Tag Archives: optimization
Managing by Processes for Dummies
What is the best management strategy for the company? How can I make my business more efficient? These are the key questions business owners and top executives ask themselves nowadays. In this article, we would like to share our experience … read more
FollowKey Performance Indicators for BPM
Let’s recap BPM’s main steps that we introduced in a previous blogpost: Process modelling Process automation Process analysis using key performance indicators (KPIs) Process optimization This post is entirely dedicated to the third step: key performance indicators (or KPIs) for BPM. … read more
BPM and Process Optimization: Don’t Fall into these Potholes along the Way
Business process optimization always links back to the heart of your business. It helps a business reach its goals and fulfill its mission more effectively and more efficiently: your customers get better products, delivered faster and at competitive cost. Optimized … read more
Value Chain Models – The BPM Diamond Cut
The present business and IT ecosystem reached a certain level of intelligence that pushes companies and organizations to become true masters of processes in order to make their way to the top. Besides a company’s business strategy and models, the … read more
We have BPM and we still use paper? Really?
According to recent AIIM Report – ‘Winning the Paper Wars’, 74% of companies have business improvement campaigns that would benefit from paperless initiatives, but only 24% of those have a specific policy to ‘drive paper out of business’. In the … read more
Lean vs. Business Process Management – This Means War!
If it doesn´t make three people angry it isn’t a process!! [Michael Hammer] I have wanted to write this story for some years – it is about the problems when Lean and Business Process Management clash together in large … read more
4 Essentials for Building a Lean Culture
Lean organizational culture helps manufacturing organizations to stay on track with Lean in the long run. The Lean culture is critical for sustainability; and to change it, you have to change your management system. If you stop following through Lean … read more
Avoiding Cowboy Code: BPM has a Place In Agile Software Development
Regardless of the industry, it is essential that Senior IT executives achieve speed to market with quality, functional, easy to use applications. To add pressure to this objective, IT organizations must keep pace as the e-commerce world continuously accelerates, or … read more
6-Sigma and DMAIC from the Customer’s Viewpoint
The goal of 6-Sigma is to achieve consistent, reliable, repeatable performance in areas that affect effectiveness and efficiency. Effectiveness measures meeting the customer’s needs or wants and efficiency measures the cost of meeting customer needs or wants. Let’s go through … read more
12 Important Questions When Starting BPM Projects
This summer, we will highlight the three best read and three most shared blogs on BPM Leader. In line with the spirits of the Olympic Games, we will award these blogs with a gold, silver or bronze medal. Today’s blog … read more
