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Creating a strategy to
enable a single partnership of people, processes and technology to drive
the successful implementation of BPM in your business |
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BPM maturity requires managed
change
BY LEIGH-ANN FRANCIS , ITWEB
PORTALS WRITER
[ Johannesburg, 31 August 2009 ] - Process maturity should be foundational to
applying, sustaining and continuously leveraging off Lean Six Sigma. So said
Tony Gardiner, organisational process development manager at Nedbank, in his
keynote at the ITWeb BPM Summit and Awards held at Montecasino, in Fourways,
last week.
Based on a business process maturity model, Gardiner discussed the various
levels of BPM maturity that an organisation should strive to achieve. “To
achieve maturity growth the organisation needs to change the way it does
things,” he advised.
At the lowest level of BPM maturity, explained Gardiner, organisations focus on
simply becoming a managed organisation; which it achieves through work unit
management. At this level organisations need to overcome inconsistent
management, including defects, overruns and ad hoc methods, he added.
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Developing the BPM business case
BY LEIGH-ANN
FRANCIS , ITWEB PORTALS WRITER
[ Johannesburg, 26 August 2009 ] - Business process management (BPM) is
something everybody buys into on a conceptual level; however, when it comes to
implementing the solution, companies are hesitant.
This is because the decision-makers are business executives who are not
primarily concerned with business processes, according to Julian Labuschagne,
associate director at PWC Advisory SA. Labuschagne spoke on the business
benefits of BPM at the ITWeb BPM Summit and Awards event, held at Montecasino in
Johannesburg, yesterday.
“For BPM to succeed, we need to develop a business model that speaks to the
business executives,” explained Labuschagne. He advised companies to address the
following questions: Why does the company want this? What are the alternatives?
And, where does the company start?
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Companies rewarded for BPM
excellence
BY THEO BOSHOFF , ITWEB
SENIOR JOURNALIST.
[ Johannesburg, 26 August 2009 ] - Zurich SA/Ovations walked away with the Grand
Prix Award for BPM Excellence, sponsored by K2, at the ITWeb BPM awards event
held in Johannesburg last night.
It was one of three companies ITWeb presented with excellence awards for their
achievements in business process management (BPM) project implementation and
success.
The award was given to Zurich SA/Ovations for the enhancement of Zurich SA's BPM
environment and the replacement of its software solution. This resulted in
process improvements and greater management visibility and capability in the
company environment, bringing centralised processes, increased flexibility,
reduced costs and improved efficiencies.
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In the news: |
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BPM a critical building block
[ Johannesburg, 28 August 2009 ] - Businesses
need the right tools and skills in order to
analyse their processes, according to Mark
McGregor, process performance author, coach and
mentor. |
BPM comes first
[ Johannesburg, 27 August 2009 ] - When aligned
with an enterprise architecture (EA) strategy,
business process management (BPM) enables
business agility, according to Andre Jordaan,
manager of business performance improvement at
Santam. |
BPM, LSS go hand-in-hand
[ Johannesburg, 26 August 2009 ] - There is no
silver bullet in the business process management
(BPM) journey. |
Aligning people to BPM
[ Johannesburg, 11 August 2009 ] - The success
of business process management (BPM) centres of
excellence relies on the creation of new roles
which ensure the successful adoption of BPM
enterprise-wide, says IBM. |
BPM award nominees announced
[Johannesburg, 29 July 2009] - ITWeb has
announced the nominees for the BPM Excellence
Awards, being presented on 25 August at
Montecasino in Johannesburg. |
BPM summit to showcase strategies
[Johannesburg, 2 June 2009] - Andrew Spanyi, an
expert in business process management (BPM),
change management and performance measurement,
will give keynotes at the inaugural BPM Summit
hosted by ITWeb from 25 to 27 August at
Montecasino in Johannesburg. |
Connecting BPM and LSS
[Johannesburg, 15 July 2009] - Companies that
fail to successfully integrate Lean Six Sigma
and business process management (BPM)
initiatives may not realise the full potential
of their process improvement efforts. |
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The
speaker presentations are now available for delegates to download on ITWeb's
vCards.
vCards
are virtual networking tools, which offer delegates,
speakers and sponsors an interactive communications platform to engage,
interact and exchange information.
To get
started click on the link below:
http://www.itweb.co.za/events/vcards/
To view the BPM vCards
simply enter the
username, and password which was sent to you via email.
Should you need any additional information regarding
the use of your vCard, contact
Maggie on
maggie@itweb.co.za or (011) 807-3294.
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