Articles

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.

Business Value of Process Standards

Author(s):

BPMInstitute.org

Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

If you don’t have the time to listen to this issue’s Featured Archive, this article serves as an Executive Summary of the presentation, “Business Value of Process Standards” by Jeanne Baker, Director and Chair of BPMI.org and Sterling Commerce. Baker discusses the emerging PBM standards, which will help companies of all sizes benefit from BPM by identifying new opportunities for growth and competitive advantage.

BPMS Watch: Selecting A BPMS

Author(s):

BPMInstitute.org

Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

Monthly Column by Bruce Silver, Independent BPMS Industry Analyst

Service-Oriented Architecture Implementations ‘Flattens the World’

Author(s):

BPMInstitute.org

Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

Thomas L. Friedman’s book, The World is Flat, provides several helpful insights into current business and technology environments. Some of these insights bear directly on the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) world, particularly with regard to how services can be accessed and used regardless of geography or technological origin.

In the non-SOA world, applications and architectures are designed with a single or limited use.