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Report:The Strategic Language Of Transformation Unlocks The Power Of BPM, Part 2

Business process pros need to engage their business colleagues throughout business process management (BPM) projects; flow diagrams alone are not good enough. By understanding and adopting the...

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Report:Forrester's Business Capability Portfolio Assessment: Tool

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...

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Report:How To Start A BPM Program And Engage The Business

As with any major organizational change program, gaining BPM traction in the business relies on engagement. This includes ensuring executive support for the BPM initiative. Selecting the right...

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Report:How To Identify A Suitable BPM Project

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...

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Report:Focus On The Transformational Impact Of Business Architecture

Business Impact: The Business Architecture Playbook

This report outlines the business impact of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) executives working on business architecture. This report is designed to help you align the strategic...

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Report:The Strategic Language Of Transformation Unlocks The Power Of BPM, Part 1

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...

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Tool:Assess Each Process Area, Tabulating The CSFs, Maturity, And Complexity

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Blog:Getting The Mix Right

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...

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Report:How To Approach BPM Projects

For long-term success, the business, rather than IT, should drive and own BPM programs (unless, of course, the processes under consideration are IT's internal processes). BPM initiatives deliver...

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Blog:“Tis The Season For Events, Tra Le Lal Le La La Lah”

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...

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Report:The Secret To Managing BPM Risk, Part 2

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...

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Tool:Managing BPM Program Risk Is Part Of The Transformational Journey

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Blog:The Evolving Role Of Business Architecture

Business architecture has become a bit of a watchword for organizations thinking about their future. It’s about all sorts of things – the “what” we do and “why” we...

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Blog:Groupthink And The Problems Of Silos

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...

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Report:BPM Basics

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...

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Blog:Which Mountain Are You Trying To Climb?

When I look at the sorts of advisory work we engage in, I am often struck by the fact that our client organizations are at very different start points on their business architecture journeys. The...

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Report:Reflections From A BPM Thought Leader: Phil Gilbert, IBM

Forrester Research is launching a limited number of discussions with business process management (BPM) thought leaders; this is the first of the series. Given that BPM suites (BPMSes) verge on a...

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Report:Develop A Stakeholder-Focused Business Architecture Strategy

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...

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Report:The Secret To Managing BPM Risk, Part 1

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...

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Blog:Have Your Cake And Eat It Too!

  How can your firm deliver great, loyalty-inspiring customer experience – and achieve its efficiency objectives? Firms that want to boost Return on Equity (ROE) or Return on Capital...

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Blog:What Does Your Organizational Weave Look Like?

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,...

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Report:How To Develop The Business Case For BPM Projects And BPM Programs

Developing a BPM business case differs from a traditional IT project because of the continuous improvement approach that BPM introduces. As such, the business case must be developed and enhanced in...

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Report:The Shifting Market For Business Process Analysis Tools

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...

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Tool:The Discipline Of BPM Implies Developing A Framework Of Methods

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Blog:Band-Aids Or Wellness Program - Which One Will Help You Survive?

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...