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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?”. Make Metrics Visible and Accessible – Having workers, managers, supervisors, and executives see metrics helps employees make decisions and take action.

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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. I suggest starting with a small group of executives/managers who know the work of the department or division. (If Want to learn more about BPM metrics? A Macro Map can help. How do you Build a Macro Map? About the Author.

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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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Avoid the Improvement Hype Cycle

Harvard Business Review

An executive decides on a different and better way to do things, and prepares a sales pitch that goes something like this: First: "We need to change. Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.)

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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). Most missionaries of the BPM religion come from a heritage in information technology.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business Review

Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). BPM reflected the interactions of different stakeholders, from product creation through supply chain to final assembly. How organizations are changing.