Ebook Getting Started with Business Process Management
The set of ideas, tools, and techniques that deal with business processes, known in short as Business Process Management (BPM), has been around for a couple of decades. Even though forward-thinking professionals in business and IT recognize the importance of BPM, it does not get the mainstream attention it deserves. Large-scale ERP and client/server implementations absorb the attention of IT departments and distract the innovators. The underestimation of the importance of integration in connecting end-to-end business processes, coupled with proprietary application architectures, continues to make it difficult to realize the promise of BPM.
In the last couple of years, there has been an increasing recognition of the role played by integration, enterprise service-oriented architecture, and mature process management platform in creating agile business processes that confer competitive advantages. Companies are realizing that functional excellence and product commoditization are not sufficient to ensure customer centricity and innovation. Visionary executives consider the set of integrated capabilities that deal with the full lifecycle of business processes as the key to an accelerated evolution towards process maturity.
Two of the major roadblocks to adopting and implementing BPM are the lack of understanding of BPM, and not knowing how to get started. Understanding and implementing need not be sequential activities. It is critical to get started with BPM, since adoption and implementation will continuously enhance understanding. Most important, companies that make a beginning will realize that BPM’s expense and risk are several orders of magnitude lower than traditional IT development. In this whitepaper, you will learn about the different entry points for BPM, ways of ramping up process initiatives, organizational and cultural challenges that BPM practitioners face, and the critical success factors for BPM.
CoNTENTS
INTRoDUCTIoN
THE ELEMENTS oF BPM
CHALLENGES To BPM ADoPTIoN
ENTRY PoINTS FoR BPM ADoPTIoN
FIRST STEPS
TAKING ADVANTAGE oF BPM’S
FLEXIBILITY
SUMMARY
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