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As companies move towards a process centric organizational model, the standardization of their business process maps becomes an increasingly important issue. The maps need to have the same general format, use the same set of symbols and be able to be read the same way.
Dr. Geary A. Rummler’s book, Improving Performance-How to Manage the White Space on the Organization Chart, is considered one of the groundbreaking works in business process and performance improvement. As a co-founder of the Performance Design Lab, he has continued to evolve and expand the theory base and methodologies that can lead to breakthrough approaches to management systems, measurement, strategy, and organization structure design and implementation. His latest book, Serious Performance Consulting According to Rummler, is designed to enable performance consultants to move beyond their focus on individuals to produce organizational results. He talked to Gregg V. Rock, Editor of BPMinstitute.org.
Andrew Spanyi is the managing director of Spanyi International Inc., a consulting and training company that operates in the field of organization and process design. He has worked with executive teams at global organizations for nearly two decades, assisting them in transforming the way they think about their business. He is the author of “Business Process Management is a Team Sport, Play It to Win!”
Monthly Column by Bruce Silver, Independent BPMS Industry Analyst
At its heart, a business rules approach involves delivering the rules of the business back to the business itself, not merely burying them in automated systems. This means separating business rules from process and data as distinct components of business system specifications and managing them as a new kind of business or technical asset.
Today, with an ever-growing base of standards surrounding it, Web services has evolved into a design philosophy for componentization of business services within and across corporate boundaries. This is what is now being identified as a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
The CUNA Mutual Group implemented a major integration project that applied standard methods of business process modeling, requirements management, project management, change management, and organizational design.
Peter Gilbertson is a Process & Quality Consultant at CUNA Mutual Group in Wisconsin . His primary focus is establishing corporate standards for process design and improvement methods as well as supporting large corporate strategic projects.
CUNA Mutual is the leading provider of financial and insurance product and services to credit unions and their members worldwide.
Much has been written about the importance of having a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to support both the development of BPM applications as well as to promote enterprise deployment of BPM.
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A determined group at Coors has demonstrated the real value of business process management to the executive team.
Coors Brewing Co., a subsidiary of the Molson Coors Brewing Co., is a major U.S. brewer. The parent company is the world’s fifth largest brewer, with revenues of $6 billion annually.
In addition to the hard benefits of improving employee productivity and reducing cycle time, BPMS offers the strategic benefit of agility, meaning enhanced responsiveness to the continual shifts in both the competitive landscape and regulatory compliance environment. BPMS fosters agility by allowing new cross-functional process solutions to be developed and deployed quickly, and by enabling the rules that drive them to change with minimal development effort.
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The BPMS Certificate is the perfect way to show employers that you are serious about business process management. With in-depth knowledge of process improvement and management, you'll be able to take your business career to the next level.
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