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Integrating Lean and Six Sigma
Both the Lean and the Six Sigma methodologies have proven that it is possible to achieve dramatic improvements in cost, quality, and time by focusing on process improvement. Six Sigma is focused on reducing variation and improving process yield by following a problem-solving approach using statistical tools, Lean is primarily concerned with eliminating waste and improving flow by following the Lean principles and a defined approach to implement each of these principles.
Business Architecture: Post Merger/Acquisition
Any Business Architect can make a case for developing and maintaining business architecture for any business situation; it is the best way to create agility, align IT with the business, and establish the governance that keeps the business focused on the stated strategy. However, there is one situation that benefits from business architecture that is more obvious than any other – merger/acquisition.
The BPMS Value Proposition
It seems the more technology transforms the way you run your business, the higher the bar of customer expectations is raised, and the faster the pace of change accelerates. You’re doing things faster and better than ever, at lower cost, and on a more global scale, but you still feel you’re falling behind. Your twenty-first century pain points make you long for the days when the biggest worry was Y2K.
BPMS Watch: Organizing Complex BPMN Models
When you first begin to model processes with BPMN, it’s hard to look past the challenge of the notation itself – all the event types, flow control patterns, exception handling patterns, and the rules for sequence flows and message flows. With a bit of training and practice, the rules and diagram patterns soon become second nature, and that part of the modeling effort gets easy.
Adapting ERP Solutions, via SOA, to the Business Needs of Government
Government decision makers faced with the need to streamline their business operations have begun to worry that the architectural construct we call services-oriented architecture (SOA) cannot be reconciled with the implementation of bundled, enterprise-wide product suites – a.k.a. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions.
Best Practices for Building BPM & SOA Centers of Excellence
This round table will describe the BPM and SOA full-day training courses being held at the BrainStorm event series in 2009 and online. The goal is to train the attendees how to develop the essential elements that are needed to successfully justify, launch and to then evolve a Business Process Management office in your organization and an SOA Center of Excellence.
What is Business Architecture and Why Has it Become So Important?
Business architecture is the critical bridge between business strategic and operational planning and technology at an enterprise level. This Round Table will explain why it is becoming more important in 2008.
Business Architecture survey results will also be discussed.
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Tipping Points Round Table Series – BDM with BPM and SOA: Exploring The Relationships
Business Decisions are the missing link joining BPM and SOA to Business Rules. The Round Table explores strategies for maximizing ROI for operational business decisions and BPM/BDM projects. It discusses the benefits attained and agility gained when organizations externalize and manage Decisions and Business Rules.
This round table is now available on-demand.
SOA Watch: Most SOA Consultants Need a Lesson in SOA
Many people in the planning stages for SOA do not get the proper advice and guidance as to how to proceed, or even what a SOA actually is.
The Real Reason to Build a Business Architecture
Today many companies are considering whether or not to undertake a Business Architecture (BA) initiative. Many strategic research and service firms have recognized the importance of linking the BA to the strategy and integrating the BA with its supporting IT architectures, in an Enterprise Architecture (EA) framework. These firms have frequently reported on the BA’s increasing value to successful companies and provided sound reasons for undertaking the initiative. But, this does not make it a sure thing for the enterprise. So, why is a Business Architecture initiative an important one?
The Softer Side of BPM
“The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.” Nelson Boswell, Author
Practical SOA management (end-to-end performance and problem resolution)
With IT Operations worried that SOA performance management is teetering on the brink of chaos, can they find anything to love about SOA?
There is a lot to love about the flexible solution design approach that Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) represents. SOA facilitates discoverable and reusable software services, which developers love because they need not recreate existing code. Indeed, all sorts of software services, from browser widgets to serious business assets (IBM’s SOA catalog for example) are now easily downloadable.
The Human Performance System
The human performance system (HPS) is a model that describes the variables influencing the behavior of a person in a work system. The HPS has been used by performance analysts and others for some 40 years to diagnose and even predict the likely behavior of human beings in given performance situations. The earliest version of this model was created in the 1960’s by Geary Rummler and Dale Brethower .
Business Decision Management – Part 1
INTRODUCTION
Organizations adopting business process management approaches often find that a process-centric approach risks assuming that only two basic components must be coordinated – existing systems and tasks performed by people. The problem with this is twofold.
- Firstly, many existing systems are extremely “dumb” – they store data, manage it and regurgitate it on command. These “legacy” systems have been built to support the largely stable business of the past rather than to cope with today’s dynamic business environment.
A Business Oriented Architecture: Combining BPM and SOA for Competitive Advantage
To support business process improvement initiatives, many IT groups today have been implementing a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in order to re-orient their core technology to reflect new consumption patterns. The service oriented context, however, is only a part of the process improvement equation – it needs a partner. This paper discusses how leading companies have recognized that implementing Business Process Management (BPM) and SOA together gives them unique capabilities to enable business process improvement.
Insight and Ideas
Almost everyone is familiar with the famous Edison quote: “Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration”. To know much about Edison’s life, is to know that was certainly true for him – and many other creative individuals when you take the time to learn how they worked. Yet, there is still a strong sense among many that great ideas come to the gifted in the way lightning strikes, unpredicted and unexpected.
Insights as Idea Sources
In my experience, great ideas more likely come from great insight.
Business Architecture: Coming of Age
What is business architecture? If you ask ten business architects, you’re likely to get ten overlapping definitions clustered, to varying degrees, somewhere around the correct answer. But what is that answer?
SOA Watch: Don’t Let the Vendors Drive Your SOA
So, why are organizations looking towards their “comfort vendors” and “comfort technologies?” It’s a matter of path of least resistance and lack of education.
Path of least resistance because the relationship is already established, and you don’t have to go through the hassle of getting to know new players, or many new players.
EMC Documentum Process Suite 6.0
EMC Corporation is a world leader in hardware, software, and services for information and storage management. The EMC Documentum Process Suite offering is part of the Documentum family of enterprise content management (ECM) software, and is tightly integrated with the Documentum Content Server and repository for its operation. While it can be applied to a broad class of process solutions, the primary focus is on transactional content management (TCM). Transactional content typically originates outside of the organization and drives internal back- office transactions such as invoice processing, loan origination, claims and case management.
BPMS Watch: Ten Tips for Effective Process Modeling
The BPMN specification presents lots of technical definitions and rules, but it does not teach you how to create process models that are effective in their primary mission – maximizing shared understanding of the as-is or to-be process. To do process modeling effectively, you need to go beyond the spec and learn a basic methodology, best practices, and specific diagram patterns to use in common situations. To illustrate the point, here are ten tips for effective modeling in BPMN.
