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Beyond ITIL: Process-Aware BSM Connects IT to Business Priorities
CIOs and IT leaders are under tremendous pressure to demonstrate how they deliver real value to their businesses. They must ensure that their IT staff is working on the right activities at the right time plus ensure that Business and IT priorities are aligned. Summit Strategies analysts have identified a number of key global business process transformations that can be successfully executed when IT and business leaders share a common view – from the dynamic day-to-day operational IT priorities to the ups and downs of customer demand within key business processes.
Incorporating Domains into SOAs
Today, with an ever-growing base of standards surrounding it, Web services has evolved into a design philosophy for componentization of business services within and across corporate boundaries. This is what is now being identified as a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
“The Project Process” – Integration of the Big Five – Process Modeling, Project Management, Change Management and Organizational Change
The CUNA Mutual Group implemented a major integration project that applied standard methods of business process modeling, requirements management, project management, change management, and organizational design.
Peter Gilbertson is a Process & Quality Consultant at CUNA Mutual Group in Wisconsin . His primary focus is establishing corporate standards for process design and improvement methods as well as supporting large corporate strategic projects.
CUNA Mutual is the leading provider of financial and insurance product and services to credit unions and their members worldwide.
Developing a BPM Reference Architecture
Much has been written about the importance of having a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to support both the development of BPM applications as well as to promote enterprise deployment of BPM.
Coors Brewing Co. Embarks on the BPM Path
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A determined group at Coors has demonstrated the real value of business process management to the executive team.
Coors Brewing Co., a subsidiary of the Molson Coors Brewing Co., is a major U.S. brewer. The parent company is the world’s fifth largest brewer, with revenues of $6 billion annually.
Enabling Cross-Enterprise Process Visibility
In a world of reduced IT budgets and application backlogs, organizations must be able to reuse services and extend legacy technology. Further, with the ability to orchestrate these services into cross-enterprise business processes, a paradigm shift can be achieved in how applications are constructed, resulting in reduced costs and complexity in offering new services to customers.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA) has achieved this paradigm shift with the deployment of an SOA-based, business process-driven infrastructure.
BPMS Watch: Agility and BPMS Architecture
In addition to the hard benefits of improving employee productivity and reducing cycle time, BPMS offers the strategic benefit of agility, meaning enhanced responsiveness to the continual shifts in both the competitive landscape and regulatory compliance environment. BPMS fosters agility by allowing new cross-functional process solutions to be developed and deployed quickly, and by enabling the rules that drive them to change with minimal development effort.
Case Study: Business Process Management – Applying Best Practices to Sales and Operations Planning
Polaroid was a company in recovery, needing to balance the Sales & Operations Planning functions in order to save money and resources. Ideally, planners could continually adjust SKU/sub-SKU demand and production while matching the business to marketplace realities. Polaroid with IBM created a solution to provide management with a continuous view of the future, enabling them to provide conscious, top-down direction.
Mark Payne is Vice President of Operations for Polaroid Corporation.
BPM for Compliance to Reduce Risk, Time, and Cost
Most organizations have now had a taste of what’s involved in complying with regulatory mandates, whether for HIPAA or for SOX section 404, and they are realizing a better, more cost effective way of managing these initiatives is needed. Learn how companies can implement a compliance management approach that:
The Enterprise Service Bus
Suddenly every platform vendor worth its salt is introducing an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). So, what’s going on and why is this important? Simply put, it represents the evolution of middleware from the era of “hub and spoke” and application servers to an abstracted model that is tailor-made for the movement to a service-oriented architecture. In our view, the only way to get the needed scalability and robustness in a world where we can’t predict outcomes is through this abstracted model.
In a perfect world, all vendors would implement this infrastructure in a common and consistent way.
Getting Started in BPM
While there is no one right way to get started in BPM, there are some guidelines that will make your life a lot easier. It should be remembered that getting started in BPM will be based on a belief in process oriented operational improvement and your ability to sell BPM to your management.
Although BPM may well become a strategic initiative in your company, the simple fact is that it is unlikely that many BPM efforts will get started at the enterprise level with formal strategies and aggressive adoption plans.
Understanding the Enterprise Business Architecture
During the past several years, many companies have implemented Business Process Management (BPM) initiatives with great success. You can find several web sites and research companies providing excellent information about BPM frameworks, methodologies and approaches. Some provide monthly bulletins and newsletters which can keep you current on the progress of these initiatives and their emerging capabilities.
Enterprise Business Architecture: The Formal Link between Strategy and Results
How do you feel after reading the business section of the newspaper or your favorite business publication?
Understanding Business Rules as a Key Enabler for Business
For many organizations, business rules represent their core differentiating offerings. This is particularly true in industries where the product offering is actually a service that is implemented by complex software systems. The financial services industry, such as banking, insurance, finance, loan processing and credit cards, is a prime example of a domain (or many domains) where business rules take center stage and are the MVPs of differentiation.
Who Supports BPM in Your Organization?
It has been almost three years now since BPM was first conceived as a breakthrough technology and transforming strategy so why is it that many organizations have still not fully implemented BPM technology let alone developed an enterprise BPM strategy? One key factor is the lack of focused IT support. Who supports BPM in your organization? Most organizations will answer – “Well, there really are multiple people…” and those are the ones who don’t just give you a blank stare.
Business Performance Management Meets Business Process Management
Interest in business process management (BPM) continues to accelerate. Users increasingly offer the right responses to questions about their interest in BPM technology. Despite good business drivers, however, many companies struggle to get started. Too often, the business leaders can’t agree on what it means to be ‘adaptive’ or ‘more efficient.’ Until business leaders agree on process and performance goals and quantify metrics that reflect these objectives, any BPM initiatives will be investments in technology for technology’s sake.
The Process-Centric Company and the Value of BP Frameworks
Ken Orr is the founder and chief scientist for The Ken Orr Institute, a business technology research organization. He is an internationally known and recognized expert on technology transfer, software engineering, information architecture, and data warehousing.
Business Process Lifecycle Management with Savvion BusinessManager
Savvion’s award winning Business Process Management system, Savvion BusinessManager™, enables organizations to automate and manage critical business processes by integrating the people and systems that execute those processes. From supply-chain to service management, help desk and employee self-service applications, Savvion’s unique lifecycle approach to process enables business and IT to collaborative to deploy process improvement initiatives in less than 90 days while delivering a 200% – 300% return on investment.
Performance Measurement: Correcting Measurement Myopia
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BPMS Watch: BPMS and Business Rules
From its earliest beginnings back in the 1980s, process automation technology has always emphasized the notion of “rules-based” logic. Meanwhile, in parallel, a completely independent technology evolved for the enforcement and management of business rules, primarily for decision support. While many BPMS vendors have shamelessly promoted their own process models as examples of “business rules,” process engines and business rule engines – and their respective notions of rules – are actually very different.
