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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. With proper business process management implementation, you’ll have the ability to manage an array of business changes that constantly transpire.

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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 core purpose is the identification and implementation of the optimized process that ideally meets the expected requirements as per the strategic business needs.

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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?”. So you need to discuss that with the Process Owner and Executive Sponsor. Want to learn more about BPM metrics? Are we doing things right?

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Macro Maps Help You Align Processes and Strategy

Strategy Driven

When organizations first start doing process improvement they use a myriad of ways to decide which processes to improve first, such as: IT bought some software and needs to install it, so let’s look at the current process first. A department wants to improve the process because it would help in a key initiative.

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HR should be at the heart of process improvement

Chartered Management Institute

I wrote recently about the importance of placing people at the heart of your process improvement efforts and avoiding the trap of focusing on technology. Regular HBR contributor Brad Power believes that HR are kingmakers of any process improvement effort. Does your HR team drive organisational development? Randy said.

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Social Media Can Play a Role in Business Process Management

Harvard Business Review

Too often, old, legacy processes prevent companies from having that agility. Fortunately, social media offers us a chance to improve the communications supporting process improvement. Leading organizations are already using the power of social media to shape their business process management (BPM) agendas.

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5 Early Warning Signals for a BPI Project

Strategy Driven

Can you recognize the early warning signals that derail a business process improvement project? Many articles have been written about what makes process improvement projects fail and usually they list critical success factors. But the real question is how do you recognize the leading indicators in a process? Having no charter.

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