Intelligent Enterprise Magazine: Two Ways to Win at Process Impr. Business process management suites cover all the bases, but you can score big savings with process analysis and activity monitoring alone. The surest way to win consistently in baseball is to field a complete team that combines hitting, pitching, defense and team speed. But investing in a few big bats is simpler, and you can still win a lot of games. The same is true of business process management (BPM), which seeks to improve business performance by optimizing processes from beginning to end. You can go with a complete set of software tools--a BPM suite--to address every facet of process improvement: operational cost and cycle time, compliance, agility and performance visibility. But you can also score big wins simply by modeling, analyzing and measuring performance from a process perspective. 'BPA' Versus 'BPMS' Other than specifying "business requirements," BPA imposes no constraints, methodology or tools on IT's process implementation. 1 of 5 More Insights.
» Leveraging Web 2.0 for business growth | Enterprise Web 2.0 | I was in San Francisco last week at JavaOne at the same time that Gartner's IT/Symposium was taking place, though I was unable to attend Gartner's event. I was however on a JavaOne panel that discussed Ajax, SOA, and Web 2.0, the convergence of the latter two in particular which is a topic of special interest to me. The organizations that can effectively add enterprise context to this and make it work successfully for them will be able to develop a sustainable competitive advantage.The packed room of 1,200 people that came to hear the panel, overlaid with Gartner's pronouncement a few days ago that Web 2.0 offers enterprises many opportunities for growth, underscored an important point for me. Namely that IT management and IT workers seem to have a major opportunity to align together.
To be sure, many folks at the panel came to hear about Ajax and not Web 2.0, yet a clear majority of the audience also raised their hands about both Web 2.0 and SOA when asked why they came. Enterprise Workflow Morning Session. XPDL 2.0: Integrating Process Interchange and BPMN. Club del BPM. Process matters. « Your brain on Google | Main | Distrust and verify » November 21, 2005 Last week, Ross Mayfield posted an interesting essay called The End of Process. In it, he argues that software-mediated social networks will tend to render formal business processes obsolete by reducing the costs of communication and coordination. "I do believe," he says, "the arguments for engineering organizations are being trumped by new practices and simple tools.
The first organizations bringing [processes] to an end will have a decided competitive advantage. " He goes on to claim that even today "some staid corporations are abandoning process all together. " While provocative, the argument is much too broad, and it floats on a raft of dubious assumptions. In fact, meticulously defined and managed processes continue to be a powerful source of competitive advantage for many companies. Trackback Pings TrackBack URL for this entry: This is the problem: Business Process Trends :: Columns & Articles.
Columns & Articles Columns and Articles are short opinion pieces written by BPTrends Contributors, presenting a particular point of view or perspective on some aspect of business process change. All Columns and Articles are listed in the order in which they were initially posted to this site, beginning with the most recent posting. Performance Architecture: Are you Agile? Roger Addison - October 02, 2012 As performance architects, Roger Addison and Carol Haig’s perspective on the Agile organization is characterized by 10 adaptive practices.
These practices are seen at three levels of the organization—the worker level, the work level, and the organization level. In this Column, they define those 10 practices and provide a Quiz for evaluating your organization’s agility. Building Mobile Enabled Enterprises Sameer Paradkar - October 02, 2012 BPM and Lean: Part 1—The Plan Cheryl Walker - October 02, 2012 Extreme Competition: Back to the Future of BPM—2012-A Very Special Year Ron Ross - July 03, 2012. BPM 2006. Using SaaS and Web 2.0 for business automation. I've been spending a lot of time lately looking at solutions for automated business processes that are based on the online, low-barrier, and highly collaborative worlds of SaaS and Web 2.0. Primarily, this is part of my exploration of using Web 2.0 in the enterprise, sometimes called Enterprise 2.0, but which we call Enterprise Web 2.0 here.
Read the overview of our exploration of Web 2.0 strategies in the Enterprise, or read the strategies explored so far, which have covered enterprise approaches for blogs and wikis. This area is of importance because good, effective Business Process Management has been one of the holy grails of enterprise software for years now. Traditional software development has repeatedly yielded BPM results that are too heavyweight, brittle, hard-to-change, and not responsive to the business. And if any of this is true, we should be seeing products that have started down this road. Grand Business Process Visionaries: Rearden Commerce. BPM Rules. Business Process Management: Never Rest.
Many organizations have learned that BPM can compress cycle times, reduce cost and improve responsiveness, yet only about one-third of "process-oriented" companies go beyond the basics of the initial project. If you keep moving by monitoring and continuously improving core processes, you're sure to double your performance improvements. » A growing number of companies are starting to implement the basics of documenting, analyzing and designing business processes, as well as process improvements. Yet companies must go beyond the basics to practice continuous process improvement. Management and improvement of end-to-end business processes is difficult and requires more than a simple, one-time effort.
Continuous process improvement means a fundamental shift in leadership values and disciplined measurement and management of the value that processes create for customers and shareholders. What's at stake? Beyond Functional Thinking 1 of 5 More Insights. Are the days of independent BPM vendors numbered? Microsoft Architecture Journal, Issue 7: Generation Workflow. Windows Workflow Foundation Web. Webinar: Getting Started with BPM. Date: May 17, 2006 Time: 12:00 pm US Eastern All dates and times are NY local time, please consult your favorite world clock to determine when this webinar takes place in your time zone. Featured Speakers: Jeff Ward, Manager General Financial Information Systems, Lee Memorial Health System (bio) John Close, VP Marketing, Lombardi Software (bio) Alison Stoeltje, Content Operations Manager, Hoover's Inc.
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Featured Speaker Bios: 101 Advice for Process Management Neophytes. In a recent Intelligent Enterprise poll on business process management, 36 percent of 1,700 respondents said they were actively considering the technology. BPM Analyst Connie Moore of Forrester Research details who's adopting and adds her advice on where to begin. In a recent Intelligent Enterprise poll on business process management (BPM), 36 percent of 1,700 respondents said they were actively considering the technology (while 24 percent were already piloting, rolling out, in production or upgrading). BPM Analyst Connie Moore of Forrester Research details who's adopting and adds her advice on where to begin. DOUG HENSCHEN (DH): Business process management is gaining a lot of attention as a technology category, but do you think it's well understood? CONNIE MOORE (CM): There's lots of confusion about the term.
DH: What do people expect from BPM? CM: It helps clarify things to think about the various individuals impacted by BPM. More Insights. The Fusion of Process and Knowledge Management. BPM as a Business Catalyst. “Workflow” is Back. I think the term "Workflow" is back. Not that it ever went away. It is just that it has been such a pejorative word. The most common reason given for the difference between "Workflow" and "BPM" was: Workflow is that old stuff we don't do anymore, BPM is much newer, much better. Some people felt that workflow was support for work without any back-end integration. I honestly don't know of any workflow vendor that did not offer integration to backoffice system, nor how you would accomplish keeping workflow separate from the backoffice. Regarless of the reason, from 2001 thru 2005, all the workflow vendors and workflow practitioners changed to using the term "BPM" due to this marketing fluff.
Some thought BPM was a more inclusive term: it mean not only the automation of business tasks, but also the modeling of it, the review of how well things are running, and the overall *management* of those business processes. There recently has been a big realization that "Human BPM" is very important. 2006 BPMS Report Series. The BPMS Report series is objective research, and provides information in depth, not just a simple checklist. The information is not based on a vendor-filled questionnaire, but gathered from product documentation, detailed technical briefings, and in some cases hands-on evaluation. It drills down beneath what is available from the vendor website and white papers to provide BPMS buyers a clear sense of what each product does well, and what it takes to do it. BPMInstitute.org in conjunction with Bruce Silver Associates is pleased to offer The BPMS Report series, available for free to BPMInstitute.org members.
These reports, written by Dr Bruce Silver, a leading independent BPM analyst, provide detailed evaluations of today’s leading Business Process Management Suites. Each 30-40 page report covers a single product in depth, loaded with diagrams and screenshots. The reports are written and owned by Bruce Silver Associates, and distributed exclusively by BPMInstitute.org. Working with Windows Workflow Foundation in ASP.NET. N September of 2005, Microsoft unleashed Windows Workflow Foundation (Windows WF) at its semi-annual Professional Developer's Conference. As one of the pillars of the WinFX APIs, Windows WF provides developers with a common framework on which to develop process driven and workflow-centric applications.
Currently, when organizations wish to automate business processes the standard answer is to assemble a team of developers to write the appropriate code. While this approach has generally served organizations well, it has some inherent problems. To understand why, you need to understand some fundamental characteristics of a workflow. A workflow is essentially a way of documenting the activities involved in completing a unit of work. Typically, work "flows" through one or more activities during processing. You can host Windows WF workflows in any type of .NET application, including Windows Forms, console applications, Windows Services, and ASP.NET Web applications. BPM Think Tank. Process 2006 - The BPMG's 14th Annual Conference. Workflow Management Coalition Member Forum. BPM PRIMETIME. Btug.biz. BizTalk Server 2006: Orchestrating Web Services.
IzTalk Server is the cornerstone product in Microsoft's business process and integration strategy. It is through BizTalk that Microsoft is providing the tools to enable developers to integrate applications, businesses, and EDI, and also orchestrate and coordinate information systems with the business users who drive those systems and their processes. In addition, BizTalk provides a developer experience integrated with Visual Studio, making BizTalk applications easier and more intuitive to develop, and integrating easily with existing Microsoft systems and tools that a business may already use. BizTalk currently has the distinction of being the only server product at Microsoft built primarily on the .NET Framework. The upcoming release of BizTalk Server 2006 extends BizTalk Server 2004 to provide new features for developers building orchestrations and integrating applications and simplifies creating orchestrations that consume or create Web services.
Venice Consulting (Martin Ould) Column 2. BPMI Community Forum. BPM Institute. E-workflow - the workflow portal. Singularity - Business Process Management & Workflow Solutio. BPMCONFERENCE.COM. Prosci Reengineering Learning Center. Process Renewal Group. Enix. FT.com / Understanding Business Process Management. Business Process Trends. Articles. BPMG.