BPM provides more than just a new way of measuring and understanding your business.  It also delivers a new technology platform that is critical to realizing the innovation, efficiency, compliance, and agility that BPM promises.  That platform, called a BPM Suite (BPMS), supports the complete process implementation lifecycle, from modeling to implementation design, execution, and business activity monitoring, with feedback to modeling for continuous performance improvement. 

BPMS offerings have matured greatly in the past year or two.  Today most provide a unified design

The services sector of business is different than the industrial manufacturing models that have been the primary references for the last century or so. Treating services businesses as if they were just a version of a manufacturer - just substituting the word “service”...

Here are some news headlines that the governor of any state would like to trumpet: The state has slashed its wireless telephone costs by 25 percent. A new purchasing process has saved the state $62,000 in the acquisition of public-safety and police vehicles....

The BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) represent the fastest growing markets in the world. But consumers there are the “unserved” today as they simply don’t have the income to afford Western goods and service. So, who will serve them and tap this huge market? While others keep their focus on U.S. and other affluent Western markets, innovators from the BRIC countries themselves are flying under the radar, not just to imitate, but to innovate to reach the billions of unserved and underserved.

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