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Peter Fingar
Operational Transformation: Get Ready for Extreme Competition
Just what really lies at the heart of business process management? What is it beyond today and where can it take us? Peter Fingar describes the Operational Transformation opportunity that BPM can lead to as part of an evolved business practice, resulting in an organization inherently geared to sustaining competitive advantage.

David Lyneham-Brown
Steve Towers
Mark McGregor
Terry Schurter
8 Omega
One of the most challenging issues in BPM is not the question of “If” it is the question of “How.” Here the 8 Omega Framework is presented as the “How” of business process management. Drawing from decades of real experience with real (and successful) BPM initiatives, 8 Omega is a broad reaching and flexible framework for taking BPM from promise to practice.

Andrew Spanyi
Strategy and BPM
Andrew Spanyi, Executive Coach with The Business Process Management Group, presents the case for Strategy and BPM, adapted from his book Business Process Management is a Team Sport – Play it to Win!

Terry Schurter
BPM Software: Why you Need it and how to Maximize its Value
Terry Schurter, BPM Group Chief Analyst, turns a critical eye onto BPM software in presenting the rational behind the need for BPM software and the important (and often overlooked) critical points that must be considered to maximize the value of BPM software.

Dr. Pehong Chen
Process-Powered Self Service: The Next Source of Competitive Advantage
Web-based, process-driven self service is recognized as the next source of competitive advantage. Agile process development is a business imperative complimentary to BPM. Dr. Chen illustrates the business benefits of process-driven Web self service with anecdotes and customer examples from experience as founder of a pioneering e-business enterprise.

Roger Burlton
BPM: From Common Sense to Common Practice
Roger Burlton, President of Process Renewal Group, gives us a broad perspective on BPM as he discusses where BPM’s roots lie, how BPM has evolved, what BPM is really all about, the sweeping changes BPM will introduce and what companies must do to position themselves for success as the BPM movement continues to gain momentum.

Keith Harrison-Broninski
No Cheese is Made of Chalk
Keith Harrison-Broninski presents human interaction as one of the important considerations in the evolution of business and as a further example of how the impact and application of business process management extends to all of the critical dimensions where opportunity awaits us for the creation of business improvement and competitive advantage.

Join BPMG as we bring the leading thought leaders, methodologists, analysts and visionaries in the field of Business Process Management together under one cover in THE BPM BOOK OF 2005...

IN SEARCH OF BPM EXCELLENCE

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In Search of BPM Excellence brings together the leaders in BPM from around the globe FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ONE BOOK. In Search of BPM Excellence presents the critical thinking for such key subject areas as: BPM Best Practice, Next Practice, The Real Time Enterprise, Strategy, Framework, BPM Software, BPM in Practice, New extensions to the BPM definition, and more.

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A brief History of BPM with In the Beginning, by Steve Towers
Where BPM is at with BPM: From Common Sense to Common Practice, by Roger Burlton
BPM as the cornerstone of the Real-Time Enterprise in Operational Transformation: The Next Source of Competitive Advantage, Peter Fingar
The importance of corporate focus in Strategy and BPM, by Andrew Spanyi
The nature of the organization geared for change in The Dynamically Stable Enterprise, by Vasile Buciuman-Coman & Adrian George Sahlean
Where BPM is headed beyond best practice in BPM and Next Practice, by Mark McGregor
Another aspect of competitive advantage presented with Processed Powered Self-Service, by Dr. Pehong Chen
How Business Rules fit into the picture with Business Rules and Business Processes, by Ronald Ross
There is a Framework that can guide successful Best Practice and Next Practice presented here in The 8 Omega Framework, by Steve Towers, Mark McGregor, David Lyneham-Brown & Terry Schurter
The requirements behind BPM and Continuous Improvement, by Jorge Coelho
Selection and Implementation of BPMS in BPM Software: Why you NEED it and how to Maximize its Value, by Terry Schurter
The emerging humanistic science of BPM is presented in No Cheese is Chalk, by Keith Harrison-Broninski
How BPM applies to Manufacturing with Applying Business Process Management Tools In the Manufacturing Enterprise, by Michael McClellan
Business insights and considerations of BPM in Five Fables and Their Lessons, by Martyn Ould

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Steve Towers
In The Beginning
Steve Towers – CEO of The Business Process Management Group – takes an insightful look back into history with the early days of the industrial revolution where, surprisingly, many of the core concepts of BPM that influence what BPM means today were first placed into action by key figures of the revolution through application of rigorous scientific method.

Mark McGregor
BPM and "Next" Practice
Mark McGregor of The Business Process Management Group, takes us forward in our thinking about BPM as he looks at where he sees BPM heading, and how the principles of Business Process Management are destined to become the Key to Real Competitive Advantage.

Ronald Ross
Business Rules and Business Processes: Win-Win for the Business
BPM software products rely heavily on them. Ronald Ross discusses the relationship of business rules (the know) and business processes (the flow) in BPM and the affect that business rules have on the creation, operation and maintenance of the agile and adaptive organization.

Adrian Sahlean
(see text below Vasile Coman)

Vasile Coman
The Dynamically Stable Enterprise: Engineered for Change
Vasile Buciuman-Coman and Adrian George Sahlean explore the ramifications of offshore manufacturing and IT outsourcing; a topic of significant concern and interest to BPM initiatives as many organizations struggle with the question of “Should I outsource business processes, and if so, which ones?”

Jorge Coelho
BPM and Continuous Improvement
Jorge Coelho of SisConsult, discusses the importance of BPM at the center of continuous improvement and the requirements of an effective strategy-oriented intervention methodology needed to support ongoing BPM.

Michael McClellan
Applying BPM in Manufacturing
Michael McClellan delves deeply into the role of BPM in manufacturing to uncover its value to this critical market segment while presenting the clear message of how BPM principles can best be applied to produce real value and sustainable competitive advantage in any industry.