Category Archives: Business Process Improvement

BPM Process Automation


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How Low Can You Go? – Part II – BPM Essentials


This article explores the contribution of a methodology called BPM (Business Process Management) to the “management of work” and lists essential features for background BPM services at Cases.  BPM is core to workflow. It also contributes, to an extent, to … Continue reading

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Process Improvement – Under the Hood


Here’s the deal . . . You are in a corporation that 1) “thinks” BPM, 2) has mapped processes, 3) has a run-time workflow\workload Case platform, where Cases have declared objectives, 4) has non-subjective means of assessing progress toward meeting … Continue reading

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2016 Recap – Basic Requirements for Success with BPM


Once again, with minor updates/consolidations,  . . . . here is my list of basic requirements for Success with BPM. 1. Some of the work to be performed involves the performance of tasks in logical sequence. 2. The work will … Continue reading

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Where are the ‘Easy’ buttons in BPM?


If you are looking for success with BPM, there are, by my count, 19 hurdles. Different consultants use different approaches, their approaches are effective within some customer cultures/not so effective in others, the tools used by the consultant and the … Continue reading

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Mini-firestorm at BPM.COM


The question of the week at BPM.com was http://bpm.com/bpm-today/in-the-forum/what-is-the-best-way-to-build-an-executable-process-model What Is the Best Way to Build an Executable Process Model? From a comment E. Scott Menter made on this discussion where he wrote: “Flowcharts (including IMHO BPMN) are simply not … Continue reading

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What Predictive Analytics Can Do For You!


If you are responsible for managing a business, the maturity level you want to get to is one where staff receives advanced decision support from your business management system. Here is how you can use the “Easy” button to improve … Continue reading

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Why are we still having problems in the area of Healthcare software?


The point was made in a recent LinkedIn HIMSS discussion group “At what point does an EHR implementation become too large an endeavor?” My response was this happens at the time you pick a bad EHR “solution”.   The usual outcome … Continue reading

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How to fund process improvement initiatives


Every organization has processes, the processes are either documented or undocumented. They may exist only in the minds of workers or be on paper, online, or in-line. Every organization has “best practices”. In the absence of any declared best practices, … Continue reading

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What’s your action plan for BPM for 2015?


We all understand that organizations need best practices and that, in the case of complex processes, these need to be in-line, not on-line and certainly not off-line. In theory, you can ask data mining software to run through your event … Continue reading

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