Best Practices in BPM.

There is another issue that is worth spending a while on analyzing - Business Process Management (name of the PDF file with article: best_practices_bpm.pdf).

The emphasis on using BPM tools is increasing and this is connected with disappearance of the traditional business intelligence vendors.

The evolution of business lead to better understanding of how much more agile it can become using BPM technology. But why isn't BPM used by companies while developing very big projects? I found out that if there are going to be only 'short term wins', then BPM shouldn't be implemented...

Next question - how much of BPM has to do with management principles and human interactivity with the business activity and how much of it is technology-driven?

The answer can also be found in the article. Now, BPM is a management
discipline, but in order to realize it properly, you need technology.

Moreover, strategy, analysis and execution as well as the gaps that exist across
these functions are emphasized too.

Gaps that have been described:

1. Strategy silo.
The strategy silo should ideally align and collaborate with the analysis and execution silos, but most often it doesn't and we end up with small silos which only create additional chaos.

2. Analysis & opimization silo.
3. Execution silo.

With the second and the third one, situation is similar, but analysis and optimizaion silo is probably the most dangerous of the three of them.

Fortunately, they can be closed by using right techniques, such as standardizing enterprise modeling technology, selecting the right business process
analysis tool or selecting the right business process management suite.

The rest of the document gives some info about process improvement, pushing BPM to the limits (because nowadays some BPM suites become too slow) or optimizing the publishing workflow. The stress is also put on separation of business operations and IT which takes place in many organizations. Some inconsistent agendas, vocabularies, policies and rules still are a kind of nightmare for them.

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