Did you always wondered how to apply BPM or continuous improvement in your organisation, though doubted (how) to start with it? Well, from now you should not have any argument anymore to start with…

This is a first blog in a row about what BPM really is. And where appropriate, the comparison will be made with Lean management, even more particularly for service organisations.

In this first blog, you will read about the 5 basic elements of the BPM life cycle, including their purpose, importance and ultimately their business benefits. This blog gives you an helicopter view of BPM.

While next blogs will zoom in, and provide you with more detailed explanation of each of these elements individually, illustrated with concrete examples ‘from the trenches’, which tools to use, etc.

Don’t forget to share your experience or to post questions or remarks in the Comment box, so to get a free participation to the next BPM-webinar on the 16th of January 2018.

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Often, I have been asked whether process-centricity is not against business agility. Some rumors claim, indeed, that an organisation where processes are very “lean” – say efficient – offer no room for creativity and innovation.

Therefore, I listed 10 reasons why process-driven organisations, on the contrary, are more agile than the ones having a poor process maturity.

And for most of these reasons, I referred to an interesting case study of a company which is one of the most Agile in a very competitive industry for many years.

Don’t wait much longer to read why BPM or Lean, and business agility are going hand in hand.

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Did you already wonder how to improve your organisation’s business agility to cope with the growing VUCA (= Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) environment in which it operates?

Do you like to know how business process flexibility can help you to increase your organisation’s agility?

Then you should not miss this blog, which depicts what business agility really is, why it is so important, and how process flexibility helps to improve it.

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Do you also experience business case estimations as a challenge, sometimes?

Or would you like to estimate benefits & costs of future investments even more accurately?

Then you should definitely read this blog. It illustrates, through 2 concrete examples, how business process knowledge will help you to estimate even more accurately business cases for your future investments or process improvement projects.

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Do you know the relationship between self-managed teams and BPM?

And how process thinking and process management foster the transition from a rather hierarchical, bureaucratic organisation towards an organisation with self-managed teams?

Well, in this blog you will not only read why self-managed teams are important in a VUCA-world, and how BPM is a perfect enabler for a so called “Teal organisation”, based on self-management.

You will also read 9 basic principles – say critical success factors – for an organisation to succeed in adopting self-managed teams.

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