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Business Process Management is a Team Sport: Play it to Win!

Author: Andrew Spanyi, Managing Director, Spanyi International

The idea for this book was born a couple of years ago when I was struck, once again, by the fact that the existing literature on business process management did not sufficiently address the need to integrate business process thinking with strategy, organizational structure and people issues. At that time, I intended to write the book in a traditional format.

I had almost completed the first draft when I repeatedly heard several senior internal consultants and middle managers complain that when it came to enterprise business process management, their senior leaders simply didn’t get it.

Book Review: Applied SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture and Design Strategies

Reviewed by Tom Dwyer, Editorial Board Member, SOAInstitute.org

There is no shortage of books that cover SOA topics, but few of them go beyond background information, telling us what a service is and what technologies we can use to network them, but leaving us on our own to figure out how to identify or design a service. Fewer still go into the design of SOA solutions for the enterprise. I’m happy to report that this book is a welcome exception.

You're probably familiar with several of the authors already. Lead author Mike Rosen is Editorial Director for SOAInstitute.org, and co-authors Boris Lublinksy and Kevin T. Smith have written articles and spoken at SOAInstitute.org events. For this book, they are also joined by Marc J. Balcer.

The Decision Model

Free chapter courtesy of: Larry Goldberg and Barbara von Halle

Chapter 4: Changing the Game: BPM and BDM

Because business logic is such an important but overlooked business asset, the Decision Model delivers significant value to all activities that involve important business decisions. Therefore, the Decision Model's impact is significantly wide-spanning business and IT projects and strategic to operational business issues. This chapter presents insights into the impact that the Decision Model has had on BPM and BDM and some insights into the future.

BPMN Method and Style

Free chapter courtesy of: Bruce Silver

Creating business process models that can be shared effectively across the business - and between business and IT - demands more than a digest of BPMN shapes and symbols. It requires a step-by-step methodology for going from zero to a complete process model. It also requires consistent application of a modeling style, so that the modeler's meaning is clear from the diagram itself. Author Bruce Silver explains not only the meaning and proper usage of the entire BPMN 2.0 palette, but calls out the working subset that you really need to know. He also reveals the hidden assumptions of core concepts left unexplained in the spec, the key to BPMN's deeper meaning.

Implementing SOA: Total Architecture in Practice

Free chapter courtesy of: Paul C. Brown, author of "Implementing SOA: Total Architecture in Practice"

If you are an architect responsible for a service-oriented architecture (SOA) in an enterprise, you face many challenges. Whether intended or not, the architecture you create defines the structure of your enterprise at many different levels, from business processes down to data storage. It defines the boundaries between organizational units as well as between business systems. Your architecture must go beyond defining services and provide practical solutions for a host of complex distributed system design problems, from orchestrating business processes to ensuring business continuity. Implementing your architecture will involve many projects over an extended period, and your guidance will be required.

Download the free chapter from "Implementing SOA: Total Architecture in Practice" today.

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Service Oriented Architecture with Java

Free chapter courtesy of: Vincenzo Caselli, Binildas A. Christudas, and Malhar Barai, co-authors of "Service Oriented Architecture with Java"

Using SOA and web services to build powerful Java applications.

  • Build effective SOA applications with Java Web Services
  • Quick reference guide with best-practice design examples
  • Understand SOA concepts from core with examples
  • Design scalable inter-enterprise communication

Download Chapter 4 complimentary below (PDF) from "Service Oriented Architecture with Java".

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Business Agility: Sustainable Prosperity in a Relentlessly Competitive World

Free chapter courtesy of: Michael Hugos, author of "Business Agility: Sustainable Prosperity in a Relentlessly Competitive World"

Our interconnected world economy behaves like a huge stock market, and the volatility that comes with this makes the traditional business focus on efficiency less effective because it requires a level of predictability that no longer exists. In our high change, real-time economy responsiveness trumps efficiency. The profits from responsiveness are the basis for sustainable prosperity in this century.

Agile and responsive organizations are structured as networks of autonomous business units that harness the power of three self-adjusting feedback loops to respond appropriately as conditions change and new opportunities arise.

Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL

Free chapter courtesy of: Matjaz B. Juric and Kapil Pant, co-authors of "Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL"

Modeling business processes for SOA and developing end-to-end IT support for these processes have become top IT priorities for many organisation. The SOA approach is based services and on processes. Processes are focused on composition of services and in that sense services become process activities.

This book - released on August 28, 2008 - will show you how to bridge this gap. It describes a pragmatic approach to business process modeling using the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) and the automatic mapping of BPMN to the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), which is the de-facto standard for executing business processes in SOA. The book will also cover related technologies such as Business Rules Management and Business Activity Monitoring, which play a pivotal role in achieving closed-loop Business Process Management.

Download the complimentary book chapter below (PDF): "Modeling Business Processes for SOA" and save 15%.

Smart (Enough) Systems

Free chapter courtesy of: James Taylor and Neil Raden, co-authors of "Smart (Enough) Systems"

Today's business trends are driving organizations to build systems smart enough to cope with the demands of a more complex world. As a result, organizations must automate and improve far more of the decisions underpinning day-to-day business operations. They must treat these decisions as a corporate asset in the same way they treat their data as one -perhaps even more so. These decisions are too numerous and cumulatively too important to be handled in an ad hoc manner. Decisions (or at least the definition of a good decision) change rapidly and influence your organization's behavior. A new systematic approach called enterprise decision management is needed.

Download "Enterprise Decision Management" from "Smart Enough Systems" (2007) by thought leaders James Taylor and Neil Raden to learn more.

The Project Meeting Facilitator

Free chapter courtesy of: Tammy Adams, co-author of "The Project Meeting Facilitator"
Facilitation Skills to Make the Most of Project Meetings

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN INVOLVED in a project that didn't require a meeting? Neither have we. Project meetings provide a forum for exchanging information, coming up with new ideas or alternatives, making decisions, validating work products, or just learning how to work better together. They can occur on a regular basis or on the spur of the moment. They may involve two people or thirty. But regardless, project meetings are intended to achieve results. And most times you, the project manager, are expected to make it happen - whether you've had facilitation experience or not. So in Section One, we'll give you some guidelines, insights, tool, and techniques to help you make any meeting you lead more productive.

There are always more project meetings than time. Wouldn't it be nice if you could maximize your effort by...

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