Seeking operational excellence, leading companies are integrating and optimizing end-to-end business processes spanning functional silos and crossing traditional IT systems' boundaries. In addition to requiring a good integration strategy this trend is forcing companies to adopt process orientation and explore Business Process Management as a technology to orchestrate, optimize and increase the flexibility of critical business processes.
As long as the BPM conversation is restricted to technologists and BPM insiders, it’s likely to become just another technique for squeezing out costs and making incremental performance improvements. On the other hand, for some early pioneers where the conversation has reached the board room, BPM portends much more. Indeed, there is a Next Big Thing in business, but it's not just about technology and incremental improvement; it's about operational transformation, driven by the emergence of a wired, flat world.
The volatile nature of today's business and regulatory environments is driving organizations to address process-change head on. The financial services industry is no exception. Business processes have traditionally required manual intervention, thus missing the mark in achieving true straight-through processing.
Featuring: Thomas White, Logistics Management Division, NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center uses more than $525 million of technical and administrative accountable government property in the performance of its mission. The Logistics Management Division has responsibility for establishing tracking controls for this property through its entire life cycle using bar code technology and the NASA Equipment Management System (NEMS) central database, to include newly purchased equipment; fabricated equipment; user account inventories; user transfers and loans; shipping controls; and equipment excess, reutilization, schools donations and property sales.
NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center uses more than $525 million of technical and administrative accountable government property in the performance of its mission. The Logistics Management Division has responsibility for establishing tracking controls for this property through its entire life cycle using bar code technology and the NASA Equipment Management System (NEMS) central database, to include newly purchased equipment; fabricated equipment; user account inventories; user transfers and loans; shipping controls; and equipment excess, reutilization, schools donations and property sales.
By: Peter Fingar, Executive Partner, Greystone Group
What do GE, JetBlue Airways, Progressive Insurance, Amazon and the Virgin Group have in common? By making deep structural changes--made possible by business process innovation--these companies have transformed the very ways they operate their businesses, changing the game in their industries. Indeed, there's a new breed of fierce competitors on the block ready to engage your company in extreme competition. Are you ready?
Why is it that, given two companies with approximately the same capital assets and same number of skilled employees, one struggles and the other grows profits?
By: Jon Huntress, Special Events Correspondent, BPM Institute
The Goddard Space Flight Center at NASA uses more than $525 million of technical and administrative accountable government property in the performance of its mission.
Business Process Management improves business and IT alignment by converting business requirements into IT implementations. Join us in this webinar to learn about new trends in Business Process Management and how you can benefit from business process integration. You'll also learn how to model and compose portable business processes on top of heterogeneous applications using Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) with Oracle BPEL Process Manager and Popkin software.
There is significant increased interest in applying Business Process Management (BPM) technology to solve business problems. Not surprisingly, an increasing number of technical and business people alike are asking how to take BPM applications to the next level. This presentation will outline the pros and cons of the two principal methods of taking BPM from small-scale departmental applications to enterprise level applications; the bubble-up and the enterprise-view approaches. The following aspects of each approach will be addressed: scope of effort, key considerations, benefits and pitfalls.
Comprehensive process design is the foundation for improved efficiencies in process management practices. Aligning the IT Portfolio to the Business Strategy helps deliver value to the business and support an agile enterprise.