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HVB Americas Implements Straight-through Processing

By: Elliot King, Editor-in-Chief, BPM Strategies Magazine

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

Eastern and Central Europe are in the midst of dynamic economic changes. Last year, 10 countries joined the European Economic Union and others, including Bulgaria and Romania, are slated to join in the coming years.

The Need for a Standard Business Process Depiction Language (BPDL)

By: Stan Tucker, Owner, Business Process Science

What’s at stake.

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.

Performance Improvement Requires Multi-tiered Approach

Contributed by:

Gregg Rock, Editor & Founder, DBizInstitute.org, BPMInstitute.org & BAInstitute.org

Dr. Geary A. Rummler, industry pioneer in process and performance improvement

Gregg V. Rock talks with Dr. Geary A. Rummler, industry pioneer in process and performance improvement

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.

Transforming Traditional Executive Mental Models

Contributed by:

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

By: Andrew Spanyi, Managing Director, Spanyi International

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!"

BPMS Watch: BPM and SOA: One Technology, Two Communities

By: Bruce Silver, Principal, Bruce Silver Associates

Monthly Column by Bruce Silver, Independent BPMS Industry Analyst

Applying a Business Rules Approach – When and How Much?

By: Art Moore, Business Rule Architect, Knowledge Partners, Inc.

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.

Incorporating Domains into SOAs

By: JP Morgenthal, Managing Partner, Avorcor Inc.

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

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 Project Process” – Integration of the Big Five – Process Modeling, Project Management, Change Management and Organizational Change

By: Peter Gilbertson, Process and Quality Consultant, CUNA Mutual

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.

Developing a BPM Reference Architecture

By: Bill Chambers, Principal Analyst, Doculabs

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.

Coors Brewing Co. Embarks on the BPM Path

By: Elliot King, Editor-in-Chief, BPM Strategies Magazine

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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.