Let's talk about Business Process Management
One of the deliverables that TOGAF® suggests and which I found very useful in my projects is the Road Map. In TOGAF® standard is said: “This deliverable is incrementally developed throughout Phases E and F, and informed by readily identifiable roadmap components from Phase B, C, and D within the ADM®” Why do I find […]
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The ArchiMate ® Enterprise Architecture, by The Open Group Standard, is a modeling language to express Enterprise Architectures by diagrams. It offers different concepts for viewpoints of specific stakeholders and relationship between a source and target concept to define structural, dependency, dynamic, or other types of interlationship. My viewpoint is that of a Business Process […]
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Critical Success Factors (CSFs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), by D. Ronald and Jack F. Rockart, is a method to define and measuring business objective and assure that these are aligned to the organization vision and goals. When you have identified the organization’s strategic goals/objectives, then, for each of them, you have to ask your […]
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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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In modelling processes, the BPMN standard specifies two general type of sub-process: Sub- Process (Embedded Sub-Process in BPMN 1.2) Call Activity (Reusable Sub-Process in BPMN 1.2) A Sub-Process is a set of activities and it’s fully dependent on one specific parent process, it does not exist as a separate process. A Call Activity is a set […]
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In modelling processes, Intermediate Event indicates something happens somewhere between the start and end of a process. It will affect the flow of the process, but, will not start or (directly) terminate the process. In BPMN® standard there are twelve types of Intermediate Events. For each of them is used a circle that must be […]
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Collaboration Diagram is one of the most useful and used BPMN diagram. It is a diagram that models the interaction by two or more participants. Above there is an example of this diagram. In that diagram there are all the main elements that compose this kind of diagram. Participants In this example, these are the […]
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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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All of us know how much important is the training and development for attract and retain employees. About this topic I suggest you this HBR article, where the part where I completely agree is where is said that the training to be useful must be applied! Indeed, the important questions about training is: “Instead of […]
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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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I found very interesting this article by Ron Friedman in Harvard Business Review. In the article is said that when it comes to building extraordinary workplaces and high-performing teams, researchers have long appreciated that three psychological needs are essential: autonomy, competence, and relatedness. Desire to feel connected to others, has always been the trickiest for […]
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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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