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Macro Maps Help You Align Processes and Strategy

Strategy Driven

I suggest starting with a small group of executives/managers who know the work of the department or division. (If Some organizations create a Business Architecture graphic to show how business strategy, functions, processes, technology and data relate. Want to learn more about BPM metrics? How do you Build a Macro Map?

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Five Coaching Tips to Help Business Process Management Leaders Succeed

Strategy Driven

But those leaders have had training and experience to succeed in a traditional organization with a C-suite at the top and siloed business units and functions under each executive. The question is, do your executives have the skills and experience to lead a cross-functional process focused organization? What’s in it for Me?

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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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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business Review

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. 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). How organizations are changing.

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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.