best Method for Process Baselining
When launching a process improvement effort, your foundational step is understanding how your business currently works and how it needs to change. I call this “process baselining”. It gives you the baseline or starting point upon which your process improvement efforts can be built. Baselining involves:
documenting the process steps along with their supporting information (i.e., roles, timing, volumes, metrics, etc.), understanding the places where the process breaks down (breakpoints), identifying areas of waste (i.e., redundancies, delays, etc.).
