Let's talk about Business Process Management
I find Balanced Scorecard a great model for every company which want to establish a continuous improvement thrive process and maintain a competitive vantage over a large period. The term was coined by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton in an article that appeared in the Harvard Business Review, “The Balanced Scorecard – Measures […]
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What is the Business Motivation Model and why it’s important for each company to define it, it’s well explained just in the introduction of OMG® standard that formalize it: “The Business Motivation Model provides a scheme or structure for developing, communicating, and managing business plans in an organized manner. Specifically, the Business Motivation Model does […]
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What is the relationship between value streams, capabilities and business processes? “Analysis of the value stream leads to identification of the business capabilities that will be required to provide value in each of the steps of the value stream” “Business processes describe how the business performs, or implements, the given capability, and how capabilities connect […]
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This is the question that Eero Hosiaisluoma try to answer in his clear article: “The Most Useful ArchiMate Diagram Types” He declares that the most useful diagram types are as follows: 1. Motivation View – to define the value and meaning of the development target (with ArchiMate Motivation elements).2. Layered View – to define all the relevant elements into […]
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The BPMN standard has the goal to model process that already in design phase are predictable, repeatable processes. But, for real world situations where the process is unpredictable and its behavior may be due to sudden and unexpected events that occur or due to known events that are unpredictable in their timing, BPMN was interpreted to be […]
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The “Field Guide to Shareable Clinical Pathways”, by OMG® Healthcare Domain Taskforce focuses on a model-based approach to define the workflow of care and decision-making at the level of granularity that reveals information a detail useful to implement health information technology to improve the efficiency and quality of clinical health care.The approach of guide is to […]
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One of the most important questions to consider when the companies start a business process change initiatives is to identify and assign the Process Owner(s). But, to tell all story, this is a crucial question because we are talking about definition and assignment of roles and responsibilities, so, in finally analysis, we are talking about […]
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A BPM Center of Excellence (COE) is an organization area that can help companies in their business process initiatives and, at the same time, it can play a key role in order to establish a long term vision by defining process ownership and governance, roles and responsibilities, service levels and standards that should be associated […]
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A very short and clear video by Harvard Business Review about Balanced Scorecard where are summarized the 4 areas of attention that every company should care and monitor to thrive in the long term. Where it is said that the financial measures account for only the short term. Also, the video indicates the causal relationship of dependence […]
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The TOGAF® Architecture Development Method (ADM®) provides a process lifecycle to create and manage architectures within an enterprise. At each phase within the ADM there are a number of architectural work products or artifacts that are produced. TOGAF® provides a minimum set of architectural content to support traceability across artifacts, described in core metamodel, and […]
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ArchiMate® by The Open Group® is a standard modeling language for Enterprise Architecture. It is a visual language with a set of default iconography for describing, analyzing, and communicating many concerns of Enterprise Architectures with a uniform representation. Business Motivation Model® by OMG® is a standard that can be used to model motivational aspects of […]
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Process frameworks are useful to support process discovery, developing a common language for processes, creating end-to-end process maps, evaluate and choose the right measures providing insights into a process’ performance and more. But, I think the primary role of process framework remains helping organizations to create standardization and a common understanding of what each process means. […]
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Business models and strategy are not the same thing, and they have thought together to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. “A business model articulates the logic, the data, and other evidence that support a value proposition for the customer, and a viable structure of revenues and costs for the enterprise delivering that value. In short, […]
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The goal of OMG® standard, Decision Model and NotationTM (DMN) is to provide a common notation that is understandable by all business users, from the business analysts needing to create initial decision requirements and then more detailed decision models, to the technical developers responsible for automating the decisions in processes, and finally, to the business […]
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All organizations have a business model, regardless of whether it is explicitly documented. It can exist in a leader’s mind, or encapsulated in the way of working for the organization (e.g., the procedures and behavior). But, explicitly document it, better graphically, is very important, because this makes more tangible abstracts concepts, it reduces spaces of […]
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