Enterprises have to adapt their business processes quickly and efficiently to new business environments to ensure business success and long term survival. It is not sufficient to apply best business practices but new practices have to be developed and executed. These requirements are met by new business process automation technologies, based on concepts like web services, EAI, workflow, enterprise service architectures, and automation engines. Business process automation becomes a key enabler for business process excellence. This book explains major trends in business process automation and shows how new technologies and solutions are applied in practice. It outlines how process automation becomes an element of an overall process lifecycle management approach, structured on the basis of the ARIS House of business excellence and implemented through software tools like the ARIS toolset.

This reference book shows how the Zero Outage method leads to more stability in operations, more reliability in projects and, ultimately, to greater customer satisfaction. It explains why clear standards for platforms, processes and personnel are essential for ensuring high ICT quality from end to end and what to look out for during changes - the most common cause of IT outages. Readers also learn how to resolve errors as quickly as possible and permanently eliminate them, and why industry-wide collaboration will only be possible with a shared standard of quality. This book is a practical introduction to making your ICT world even more failsafe and efficient. The authors share key knowledge in quality management and offer an exclusive insight into their extensively tested and continually enhanced formula for success: the Zero Outage approach.

This book provides a practical and strategic perspective on IT and cyber security for corporations and other businesses. Leading experts from industry, politics and research discuss the status quo and future prospects of corporate cyber security. They answer questions such as: How much will IT security cost? Who will provide IT security? Can security even be fun? The book claims that digitization will increasingly pervade all areas of the economy, as well as our daily professional and personal lives. It will produce speed, agility and cost efficiency, but also increasing vulnerability in the context of public, corporate and private life. Consequently, cyber security is destined to become the great facilitator of digitization, providing maximum protection for data, networks, data centres and terminal devices.

Today's business environment is constantly changing: New customer requirements or products, an evolving competition, new IT solutions like EAI or web services, outsourcing opportunities or changing legal requirements are just a few reasons for this change. Therefore enterprises have to ensure an efficient and effective change management in order to stay competitive and survive on the long term. This is a precondition to achieve and maintain business process excellence. The book defines business process change management as information, communication, and training that enable people to make change and improvements happen. It shows using case studies from organizations like American Meter, the US Navy, or Amway how this change management is applied in practice using a framework like the ARIS House of Business Process Excellence or software tools like the ARIS Toolset. 

In this book, leading CEOs, CIOs and experts from international corporations explore the role of digitalization and cloud-based processes as the main business drivers of the 21st century. Focusing on how to get started with digitalization and how to handle the technologies involved, they employ analyses and practical case studies to demonstrate how to unleash the potential offered by the cloud, and how to achieve the most critical success factors - quality and security - through the right partnerships. Readers will discover why the cloud will soon take over the driver's seat in cars, and why Heineken CIO Anne Teague claims that innovation is impossible without high-quality IT. The book reveals what IT managers can learn from Silicon Valley and China today, and why Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Hoettges believes Europe's future depends on successful digitalization. In a closing strategic assessment, the editor Ferri Abolhassan presents the cloud as the essential backbone of digitalization. In short, the book provides readers the first comprehensive, high-level assessment of cloud-based digital transformation in the era of Industry 4.0.

This book provides a practical and strategic perspective on IT and cyber security for corporations and other businesses. Leading experts from industry, politics and research discuss the status quo and future prospects of corporate cyber security. They answer questions such as: How much will IT security cost? Who will provide IT security? Can security even be fun? The book claims that digitization will increasingly pervade all areas of the economy, as well as our daily professional and personal lives. It will produce speed, agility and cost efficiency, but also increasing vulnerability in the context of public, corporate and private life. Consequently, cyber security is destined to become the great facilitator of digitization, providing maximum protection for data, networks, data centres and terminal devices.

This reference book shows how the Zero Outage method leads to more stability in operations, more reliability in projects and, ultimately, to greater customer satisfaction. It explains why clear standards for platforms, processes and personnel are essential for ensuring high ICT quality from end to end and what to look out for during changes - the most common cause of IT outages. Readers also learn how to resolve errors as quickly as possible and permanently eliminate them, and why industry-wide collaboration will only be possible with a shared standard of quality. This book is a practical introduction to making your ICT world even more failsafe and efficient. The authors share key knowledge in quality management and offer an exclusive insight into their extensively tested and continually enhanced formula for success: the Zero Outage approach.

In this book, leading CEOs, CIOs and experts from international corporations explore the role of digitalization and cloud-based processes as the main business drivers of the 21st century. Focusing on how to get started with digitalization and how to handle the technologies involved, they employ analyses and practical case studies to demonstrate how to unleash the potential offered by the cloud, and how to achieve the most critical success factors - quality and security - through the right partnerships. Readers will discover why the cloud will soon take over the driver's seat in cars, and why Heineken CIO Anne Teague claims that innovation is impossible without high-quality IT. The book reveals what IT managers can learn from Silicon Valley and China today, and why Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Hoettges believes Europe's future depends on successful digitalization. In a closing strategic assessment, the editor Ferri Abolhassan presents the cloud as the essential backbone of digitalization. In short, the book provides readers the first comprehensive, high-level assessment of cloud-based digital transformation in the era of Industry 4.0.

This book shows you how to achieve business process excellence through change management activities, with case studies from major corporations such as American Meter and the US Navy. The book defines business process change management as information, communication, and training that enable people to make change and improvements happen. Using case studies the text shows how this change management is applied in practice using a framework like the ARIS House of Business Process Excellence or software tools like the ARIS Toolset.

Die Industrialisierung des 20. Jahrhunderts hat Arbeitsablaufe durch Standardisierungsmassnahmen vereinheitlicht, Prozesse vehement verschlankt und dadurch Qualitat, Effektivitat und Effizienz massgeblich erhoht. Ahnliche Phanomene sind innerhalb der letzten Dekade im Rahmen der IT-Industrialisierung im 21. Jahrhundert zu beobachten. Nur durch konsequente Uberfuhrung in fabrikartige Strukturen konnen IT-Service-Organisationen in Outsourcing-Geschaften einheitliche Qualitatsstandards sicherstellen und Skaleneffekte realisieren, die fur den Kunden letztendlich zu Kostenvorteilen fuhren.

In "Der Weg zur modernen IT-Fabrik "beschreibt ein interdisziplinares Autorenteam praxisnah und anhand der aktuellen Herausforderungen einer global agierenden IT-Service-Organisation den Prozess der IT-Industrialisierung, d. h. konkret die Transformation der Branche hin zur IT-Factory. Dabei werden neueste Erkenntnisse aus angewandter Forschung, Beratungspraxis und IT-Unternehmenspraxis zusammengefuhrt."

Real-Time Enterprise (RTE) ist eine Unternehmensstruktur, die durch kontinuierliche Beschleunigung der Managementprozesse die eigene Aktions- und Reaktionsgeschwindigkeit nachhaltig verbessert und verzogerungsfrei auf externe sowie interne Anderungen reagieren und damit Zeit und Kosten einsparen kann. Voraussetzungen und Rahmenbedingungen hierfur sind durchgangig integrierte Geschaftsprozesse und Informationsflusse entlang der kompletten Wertschopfungskette. Im Idealfall sind dabei alle Arbeitsprozesse in einem Unternehmen optimal aufeinander abgestimmt, so dass Data Warehouse, Supply Chain Management, Customer Relationship Management und Enterprise Resource Planning wirkungsvoll ineinander greifen. Dabei endet die Betrachtung von Prozessen und Informationen nicht an den Unternehmensgrenzen. Statt dessen sind Kunden und beteiligte Partnerfirmen beziehungsweise deren Prozesse transparent eingebunden und tauschen Informationen uber alle relevanten Ereignisse zeitnah aus. "

Das Umfeld von Unternehmen ist heute stAndigen VerAnderungen unterworfen: neue Kundenanforderungen, neue Produkte, zunehmender Wettbewerb, neue IT-LAsungen wie EAI oder Webservices, Outsourcing oder auch verAnderte rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen sind nur einige der Faktoren. Unternehmen benAtigen daher ein effizientes Change Management, um auf Dauer wettbewerbsfAhig zu bleiben und ihre GeschAftsprozesse fortlaufend zu optimieren.

Im Buch wird das Management von ProzessverAnderungen verstanden als Schaffung von MAglichkeiten, durch Information, Kommunikation und Weiterbildung zu VerAnderungen und Verbesserungen der GeschAftsprozesse zu gelangen. Anhand von Fallstudien aus Organisationen wie American Meter, der US-Navy oder Amway wird gezeigt, wie Change Management mit Hilfe eines Anwendungssystems wie ARIS House of Business Process Excellence oder eines Softwareprogramms wie dem ARIS-Toolset praktisch umgesetzt wird.

Business process management is the basis for all initiatives like SCM, CRM, ERP, or business intelligence. New component and internet-based software architectures and web services require a solid process management to deliver the expected business success. However, many organizations still struggle to find the right approach to business process management. IDS Scheer delivers with ARIS the framework to meet this challenge successfully.

IDS Scheer has successfully applied its ARIS business process management approach at thousands of organizations worldwide such as Intel, Siemens, or the US Navy. This book presents international case studies in various manufacturing and service industries as well as the public sector. It shows how to achieve business process excellence in practice.

Enterprises have to adapt their business processes quickly and efficiently to new business environments to ensure business success and long term survival. It is not sufficient to apply best business practices but new practices have to be developed and executed. These requirements are met by new business process automation technologies, based on concepts like web services, EAI, workflow, enterprise service architectures, and automation engines. Business process automation becomes a key enabler for business process excellence.

This book explains major trends in business process automation and shows how new technologies and solutions are applied in practice. It outlines how process automation becomes an element of an overall process lifecycle management approach, structured on the basis of the ARIS House of business excellence and implemented through software tools like the ARIS toolset.

Neue Kundenanforderungen, neue Produkte, neue IT-Loesungen oder Outsourcing verlangen von Unternehmen ein effizientes Change Management, um auf Dauer wettbewerbsfahig zu bleiben und ihre Geschaftsprozesse fortlaufend zu optimieren. Die Autoren verstehen Prozessveranderungen als Moeglichkeiten, durch Information, Kommunikation und Weiterbildung zu Veranderungen und Verbesserungen der Geschaftsprozesse zu gelangen. Anhand von Fallstudien aus Organisationen wie American Meter, der US-Navy oder Amway zeigen sie, wie Change Management mit Hilfe eines Anwendungssystems wie ARIS House of Business Process Excellence oder eines Softwareprogramms wie ARIS-Toolset praktisch umgesetzt wird.

Real-Time Enterprise (RTE) ist eine Unternehmensstruktur, die durch kontinuierliche Beschleunigung der Managementprozesse die eigene Aktions- und Reaktionsgeschwindigkeit nachhaltig verbessert und verzogerungsfrei auf externe sowie interne Anderungen reagieren und damit Zeit und Kosten einsparen kann. Voraussetzungen und Rahmenbedingungen hierfur sind durchgangig integrierte Geschaftsprozesse und Informationsflusse entlang der kompletten Wertschopfungskette. Im Idealfall sind dabei alle Arbeitsprozesse in einem Unternehmen optimal aufeinander abgestimmt, so dass Data Warehouse, Supply Chain Management, Customer Relationship Management und Enterprise Resource Planning wirkungsvoll ineinander greifen. Dabei endet die Betrachtung von Prozessen und Informationen nicht an den Unternehmensgrenzen. Statt dessen sind Kunden und beteiligte Partnerfirmen beziehungsweise deren Prozesse transparent eingebunden und tauschen Informationen uber alle relevanten Ereignisse zeitnah aus. "

Markterfolg und Wachstum durch Business Process Management (BPM) Mit 20 Jahren Fokussierung auf Business Process Excellence stellt sich die IDS Scheer AG mit ihren weltmarktfuhrenden BPM-Werkzeugen als bevorzugter Part- ner fur prozessorientierte Organisationen auf. Optimierung der Wertschoepfung durch Business Process Management (BPM) ist auch der Treiber fur die vielfalti- gen Consulting-Themen der internationalen IDS Scheer Gruppe. IDS Scheer spricht seine Kunden im Jahr 2004 unter dem Leitmotiv "Innovation durch Geschaftsprozessmanagement" an. Dabei fokussiert das Unternehmen seine Leistungen konsequent auf den Geschaftserfolg dieser Kunden - durch effizientes Prozessmanagement auf der Basis der ARIS Process Platform. Prozessoptimie- rung bedeutet dabei nicht nur, was man an Prozessen verbessern kann, sondern auch die Antwort auf die Frage, wie die Prozesse aussehen mussen, damit ein Un- ternehmen seine Ziele erreichen kann. Das umfangreiche Leistungsportfolio der Consulting-Spezialisten von IDS Scheer fokussiert BPM als facettenreiches Managementthema. Dabei gehen die BPM- Beratungsthemen weit uber die Ziele der Prozessoptimierung hinaus. Der Bogen spannt sich vom Qualitatsmanagement uber Personalbedarfsplanung, Kostenre- duktion, Standardisierung und Outsourcing von Prozessen bis zur Implementie- rung von IT-Systemen. Grundsatzlich geht es darum, auf Basis der Geschaftsfel- der und der strategischen Unternehmensziele effiziente Geschaftsprozesse zu definieren, umzusetzen und zu messen.