Tag Archives: processes
Advice to Organizations: Know Your Processes
Question: “Why should we spend time and money to model our processes? If it ain’t broke don’t fix it!” These are some of the questions and comments that we as Process Analysts get to hear a lot. The answer is very … read more
FollowHow to Test the Pulse of your Processes and See if they are Still Alive!
Many processes are like zombies. They wake up in the morning, brush their teeth, take the train ride to work and start working. For four hours they check their emails, put of fires and curse the work they do. Then, … read more
Spice up the life with weekly process leadership learning
A new book called “You Think You Are Doing Well? Become a Winner With Customer-Centric Process Leadership!” has been published to help you to develop both your personal leadership and business process management skills with each passing week. Even though … read more
How To Harness the Power of Process Innovation
Process innovation is very important in any organisation, because it is the way everything is produced from products and services to customer experience. Organisations should do more systematic process innovation to get the benefits that are available. To make process … read more
BPM – Taking a Systems View
I have been known to say that a company is a collection of processes. However, the combined processes are also part of a system. One process can affect another or others. Applying an 80/20 rule, 20% of your processes will … read more
BPM Requires a Long Term Strategy
What is your plan for Business Process Management? BPM plans can be as simple as managing a single business process or as complex as managing all of your company’s processes or anywhere in between. I contend that you would not … 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
Education and BPM
From Allan C. Brownfeld • The Inherent Inefficiency of Government Bureaucracy There are few who will disagree with the fact that, in recent years, the governmental bureaucracy has grown dramatically while its efficiency has deteriorated in an equally dramatic manner. Let’s look … read more
Two Common BPM Project Planning Patterns
When crunched for time, be it on a project, or trying to get to your next meeting, or preparing a RFP that is due soon, the tendency is to find shortcuts or whole-cuts, anything that will help reach that deadline. … read more
