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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...
I think we would all agree that BPM and business architecture set out to overcome the issues associated with silos. And I think we would also agree that the problems associated with silos derive from...
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...

Focus BPM Projects On The Business, Not Technology
Business process management (BPM) projects are fundamentally different from IT projects. Rather than a fixed set of software deliverables with a predetermined end state, the outcome of a BPM project...
In the early part of next quarter, I am entering a research phase on a topic I have alluded to many times: techniques for Process Architecture. One of the key problems that BPM initiatives suffer...
Many business people still struggle to see the role of business processes in building better performance (i.e., business results). So I thought I would share this little hook that I developed within...
For most of the past year or so, I have been working on a set of research docs in parallel to my inquiry and consulting work at Forrester. And the results are finally becoming available on the...
Even experienced executives have difficulty in deciding on the right mix of strategic investments. Business architecture leaders can assist executives in making the right decisions through the use of...
Many business process and content and collaboration professionals, and the vendors that support them, think that dynamic case management (DCM) is a newfangled marketing term to describe an old,...

Manage The Politics To Reduce Risk To The Overall BPM Program
While technology is certainly an underlying component of a business process management (BPM) program, long-term success relies on getting executives to buy into business transformation and continuous...
Business process management (BPM) attempts to alleviate problems around productivity bottlenecks, customer channel integration, cycle time reduction, and customer service improvement. But while those...
Strategic Plan: The Business Architecture Playbook
This report is designed to help business architecture (BA) leaders construct a strategy meeting the needs of the organization's key stakeholders. Many organizations are reinventing or redesigning...

While you no doubt answered wellness, the reality is that when you look at the typical change programs in a major corporation today, Band-Aids are far more common. But that's hardly surprising...
And I must say I am particularly keen to get into the thick of it this year. We’ve got some really interesting ones coming up; in relatively quick order, I have three different IQPC events...
Continuous Improvement: The Customer Experience Ecosystem Playbook
Firms that seek to differentiate based on customer experience must transform the way their companies operate. Customer experience professionals have the tools required to guide this transformation,...

Should we include Be Informed in our shortlist of potential vendors?
Choosing the initial project carefully consistently ranks as one of the key factors dictating long-term BPM program success. The key issue is not so much a question of finding a compelling business...
Business process analysis (BPA) began as a separate market run by vendors that developed specialized tools, but a combination of forces is buffeting these vendors: Their markets withered during the...
Over the last few weeks, I have had a variety of conversations with clients that have centered around the scope for the term BPM. I think we all agree that BPM is not purely a technology...
Semantic Services Enable Better Dynamic Case Management
Netherlands-based Be Informed has developed something truly new in the business process management suites (BPMS) marketplace. At the heart of its dynamic case management (DCM) offering lies a...
Policy And Procedures: The Business Process Management Playbook
This report outlines the critical methods and techniques for business process management (BPM) initiatives. It represents a key component of Forrester's solution for BPM excellence. It is designed to...
Processes: The Business Architecture Playbook
Business architecture (BA) is the practice through which an organization adds analytical rigor to the planning and decision-making surrounding change. Whether changes are driven by competitive...

Firms are often challenged to undertake transformation at a grand scale — to sustain and scale BPM programs across the organization. All firms are at subtly different levels of maturity,...
Translate Strategic Intent Into Action With Structured Language
As firms embark on their business transformation journey, business process pros find themselves discussing a wide range of topics: program initiation and governance, executive engagement, process...