Enterprises that practice complex sales often struggle with processes like proposal, quote, and contract generation and approval and other sales support processes that turn prospects into customers. BPM provides an avenue for these organizations to improve sales processes by automating standard operating procedures and proposal/quote and contract generation and enabling real-time sales process change management. BPM adopters can also benefit from re-use of existing collaborative desktop applications and portals and can achieve real-time visibility into customer on-boarding metrics and compliance objectives. This white paper from Metastorm describes five key benefits BPM offers for large, distributed sales organizations.
The BPM Lifecycle: Exploring Models for Strategy to Execution and Continuous Improvement
BPM lifecycle—the conceptual framework organizations use to describe how processes are managed, improved, and governed over time. But here’s the truth: we don’t have a standardized model of the BPM lifecycle. And in fact, that’s one of the things we love about BPM....
