Management Theory + Technologies

Business Process Management (BPF) is the automation and coordination of the countless assets and tasks that make up your business processes. These assets and tasks can be internal or external to organizations. Effective BPM requires the coordination of people and information technology assets both inside your business and in your network of customers and partners.

The Business Integration solution should incorporate an enterprise-scale BPM, with powerful software that is capable of solving not just the challenges of automating routine tasks and exception handling scenarios, but also the challenges of orchestrating sophisticated and long-lived activities and transactions that involve people and systems across organizational and geographical boundaries.

• Total quality management

• Six Sigma

• Positioning in an Information Chain

• Systems Architecture (Architecture as Strategy)

• Application development

• Systems integration

• Vertical market focus

• Agile Architecture

• SOA

• Workflow

• Transaction management

• BPMN and Web services

BPM Strategy

Top-Down Path: Less common, but strong results

• Senior executive –visionary – business or IT source

• Sets new performance goals, improvements

• Everyone gets involved –target best opportunity

Bottom-Up Path: More typical, gradual results, may fade

• Local champion to gain specific benefit

• Targets are visible, short-term and doable

• Showcases results, sells across and up

BPM Process

Business Application Architecture

BPM and Enterprise Service Bus