Thursday, June 19, 2008

Adaptability: The essence of BPM - best_practices_bpm.pdf


This article is about adaptive BPM. That BPM enables organizations to automate and manage processes while at the same time fostering adaptation. Adaptation falls into three major categories: 1. adapting to people and the continuous, ad hoc changes in their work patterns;
2. adapting to the ecosystem which includes front-office and back-office applications;
3. adapting to change itself.

To enable adaptive BPM, process artifacts need to be extracted, so they can be changed by business analysts and IT without recourse to coding. The goal is to empower business users to own more and more of these artifacts and free-up IT to focus on the core infrastructure, providing a balanced division of labor and responsibility that optimizes the skills of both roles. This concept is illustrated in the diagram:

The result of that kind of architecture is the reduction of the cost of process automation and the prolonged lifetime of automated processes that can adapt in a way that provides enduring value, avoids obsolescence and generates a long-term return-on-investment.
If You want to know something more about the Roles, Rules, and the rest of artifacts shown on the diagram plz, read the article.

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