Product Description

Business processes are the production lines of the new economy. When they fail us, our products and services fail our customers, and our business fails its owners. The more businesses change, the more they must concern themselves with their stakeholder relationships and manage their processes so that technologies and organization designs have a common business purpose. This book shows you how to deliver integral processes and helps you build a fully process-managed enterprise.
The Process Management Framework provides the strategic guidance and tactical steps to make the switch. Encompassing eight phases, the Framework migrates organizational and process transformation through strategy, design, realization, and actual operations. For each phase, this book provides detailed descriptions of the steps, their inputs, outputs, guides, and enablers, as well as the tricks, traps, and best practices learned by experienced practitioners. It also covers the related disciplines of managing programs, risk, quality, projects, and human change, and how process management is the key to ensure a fit among all these areas. For those of you about to embark on a process journey, this book provides a compelling call to action, a guide for management, and an invaluable reference.
Learn the concepts and transform your business!

• See why process management is an inevitable trend that won't go away.
• Understand why relationship management needs effective processes to work.
• Define your stakeholders and determine their needs.
• Discover what other organizations have done to manage processes successfully.
• Explore a complete framework for managing business, process, and human change.
• Apply your knowledge to manage process projects effectively and efficiently.
• Learn what to do and what to avoid in every step.
• Develop processes to align technology, organization, and facility transformation.
• Gain cross-organizational acceptance of process and personal change.
• Anticipate objections and proactively manage stakeholder concerns.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #413388 in Books
• Published on: 2001-05-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

From the Back Cover

While companies realize the need for change, they have not yet developed clear implementation strategies. This book guides managers and NBA-seekers through the transition from the traditional "offline" ways of doing business to incorporating e-commerce and the Internet as a business tool to interact and transact. Topics include:

* Business Cycles and Rules
* Globalization
* Corporate Consolidation
* Stakeholder Communication
* Value Chains
* Knowledge Management
* Organizational Structures

About the Author

Roger T. Burlton, the founder of Process Renewal Group (http://www.processrenewal.com), is considered a pioneer and industry leader in the introduction of innovative processes for organizational change. He is recognized internationally for his contributions in business process re-engineering, prototyping, rapid development and people-based project management methodologies. He has chaired several high profile conferences on advanced information management around the world, including National BPR Conference, the European Process and Knowledge Management Symposium, DCI's Knowledge Management Conference, and Software World.

Customer Reviews

Too old fashioned
This book provides an interesting framework but lacks the modern thinking of the Third Wave by Smith and Fingar and contains more of the old Business Process Reengineering stuff

Getting the Business Value from BPM
As a Trainer and Consultant in the Business process space it is important to read as widely as possible. This can often be a chore, but in the case of this book it was a real pleasure. Roger really focusses in on getting the Business Architecture right first and then drilling down into process. As with so many books this too can be viewed as several books in one. The first 1/3 or so is great reading for any manager involved in helping their organization move to being process based. The framework suggested is readily useable by all organizations. then the book does get a little more technical and might lose the business readers, but provides valuable resource and insight for analysts involved in process improvement.

An enjoyable read and well worth the time it takes to do so.

A Business Process Management toolkit must have.
Rogers new book is notable for a number of reasons. It presents the subject of Business Process Management with a practical 'can do' approach that will appeal to organisation leaders and practitioners alike. It's direct style is accessible and provides a framework which leads both the reader and the BPM implementer through a tried and tested approach harnessing people, process and technology.

This is a definite must have in your BPM toolkit.