Resources in Operational Excellence (OPEX)

Our focus on Operational Excellence (OE) is on the alignment of strategies, processes, performers, measures, technologies and management to achieve and sustain outstanding levels of performance of the entire enterprise.

Our belief is that Operational Excellence is achievable only when an organization has defined the major elements that affect performance and aligned them (which often means redesigning them) to support strategies and goals.

Just as often the task of alignment also means ridding the organization of things (practices, policies, organization structures) that impede Operational Excellence.

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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:

Business Intelligence Trends and Directions for 2004 and Beyond

Business Intelligence has matured to provide organizations a platform and a tools suite for IT to enable users to access and deliver timely and relevant information. The shift in the market to fully integrate the breadth of enterprise reporting, analytics, dashboards and other capabilities has created new opportunity and misperceptions on the reality on the trends in the BI market. Contributing cultural, technological and business factors that are driving or inhibiting the market will be presented.

Case Study: Supporting Enterprise Level Decision Making at HP

Examine how post-merger HP has begun to resolve its Enterprise BI challenges. Deborah Poindexter will explain how HP was able to bring focus to the difficult task of designing a centralized BI integration layer with Enterprise Standard Dimensions, a critical part of this design, becoming the one true source for dimensional data. She will describe the business triggers, pitfalls, and innovations encountered during the process.

Getting Started in BPM

Contributed by:Daniel Morris, Managing Principle, Wendan Consulting

By: Daniel C. Morris, Independent Industry Consultant, Morris-Brandon Consulting

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.

Business Performance Management Meets Business Process Management

Contributed by:Janelle Hill, VP & Distinguished Analyst, BPM Research, Gartner Inc.

By: Janelle Hill, Vice President, Gartner Inc.

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.

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

Contributed by:Andrew Spanyi, Faculty Member, DBizInstitute.org and Managing Director, Spanyi International

By: Andrew Spanyi, Managing Director, Spanyi International

This article originally appeared in the members only BPM Strategies Magazine. Join today to receive your own copy.

Beyond Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: The Benefits of BPM for Compliance

Forward-looking organizations realize that BPM-based SOX compliance solutions will not only meet their initial regulatory needs, but also provide the long-term framework for strategic risk management and process control. Creating compliance "Inside" business process controls enables an organization to go beyond documenting and evaluating SOX controls to actually remediating deficient controls and enforcing them within their business processes.

Managing Processes for Performance: Applying Performance Management to your Business Processes

By: Colin Snow, Vice President Research Director, Ventana Research

Business Process Management (BPM) technology continues to grow and mature. Yet the breadth and complexity of business processes seems to be expanding at an even faster pace.

Driven by massive reductions of transaction costs, a new generation of business redesign possibilities is being exploited by businesses to gain competitive advantage.

Evolving Business Intelligence to Business Performance Management

Firms today are bombarded with messages from financial analytics vendors, BI vendors, and ERP vendors about business performance management (BPM). Concurrently, there is a market "buzz" around business activity monitoring and business process management that further adds to the confusion and firms are often stymied as to what their next steps should be. BPM is a business process enabled through a set of integrated analytical applications that provide closed-loop metrics, planning and reporting.