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These data charts present the results of Forrester's 2011 BPM Center Of Excellence Online Survey.
Twelve Trends Drive Planning For Customer-Centric Process Transformation
The fundamental business needs that drive the requirement for effective and efficient customer management practices remain unchanged for 2011: acquiring new customers; building tighter bonds of...
This tool is a self-test to determine how ready a company is to transform its application strategy by moving away from providing cost-effective systems of record and toward driving compelling user...

They Will Grow Twice As Fast As The Enterprise Application Market
Smart process apps are a new category of application software designed to support business activities that are people-intensive, highly variable, loosely structured, and subject to frequent change....

In today's cutthroat business world, enterprises struggle to respond to the changing needs of their customers while running efficient and effective operations and, at the same time, complying with an...
Skills And Staffing: The Business Process Management Playbook
Lack of sufficient business process skills continues to dog progress and momentum for enterprisewide business process management (BPM) initiatives. Yet when it comes to growing BPM skills, most...

This presentation provides some perspective on how integration tools have evolved over the past few years, resulting in significant functional overlap in many cases. It explains the simultaneous...
Business change management is a top corporate challenge. Changing people's beliefs and behaviors is demanding and difficult work; succeeding in the face of resistance, decreased productivity,...
Forrester recently conducted a deep dive into dynamic case management (DCM) usage by interviewing 50 companies implementing these solutions. Concurrently, we evaluated 10 DCM platforms for the...
Business Impact: The EA Method Playbook
This report outlines the business impact of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) executives who want to enhance their current EA method to address both agility and costs at the same...

Persistent Questions Business Process Pros Ask
The pace of continuous improvement and transformational change in business processes continues to accelerate, often outpacing employees' ability to keep up. In general, businesspeople don't embrace...
Landscape: The Business Process Management Playbook
Firms continue to invest massive amounts of money and time into improving their business processes. Why? Because of the imperative to optimize their business operations for their markets, even as...

The term "process" signifies different things to different people. At one end of the spectrum is a set of practices; at the other end, there are procedures. The term "procedure" describes a...
Wipro's Case Study Shows The Way
Forrester interviewed the executives responsible for the deployment of the Lean continuous improvement initiative at Wipro Technologies, a global supplier of technology services. The case study shows...
Move Deliberately, But Carefully, Toward Forrester's Vision For The Future Of Integration
Application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals need a foundation for recasting their integration strategies to meet 21st-century demands for business agility. Forrester's vision for...
