Strategy Driven

APRIL 16, 2014

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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Strategy Driven

JUNE 26, 2014

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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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 6, 2012

Whilst the improvement of process is a mature activity, with methods such as lean, six sigma and BPM decades old. Continuous improvement is one of those areas that no organisation can afford to overlook. You are not watching this post, click to start watching read more

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Chartered Management Institute

MARCH 22, 2012

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. Adi Gaskell is Head of Online at the Process Excellence Network.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

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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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 24, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Brad Power for the Harvard Business Review blog (March 7, 2011). To read the complete article, check out other articles and resources, and/or sign up for a free subscription to Harvard Business Review’s Daily Alerts, please click here. * * * When they set out to [.].

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

The question is, do your executives have the skills and experience to lead a cross-functional process focused organization? This blog focuses on how to motivate, engage, and coach the Executive Sponsor and Process Owner during a Business Process Improvement (BPI) project. The Process Owner is oriented inward toward the process.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 12, 2024

The innovations are endless, from peer-to-peer payments to automated portfolio managers and trading platforms. Streamlined processes lead to cost savings over time, while real-time data insights help leaders to make informed choices. Streamlining business processes is a critical component of any enterprise.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 24, 2014

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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The result: Employees get confused and cynical (senior management's "flavor of the month"). New process improvement initiatives tend to start with some hype. Finally: "This may sound like process improvement programs that failed here before, but believe me, this is much better. Under the guidance of external coaches, the $7.2

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

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). That is, they try to build continuous improvement into their DNA.

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Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

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). yagi studio/Getty Images.

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Methodologies abound to help organisations achieve process excellence, be that through lean, six sigma or BPM. The findings chime with recent research by the Process Excellence Network, revealing that poor employee engagement was the single biggest barrier to adopting best practice, as voted for by 47% of respondants.

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