By: Peter Fingar, Executive Partner, Greystone Group
As the industrial age emerged, it was the marshalling of capital that reigned supreme. Capital-intensive mass production led to such success that the barons, the Carnegies, Fords and Rockefellers, are household names to this day. Then as the making of things became widespread, attracting competitors from across the globe, capital-enabled mass production was no longer sufficient. Market differentiation became the magic sauce of success. Manufacturers began to segment markets and add features to their products to appeal to those market segments.
Contributed by:Andrew Spanyi, Faculty Member, DBizInstitute.org and Managing Director,
Spanyi International
By: Andrew Spanyi, Managing Director, Spanyi International
OK – so you're ready to deploy BPM for improved performance. Maybe you've even identified a candidate business process where the application of BPM principles, practices and technology is likely to yield business benefit.
So what should you do if you want to optimize your chances of success? First of all, in spite of what some might say, don't start with technology! Starting with technology is most likely to result in the situation 'Ready, Fire, Aim.
Sure – technology is the key enabler – but it is just that – an enabler.
While they sound the same on the surface, BPM software solutions don't all do the same thing. Each offering is optimized for a specific set of processes, integration requirements, human interface requirements, exception handling requirements, and performance management requirements, and each makes specific assumptions about the roles and required skills of process designers. Using illustrations from leading BPM offerings, this talk shows how to find the software that fits your particular needs.
By: Jon Huntress, Special Events Correspondent, BPM Institute
Featuring: Bill Chambers, Principal Analyst, Doculabs
Companies of all sizes can benefit from effective business process management. Emerging BPM standards are designed to improve relationships between customers and suppliers, to identify new opportunities for organization growth and to turn value chain choreography into a competitive advantage. This presentation will cover:
Also Featuring: Rajiv Bawa, Business Area Executive, Software as a Service IBM Global Small and Medium Business
Those four little words, "Quick Return on Investment", can now be music to your ears. Hear from the experts at IBM and Nsite about how the Software as a Service model is taking off and providing companies with a much faster, more cost-effective and more flexible solution with less risk.
ASAP is a web services protocol that can be used to access a generic service that might take a long time to complete - for example services that last from minutes to months in duration. The service being invoked might be fully automated, a manual task that a person performs, or any mixture of the two. This capability to handle both automated and manual activities is what makes ASAP particularly suited for B2B and intra-organizational service request scenarios.
Round Table particpants asked Tom their most pressing process questions in this Round Table "Ask The Experts with Tom Davenport". Tom is the Renowned Author and Professor, Institute for Process Management at Babson College.
There are multiple types of integration problems. Information integration problems pertain to the class of problems where users need access to disparate data through the lens of the needs of business. This session will discuss a methodology and a case study of an approach toward information integration by associating common business vernacular with key pieces of data and processes.
In an effort to simplify their IT architectures and optimize systems company-wide, many businesses are standardizing on a single content- management platform for document management, Web-content management, imaging, intranet publishing, and E-mail management. Such a move requires that companies carefully consider the ways in which they organize information and how employees use documents.
