Combining Business Process Management And Enterprise Architecture For Better Business Outcomes

This IBM® Redbooks® publication explains how to combine business process management (BPM) and Enterprise Architecture (EA) for better business outcomes. This book provides a unique synergistic approach to BPM and EA, based on a firm understanding of the life cycles of the enterprise and the establishment of appropriate collaboration and governance processes. When carried out together, BPM provides the business context, understanding, and metrics, and EA provides the discipline to translate business vision and strategy into architectural change. Both are needed for sustainable continuous improvement. This book provides thought leadership and direction on the topic of BPM and EA synergies. Although technical in nature, it is not a typical IBM Redbooks publication. The book provides guidance and direction on how to collaborate effectively across tribal boundaries rather than technical details about IBM software products. The primary audience for this book is leaders and architects who need to understand how to effectively combine BPM and EA to drive, as a key differentiator, continuous improvement and transformational change with enterprise scope.

This IBM® Redbooks® publication explains how to combine business process management (BPM) and Enterprise Architecture (EA) for better business outcomes. This book provides a unique synergistic approach to BPM and EA, based on a firm understanding of the life cycles of the enterprise and the establishment of appropriate collaboration and governance processes. When carried out together, BPM provides the business context, understanding, and metrics, and EA provides the discipline to translate business vision and strategy into architectural change. Both are needed for sustainable continuous improvement. This book provides thought leadership and direction on the topic of BPM and EA synergies. Although technical in nature, it is not a typical IBM Redbooks publication. The book provides guidance and direction on how to collaborate effectively across tribal boundaries rather than technical details about IBM software products. The primary audience for this book is leaders and architects who need to understand how to effectively combine BPM and EA to drive, as a key differentiator, continuous improvement and transformational change with enterprise scope.

Business Processes are one of the critical drivers for any organisation in realizing their organizational strategic objectives. This means that management must constantly review and realign organizational processes to reflect the massively unfixed nature of business demands, such as changing market circumstances; the changing demands of new customer and existing customers; new products and pricing; changes in strategy; and linking processes to new partners and suppliers. Establishing and maintaining a process-focused organization is critical as organizations are pressured to keep achieving further growth and profitability, preferably in double digits, whilst the avenues available for achieving this growth are getting more and more restricted due to legislation, global competition and saturation in the market place. This highly accessible book provides a clear and thorough exposition of the six key dimensions necessary for the creation of a process-focused organization: * process governance * strategic alignment * methods (execution/implementation) * people * culture * technology. Each of these critical Dimensions are given a systematic and revealing treatment, examining each Dimension in terms of: * Importance * Key trends in this area * Elements that comprise the dimension * Detailed description of the elements that comprise the ideal or visionary position * Road map of how to get there from various starting positions.

The Complete Business Process Handbook: Extended Business Process Management is ideal for visionaries, subject matter experts, researchers, and academics who focus on the analysis, design, and modelling of tomorrow ́s enterprise. This book offers the insight around extended business process design and management, covering ground-breaking new research on BPM best practices, LEADing practices, and outperformers vs. underperformers. The book aims to increase understanding of and help avoid common pitfalls that lead to failed BPM projects, and ultimately, poor BPM adoption by including the latest research in business modelling related to BPM aspects. Authors and editors Mark von Rosing and Henrik von Scheel, along with several noted and influential contributors, provide a link between the business model and process model by helping the reader to discover how to link the strategy, critical success factors, and performance drivers to ones processes. With an in-depth look at extended BPM ontology, the audience will encounter enhanced process modelling capabilities to enable an entirely new way of working with processes, along with how to combine Enterprise Architecture & BPM. Teaches users about business process management (BPM) and how to get started Provides extensive information on BPM processes and frameworks, methods, and approaches to implement BPM Gives real-world best practices and leading practice examples of award-winning industry leaders and innovators Presents common pitfalls that can lead to failed BPM projects, and ultimately, poor BPM adoption

This textbook provides organisational leadership with an understanding of business process management and its benefits to an organisation. It provides a practical framework, complete with a set of tools and techniques, to successfully implement business process management projects.

A collection of articles and essays to help you understand why Business Process Management is important to you and what you need to think about to be successful. The book is a manager or business oriented technology persons guide.

This easy-to-use guide provides a practical framework, complete with a set of tools and techniques, to successfully implement business process management projects. This edition includes checklists of all phases and steps, summaries of tools per phase, and an overview of business process trends.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 6th Working Conference on Practice-Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation (PRET), held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, on June 6, 2013, co-located with the Enterprise Transformation Track of the 21st European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). Successful enterprises have well-defined managerial responsibilities and understandable project priorities and enable their processes to be sufficiently agile, even improvisational and continuously changing. They do not solely rely on only mechanistic or purely organic processes and structures, but see enterprise transformation as a combination of deliberate and organic change. This year's papers represent this hybrid view. Moreover, most of them are based on practical cases, which will further contribute to our understanding of enterprise transformation. The eight papers presented in this volume were allocated to tracks on: practical experiences with methods and techniques; cases in enterprise transformation; and enterprise architecture in practice.