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BPMS Watch: Analyzing and Optimizing Process Performance

Author(s):

BPMInstitute.org

Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

The hottest trend now in BPM suites is integrated performance management. While BPMS and its workflow ancestors have always featured basic process monitoring and work statistics, the kind of performance management now emphasized is more closely aligned with metrics strategic to the business: the percentage of orders filled immediately, or conformance with service level targets, broken down by customer type. These once were the sole province of business intelligence (BI) software, but performance management analytics and real-time business activity monitoring are now being bro

The Big Deal: Business Governance of Business Rules

Author(s):

BPMInstitute.org

Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

The words “business governance of business rules” is an extremely important, if not explosive, topic. It alludes to turning over the keys of the business back to the business itself. Yet, doing so is an organizationally complex issue.

A reasonable goal is to provide an easy way for business (versus technical) people to write or change the rules of the business, such that doing so maximizes the understanding of the rules, while minimizing the pain (and rigor) of writing them. If writing them properly is too difficult, they won’t do it.

So, it is advantageous to start with a

Transition of a Business Analyst to a Business Rules Analyst

Author(s):

BPMInstitute.org

Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

Who is a Business Analyst?

Business analyst studies the overall business and information needs of an organization in order to develop appropriate solution strategies. As the key liaison between business and information technology departments, the business analyst is responsible for gathering and documenting business requirements and translating them into functional system design specifications that can be successfully executed by IT development teams. A business analyst acts as the communication central between the business and the technology people.

Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Can Lead to Great Improvements in Company Alliance and Partnership Results

Author(s):

BPMInstitute.org

Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 has caused big changes in big business with a hefty price tag. Not only must publicly traded companies document and comply with the financial reporting and internal audit control requirements of the Act, they must also continuously attest, measure and document changes of the related processes to ensure continued compliance.

The challenge of complying with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements inside of a company is notably a time-consuming, costly and arduous task. The good news is that the internal control systems that companies are building will

Business and IT Alignment: Is it for real?

Author(s):

Dr. Setrag Khoshafian

Principal and Chief Scientist, Khosh Consulting

BPM is touted as the technology that will finally bring business and IT together. Not that we haven’t tried to do this before. For instance, many people thought object orientation would do the trick since it tried to model the real world as closely as possible. Did it deliver? To a certain extent, but not quite. Primarily, it ended up as a productivity tool and paradigm for IT (with sometimes questionable success), not the ‘be all’ and ‘end all’ for modeling and executing business requirements.

Solving the Business/IT Alignment

Author(s):

David Heidt

Business Analysis, Practice Leader, Enterprise Agility

David Heidt, a Managing Partner at Enterprise Agility, works with Fortune 1000 clients in the areas of business process analysis, requirements management, iterative development and implementation of enterprise solutions using model-driven development. Heidt is also President of the Chicago Chapter of The Association of Business Process Management Professionals.

You Need BPMS to do BPM

Author(s):

BPMInstitute.org

Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

“To do good work, one must first have good tools.” – Chinese proverb

The acronym BPM means business process management.

The Human Focus of Business Processes and Systems

Author(s):

Ken Orr

Founder & Chief Scientist, The Ken Orr Institute

Strategic Business Plans and end-to-end Business Processes are important.

Understanding Business Data: The Key to Business Rule Extraction

Author(s):

William Ulrich

President, TSG, Inc.

Large-scale information systems are impacted in a variety of ways as organizations retool business processes and undergo related transformations. Whether migrating, redesigning, consolidating or replacing existing systems, analysts need to gain a better understanding of underlying systems functionality.

BPM and Business Rules Technology Provide A New Paradigm for Business and IT

Author(s):

Neal McWhorter

President, Strategic Value Partners

In many organizations today there exists a communication gap between the business community and the IT organization that is so commonplace that its existence is virtually taken for granted. This gap exacts a heavy toll on an organization by preventing business domain experts from knowing how their business is really working.