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Managing a Remote Team: 12 Best Practices for Better Productivity

Strategy Driven

To ascertain staff productivity in teams that are scattered across various locations, below are twelve best practices to effectively manage a mobile/remote workforce: 1. For open-source developers, there’s GitHub , where they can collaborate on, review and manage code. Measure productivity. Embrace flexibility. Choose security.

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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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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. Then list the core products or services delivered by the department. Now identify the processes that produce the core products. Then identify the processes that support the delivery of the core products. A Macro Map can help.

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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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Social Media Can Play a Role in Business Process Management

Harvard Business Review

Leading organizations are already using the power of social media to shape their business process management (BPM) agendas. Organizations' IT departments can use social media to communicate with the engineering department as it works on new products, often creating a tighter feedback loop than previously existed.

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Avoid the Improvement Hype Cycle

Harvard Business Review

Thus, today we have a number of process "religions": Statistical Process Control was followed by Total Quality Management, Business Reengineering, Six Sigma, Lean, and Business Process Management (BPM, which emphasizes process management software).

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Warning: Your best practices stink

Chartered Management Institute

Methodologies abound to help organisations achieve process excellence, be that through lean, six sigma or BPM. The survey, conducted by Fierce Inc, found that best practices in areas such as professional development failed in their goal of helping employees.