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Your BPM Implementation is Bound to Fail

Contributed by:

Raj Ramesh, Chief Story Teller, TopSigma

By: Dr. Raj Ramesh, Principal, Top Sigma

Failure is the only option

I can outright tell you that your BPM implementation is going to fail, and I will be right 9 out of 10 times. Is this scary?

Research has shown that even amongst IT projects only 20% of them finish on time. On BPM projects, the failure rate is even higher due to the immaturity of the technology and scope of the implementation. If you are implementing a BPM project with the current tools and using the current standards that are still in flux, you are on the bleeding edge of technology. So your failure rate is even higher.

BPMS Watch: Why Buy a BPMS When You Can Get it for Nothing?

By: Bruce Silver, Principal, Bruce Silver Associates

Today’s BPM Suites are delivering on customers’ capability wish lists, but vendors are having a hard time getting buyers to put their money where their mouth is. Caught in limbo between IT infrastructure and an enterprise application, BPMS doesn’t fit traditional payback models of either IT or line of business investment, so it faces a heightened “prove-it” mentality from corporate buyers. But your CFO won’t go for the upfront six-figure outlay you need to demonstrate the payback is real. It’s a classic Catch-22.

OK, suppose the BPMS software were free. Free, as in costs nothing. Zero. Nada.

Enabling Business Process Innovation

Contributed by:

Tom Dwyer, Editorial Director and current Faculty Member, BPMInstitute.org

By: Thomas Dwyer, Editorial Director, BPMInstitute.org, Research Director, the Yankee Group

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

Thomas Dwyer said that most of the problems companies have are due to process problems. These include:

BPM Strategy Deployment Best Practices

By: Bill Chambers, Principle Analyst, Doculabs

As BPM technologies and solutions mature, some organizations are now beginning to develop enterprise-wide BPM strategies. The most important aspects of an effective enterprise BPM deployment strategy are unrelated to the solution or even to the application being implemented. They’re best practices that apply no matter what software you’re using and regardless of the department in which you’re deploying it. Here are three best practices that we advise our clients to keep in mind as they move forward with their BPM strategies.

Optimizing the ROI from BPM

Contributed by:

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

By: Andrew Spanyi, Managing Director, Spanyi International

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

Three Keys to Enhancing BPM Implementation

Contributed by:

Tammy Adams, Managing Partner, Chaosity, LLC

By: Tammy Adams, Managing Partner, Chaosity LLC

If you’re moving up the ladder of CMM or just wanting to better manage your business processes, you need to consider more than which vendor software package to implement. Successfully implementing process management requires addressing all three aspects of the virtual trinity – people, process and technology. While the technology side of the equation is fairly well understood, the people and process side continue to bring challenges. In working with organizations across the country, I’ve found the following three concepts to bring most value in addressing these challenges.

Determining the ROI of Your SOA

By: David S. Linthicum, Author of "Next Generation Application Integration: From Simple Information to Web Services"

While everyone is bound and determined to build an SOA within their enterprise--perhaps even between enterprises--few have attempted to determine their Return on Investment (ROI) to justify this approach and technology. True to form, we are again approaching new technology with fervor and excitement, but we also need to figure out the business case for this movement.

The Top 5 SOA Adoption Pitfalls of 2005

By: Thomas Erl, author of “Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design"

It’s been a tumultuous year in the world of SOA and we’re just at the beginning of rollercoaster ride. As organizations continue to re-examine the ever-shifting landscape of service design, service buses, service governance, and even just services, there are often mixed emotions. Many are confused as to the maturity and overall status of SOA in the IT industry, but there is definite sense of excitement around its touted potential to unite business and technology.

Many SOA initiatives were launched this year, each with its own set of goals and expectations.

How to Select a Metric - How Are You Being Measured?

By: Caspar Hunsche, Managing Director, Process Core Group

In a previous life I was in charge of management reporting for the pan-European logistics organization for Compaq. My team was responsible for monitoring and reporting the daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly performance and progress of the operations. We provided reports on shipments-to-date, invoices send, estimated shipments for the remainder of the day, week or month, order cycle time and average shipment lead-times, and on and on. None of these metrics would keep me awake at night or would cause heavy discussion on accuracy and validity of the metric.