this is the subtitle of the book " Process Oriented Management "by Thilo and Uwe Knuppertz Feddern. At 293 pages, the two management consultants of the BPM & O describe in detail how process management is a holistic methodology can be established in an enterprise. Process management to understand the authors as a holistic management method. The book is not described as a single process is optimized. It deals with how a business process-oriented and align the goals can be achieved. The book addresses the middle and top management, which would be closely involved with the issue. (more ...)

In the third part of my tip series on Business Process Management I would like to address a few key points about process modeling and process design. Since forming in any BPM project at least one process model, the foundation stone of the project is extremely important that the quality of process models is also fair.

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In the second part of my tip series on Business Process Management I would like to address fundamental project management issues: strategy, goals, communication and risk management.

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Following a BPM-lecture I gave in Munich, there was a very interesting discussion. One participant said that with the Business Process Management is very nice indeed, but it was not clear how a company can buy now BPM. How do you get all the wonderful advantages one has with BPM? The question of the participant was a bit unexpected, but still manage.

Here I must mention briefly that I have presented, among other BPM as a whole and myself here to the BPM CBOK was ajar. I explained the 9 knowledge areas and what each incurred for activities in each area.

I think you can not buy BPM itself. Business Process Management is not for sale! (more ...)

Many companies are just in the ongoing crisis on the topic of Business Process Management as a solution. You want to reduce costs and increase with BPM at the same time the performance. Here is how to treat each project with the "new" issues, the threat to burn the fingers if you do not make sense. Also, an addiction to quick wins and ROI <12 months in many BPM projects fail for one reason. But it's true: with BPM, can significantly increase the efficiency of a company while at the same time, costs can be reduced. But this is a holistic BPM and a sound strategy planning is necessary.

The rules of the following points is crucial for making the idea a BPM project.

1. A company wants to make processes more efficient primary
2. A company wants to cut costs, primarily

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