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Reasons to Embrace Business Process Management

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development There is no question that in today’s volatile economy, extreme business-cycle fluctuations can occur often. Without proper BPM training, understanding the key components that make workflow management successful can be daunting.

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5 Early Warning Signals for a BPI Project

Strategy Driven

Let’s look at the stages of the BPM Methodology and identify early warning signals and then suggest some countermeasures that are helpful to get things righted again. This graphic shows the four stages of the BPM Methodology and the detailed phases of stage 2, the Business Process Improvement Project. Having no charter.

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Do Your Business Process Metrics Measure Up?

Strategy Driven

Peter Fingar, co-author of Business Process Management : The Third Wave , then asks these measurement corollaries in his 2013 article “How Do Your BPM Metrics Measure Up?”. Shelley Sweet, the Founder and President of I 4 Process , and author of The BPI Blueprint , is a highly respected BPM Practitioner. Are we doing the right things?

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Understanding the Importance of Business Process Design

Strategy Driven

Business Process Design is one of the most critical steps of BPM that needs to be designed after the proper analysis and detection. The process is more strongly associated with the development of cost-effective approaches that can ideally be implemented for the perfect execution of various tasks involved in a business.

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Macro Maps Help You Align Processes and Strategy

Strategy Driven

Many thanks to my colleague Jerry Talley for initially developing this concept of a Macro Map. Shelley Sweet, the Founder and President of I 4 Process , and author of The BPI Blueprint , is a highly respected BPM Practitioner. Want to learn more about BPM metrics? A Macro Map can help. And it doesn’t take that long to build.

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Managing a Remote Team: 12 Best Practices for Better Productivity

Strategy Driven

For open-source developers, there’s GitHub , where they can collaborate on, review and manage code. This allows you to save on time and training costs. Maricel Rivera manages content for Comindware, a global leader in adaptive BPM and project management solutions. And for designers, there’s Mural.Ly Choose security.

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

When they set out to turn around processes that have become woefully inefficient or ineffective, most companies choose one of four process improvement "religions": Lean , Six Sigma , Business Reengineering or Business Process Management (BPM). Six Sigma zealots say "Belts," lots of training, and performance measures are what matter.