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Are You Ready For Extreme Competition? The Process Centric Culture

In the first webinar, we'll discuss that to be able to truly compete in the 21st century, organizations have to be able to react quickly to changing business conditions, be flexible in approaches to competition and manage resources effectively. This webinar will address how to create and manage the evolution of a process-centric culture within your organization that makes your business better suited to compete in today's world of extreme competition. Attendees will learn how best practices, centers of excellence and real execution sponsorship are becoming the critical success factors for the 21st century's industry leaders.

Are You Ready For Extreme Competition?

SOA Management and SOA ROI

By: Jasmine Noel, Ptak, Noel & Associates

Many enterprises are chasing the dream of real-time operations to contend more effectively in a hyper-competitive market. This dream entails flexible business processes, just-in-time products, and on-demand services that are all driven by marketplace events and shifting customer demands. This dream is impossibly expensive to achieve without software to automate the processes and functions that make up a business’ engine. The trick is to shrink software development and integration times to next to nothing and making operational management efficient.

How Integration Appliances Simplify and Accelerate SOA Implementation

Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) were designed to make life simpler, but many SOA implementations are becoming more complex than the architectures they're replacing. To achieve maximum benefit from your SOA, it's crucial to keep up with architecture and design principles, plus newer SOA technologies like integration appliances, that actively drive simplicity and project acceleration.

Business Performance Management Meets Business Process Management

Contributed by:

Janelle Hill, VP & Distinguished Analyst, BPM Research, Gartner Inc.

By: Janelle B. Hill, Vice President, Gartner Inc.

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

Best Practices in Business Process Management

By: Bill Chambers, Principal Analyst, Doculabs

Business process management is a top priority for organizations today. The BPM market is hot and it is important to know what the basic steps of BPM strategy are and who the vendors are and what they offer. The scope of what BPM is and what it can do for your organization is changing. There is still a lot of hype, so everyone needs to know who is doing what, and how well it works. Every organization needs a BPM strategy and a comprehensive deployment plan.

Bill Chambers is a principal analyst at Doculabs.

The Customers Win through BPM

By: Ken Vollmer, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research Group

Forrester defines BPM as: The designing, executing and optimizing of cross-functional business processes that incorporate systems, processes and people.

BPM systems are being used with increasing frequency inside organizations to improve the effectiveness of their core operations.

The Fast Track: From Buried Business Rules to Managed Business Rules (KPI RMM Level 0 to 2 in a year)

By: John Jack Stellrecht, Project Leader, New York State and Local Retirement System

How does a conservative government organization fast track a paradigm shift? One method that has worked well is to keep the change process so simple that the lure of it is irresistible. This is precisely how it happened at the New York State and Local Retirement System (NYSLRS). The paradigm shift is one towards Business Rule Management (BRM). The change process is the User-defined Function Approach (UDFA). The measurement of success was provided by Barbara von Halle, founder of Knowledge Partners, Inc (KPI).

An Incremental Approach to Enterprise Decision Management

Enterprise Decision Management (EDM) offers organizations the opportunity to lift performance in many areas of operations. Wherever business processes involve complex decisions, and these decisions must be made rapidly, in high volumes and under changing conditions, EDM will improve results.

Introducing a Cornerstone of the Business Rules Approach: The Rule Maturity Model

Contributed by:

Barbara von Halle, Managing Partner & Founder, Knowledge Partners International LLP

By: Barbara von Halle, Editorial Director, BR Bulletin & Founder, Knowledge Partners, Inc.

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

Business Process Management and Accounts Payable

Gartner’s BPM Senior Analyst Jim Sinur advises organizations to “Consider agile BPM templates if you want to cut time to market and cost, while retaining business uniqueness.” ( Business Process Management Suites Will Be the 'Next Big Thing', Gartner Research Note, 8 February 2005 )