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.

Companies must confront an increasingly competitive environment with lean, flexible and market oriented structures. Therefore companies organize themselves according to their business processes. These processes are more and more often designed, implemented and managed based on standard software, mostly ERP or SCM packages. This is the first book delivering a complete description of a business driven implementation of standard software packages, accelerated by the use of reference models and other information models. The use of those models ensures best quality results and speeds up the software implementation. The book discusses how companies can optimize business processes and realize strategic goals with the implementation of software like SAP R/3, Oracle, Baan or Peoplesoft. It also includes the post implementation activities. The book cites numerous case studies and outlines each step of a process oriented implementation, including the goals, procedures and necessary methods and tools.

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. 

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.

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.

Continuously changing customer and market requirements as well as new developments in information technology have become a dominating factor in today's business environment. To be successful enterprises have to adapt quickly to new opportunities and threats. They have to take smart decision and execute fast. Innovation and agility become important success factors. The Management of Process Excellence (MPE) is the main enabler. It helps achieving immediate benefits while building lasting process management capabilities. MPE links strategy with people and technology based execution. Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), Web 2.0 or "cloud computing" support this approach. The right process governance, including centers of excellence, and knowledge assets in form of reference models increase the delivered value again. The resulting next generation enterprise is ready for long term success. The book discusses how business process management delivers real value in private and public sector organizations around the world. It addresses executives and managers as well as educators and students.

Companies must confront an increasingly competitive environment with lean, flexible and market oriented structures. Therefore companies organize themselves according to their business processes. These processes are more and more often designed, implemented and managed based on standard software, mostly ERP or SCM packages. This is the first book delivering a complete description of a business driven implementation of standard software packages, accelerated by the use of reference models and other information models. The use of those models ensures best quality results and speeds up the software implementation. The book discusses how companies can optimize business processes and realize strategic goals with the implementation of software like SAP R/3, Oracle, Baan or Peoplesoft. It also includes the post implementation activities. The book cites numerous case studies and outlines each step of a process oriented implementation, including the goals, procedures and necessary methods and tools.

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.

This management book presents value-driven business process management as a successful discipline to turn strategy into people- and technology-based execution, quickly and at minimal risk. It shows how to achieve high performance successfully in a digital business environment. Static business models do not keep pace with the dynamic changes in our digital world. Organizations need a management approach that fits this environment and capitalizes on its opportunities while minimizing the related risks. They need to execute their business strategy fast and reliably. In effect, they have to know how and when to modify or enhance their business processes, which processes are the best candidates for intervention, and how to move rapidly from strategy to execution. This means organizations need to establish business process management as a real management discipline. The importance of process innovation, digital technology and people aspects, process governance, internationalization, emerging processes and the unique situation in mid-market organizations are some of the key topics discussed in this book. It ends with a comprehensive case study and a discussion about what process engineers can learn from jazz musicians.

Praise for "Value-Driven Business Process Management"

"The book goes well beyond a traditional methods-and-tools perspective to present the most current, broadly informed view of BPM as a management discipline. . . ."
--Paul O'Flaherty, Finance Director, Eskom

"Franz and Kirchmer go directly to the heart of the role of BPM in business by focusing on value as the driver, management discipline as the requirement, and translating strategy into execution as the measure of success. . . ."
--Richard Maltsbarger, SVP of Strategy & BPM, Lowe's Companies, Inc.

"If your CEO has delivered a set of strategic imperatives, you are ready for Value-Driven BPM. This book provides the vision of how to win in the integrated global economy by building a core BPM discipline in your company to simplify the delivery of business strategy. . . ."
--Kathleen Donahue, Senior Director of Business Process Management, Pfizer Inc.

"Business Process Management (BPM) has to be implemented as a management discipline and linked to the strategic imperatives of an organization in order to achieve the best business impact. Franz and Kirchmer show how this can be achieved. . . . I recommend the book to top executives, BPM practitioners, as well as the academic world."
--Professor Dr. Drs. h.c. August-Wilhelm Scheer, BPM Thought Leader and Entrepreneur

""Value-Driven Business Process Management" is a game-changing book. . . ."
--Larry M. Starr, Ph.D., Executive Director and Academic Chair, Organizational Dynamics Graduate Studies, University of Pennsylvania

"Franz and Kirchmer provide a strong foundation for readers in every phase of their BPM life cycle."
--Alan Trefler, Founder and CEO, Pegasystems Inc.

"Value-driven BPM, as defined by Franz and Kirchmer, is an insightful way to use the available methods and tools to get real business impact through process management. It is a fresh approach to quickly move from strategy into execution."
--Dr. Wolfram Jost, CTO, Software AG

About the Book:

Business Process Management (BPM) is a powerful management discipline for driving efficiency and innovation, as well as achieving strategic imperatives. When you develop a business strategy that is supported by a pragmatic application of BPM, your processes become important assets--and business success soon follows. It's called value-driven BPM, and this game-changing guide takes you step by step through the entire process.

A team of BPM experts from the global management consulting company Accenture provides some of the key ingredients you need to achieve the highest levels of differentiation and performance. Franz and Kirchmer explain how to launch value-driven BPM in synchronicity with existing BPM efforts, and they reveal common roadblocks along with clear steps for overcoming them. With "Value-Driven Business Process Management," you have in your hands a full-suite guide to: Achieving immediate business benefi ts while building lasting BPM capabilities Putting the right team and infrastructure in place to build an organization designed for an outcome and value-based BPM capability Assessing and prioritizing process improvements in alignment with the overall business strategy to meet the most vital needs and deliver the most value

The authors include several end-to-end case studies from a range of industries. These deliver valuable insight into successfully linking processes to value.

If your goal is to empower every employee at every level to express his or her virtuosity in a way that is aligned with strategy, this book is for you. If you seek to create innovative products and services that meet changing customer requirements, this book is for you. If you want your people and technological capabilities to execute the new paradigm with excellence, and thus realize unprecedented value, this book is for you.

If you want to seize the competitive edge now--and maintain it for years to come--"Value-Driven Business Process Management" is for you.