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Innovations in Business Process Thinking
Explore how modern trends in just-in-time manufacturing, business process reengineering, workflow management tools, and the emergence of service-oriented architecture (SOA), LANs, and the Internet have created a perfect storm enabling radical new forms of business processes. This report examines the history of business process thinking, why business process modeling is so important, how to unify business process modeling (BPM) and SOA, and how to create business process solutions that are both innovative and adaptable.
In a world some people call "hypercompetitive" -- with little time to rest on one's laurels -- it is increasingly difficult to achieve sustainable competitive advantage without world-class, integrated business processes. But getting from today's inefficient and fragmented processes to tomorrow's integrated and well-defined business processes involves a fair amount of chaos and pain.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Business Process Modeling Fundamentals by Ken Orr. Discover the key concepts and strategies involved in business process innovation; explore the major threads of business process thinking and the diagrams/tools used in modeling; and get tips for avoiding business process (re)modeling failure.
Chapter 2: Integrating BPM and SOA: The Emerging Role of OMG and MDA by Michael K. Guttman and John H. Parodi. Leverage the Object Management Group's Model Driven Architecture (MDA) to help unify BPM and SOA. Understand how the BPM, SOA, and MDA paradigms are likely to converge in the near future and where and when to step into that process.
Chapter 3: The Key to SOA Governance: Understanding the Essence of Business by Keith Swenson. Learn how to combine BPM and Enterprise Service Bus to create processes that can easily be deployed by IT while leveraging your existing systems and infrastructure without significant rework.
Chapter 4: Business Process Management: A Broken Promise or the Building Blocks of Modern Enterprise Architecture? Introduction by Bartosz Kiepuszewski
Sections:
- Enterprise Architecture: Business Process Management, SOA and MDSD by Michael Hartges, Dirk Krafzig, Michael Kunz, Florian Mösch, Dirk Slama, and Thomas Stahl. Discover how business process management supports T-Mobile in its efforts to innovate by rethinking and simplifying processes.
- Adaptive Process Management Architecture: Enabling Enterprise Innovation by Borys Stokalski and Marcin Strozanski. Explore the four key capabilities that constitute the adaptive process automation frameworks and how to partner SOA with business rules to enable enterprise innovation.
- Is Business Process Management Ready for Prime Time? Lessons from a Proof of Concept by Olivier Brousseau. Hear how Schlumberger, a multimillion-dollar oilfield services company, put six vendors of business process management suites through their paces -- and found them all wanting.
- Business Process Management: Defining the Basics for Success by Mark Fung-A-Fat. Learn how the Massachusetts Medical Society successfully implemented a business process management strategy to manage processes as diverse as its online e-commerce business flows to its time-off request process.
- All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Selecting the Right Tool for Your Business Process Management Needs by Nick Russell, Wil M.P. van der Aalst, and Arthur H.M. ter Hofstede. Discover how to use workflow patterns to benchmark the capabilities of business process management technology offerings to select the tool that's best for your organization.
Chapter 5: Business Modeling and Analytics by Brian J. Dooley. Sidestep the confusion created by modeling convergence, as process models are merged with models created to chart data for software development and again with analytic models used to predict outcomes of processes under a given set of conditions.
This report will also provide you with six evaluation criteria to assess the strengths and weaknesses of business process management suite vendors, and help you avoid falling into the trap of thinking there is only one right business process solution.
Finally, you'll explore common business process management misconceptions, and get steps that will lead you toward success, including better understanding your business imperatives before choosing a business process management solution, identifying mandatory and desired capabilities, establishing satisfaction criteria, benchmarking potential solutions, and choosing the right tool for your organization.
Authors: Olivier Brousseau, Brian J. Dooley, Mark Fung-A-Fat, Michael K. Guttman, Michael Hartges, Arthur H.M. ter Hofstede, Bartosz Kiepuszewski, Dirk Krafzig, Michael Kunz, Florian Mösch, Ken Orr, John H. Parodi, Nick Russell, Dirk Slama, Thomas Stahl, Borys Stokalski, Marcin Strózanski, Keith Swenson, and Wil M.P. van der Aalst
Published: December 2007, 170 pages, PDF format
