Articles

Define Your BPM Strategy Before Selecting a Tool

Author(s):

BPMInstitute.org

Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

With the wide range of available tools on the market today together with the large number of white papers, articles and books on BPM, determining the correct solution for your organization can be daunting. With so much emphasis on the effectiveness of BPM tools for improving productivity, streamlining the value chain and gaining competitive edge, it’s easy to get caught up in all the hype and end up with a much more sophisticated and expensive solution than the business really needs.

Without Metrics, Process Improvement Can Be Hazardous to Your Business Health

Author(s):

Ken Mullins

Senior Principal, MITRE Corporation

Imagine yourself as the owner of a business domain within a government agency. Let’s say you’re the Deputy Administrator of entitlement programs in an organization that processes claims for benefits.

Implementing Decisions in Modern Technology

Author(s):

Brian Stucky

Managing Director, Business Decision Management, Allegiance Advisory Group

“Bridging the gap between business and technology for true collaboration” has long been the mantra of Business Rule Management Systems (BRMS) and Business Process Management Systems (BPMS). Although this has too often been a strictly technology-based approach, methodologies and approaches have been forwarded in both the rule and process realm. The problem?

Running Effective SOA Proofs of Concept

Author(s):

John Moe

Principal Consultant, J Moe Associates

As I mentioned in the last article, Selling SOA to the Business, it is important to gain buy-in from the stakeholders for your planned SOA initiatives. However, at some stage you will need to expose the business to the technology and demonstrate the specific value it will have to them. In parallel you will also want to get a good handle on what is actually possible to deliver as opposed to the hype you have been fed by the analysts.

Becoming a BDM & BPM Evangelist

Author(s):

David Pedersen

Senior Decision Architect, Knowledge Partners International LLP

So, you have just returned from a great conference where you learned that BPM (business process management and BDM (business decision management) will address many of the issues you face within your company. You now have the proof, from the experiences of other companies, as to how these methodologies can benefit your company. You’re so excited over the opportunity to make real difference in your organization. You share your excitement with a few co-workers but quickly realize that getting upper management to buy into this newfound methodology may be harder than you think.

Dashboard Design

Author(s):

Karen Tricomi

Consultant, The Process Geek

This month’s article provides tips on ways to display information in a way that is content rich. These methods display information in a way that enhances understanding, highlights important elements, and minimizes distractions.

In 1983, Edward Tufte published a remarkable book titled The Visual Display of Quantitative Information¹.

The Corporate Strategy, Business Architecture and IT

Author(s):

Ralph Whittle

Enterprise Business Architect, Independent Consultant

The Corporate Strategy defines the mission, vision and long-range objectives for conducting the business and achieving enterprise success. The Business Architecture (BA) is a blueprint of the enterprise built using architectural disciplines to improve performance. Development of the Business Architecture is a strategic initiative, not a departmental undertaking, not the pet project of a middle manager nor the latest priority of the week. The purpose of the BA is simple and clear; it is a tool used to improve enterprise wide performance as required by the strategy.

BPMS Watch: The Next Innovation in BPMS

Author(s):

BPMInstitute.org

Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

One of the most successful innovations of the BPMS vendors to date has been incorporation of process modeling within the suite. Process modeling used to be a standalone business activity, requiring expensive proprietary tools that gave little thought to any automated IT implementation.

Top Down Business Execution

Author(s):

Raj Ramesh

Chief Story Teller, TopSigma

A plan is not enough

A few months back, my wife mentioned that we had not had a family vacation in years, and it’d be good if I can plan something that the whole family would enjoy.

I got to work on it immediately. There are so many wonderful places to visit; so I took a systematic approach to cull down the list to a manageable few destinations. My research included talking to friends, browsing the web, and reading travel books. Finally, I hand the answer – Rome it’ll be. I have always been fascinated with ancient civilizations.

SOA’s Transformation of Configuration, Change and Compliance Management

Author(s):

BPMInstitute.org

Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

At the moment most of the SOA software configuration management discussion is dominated by service version control issues and the use of service registries to capture change management data.