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Compliance Management Made Simple with Lean BPM
by Carl Casserly Do compliance managers have special super powers that compel every employee within an organization to think about how to meet corporate risk mitigation objectives? Do workers wake up in the morning thinking about compliance controls and how much they...
Can You Achieve Continuous Improvement with a BPMS?
The limiting factor on continuous improvement is no longer the BPMS technology – Lean BPM allows design and modification to take place at greatly increased speed. In fact, it will take longer to have the meetings, with staff and process stakeholders to agree the new...
How Can You See Your Organization’s Status On-Demand?
It's 3 AM, you fall in and out of sleep after a tough day managing your department. Your phone rings, it's your boss. She's been up all night thinking about this new project for your team. She wants to go forward with it, but she needs to know, "Are you ready?" Here,...
Why Should You Create an Environment for Failure?
“Victory has a thousand fathers, defeat is an orphan,” so said Napoleon Bonaparte, and I personally always tend to hide a smirk when, as a Brit in the US, I am asked if “we” (the Brits) celebrate 4th of July - my response is typically, “No, no-one celebrates defeats.”...
HighGear vs. PegaSystems – Lean BPM Goes Head-to-Head with Traditional BPM
We had the very recent opportunity to pitch HighGear against PegaSystems this week, and it was illuminating to see the differences close up between the two solutions. HighGear is the pioneer of Lean BPM or No-Code BPM, whereas PegaSystems is one of the big players in...
Can BPM and Agile Work Together?
The marriage of BPM with Agile has not been a match made in heaven, but rather in the dark murk of the negotiation room for an arranged marriage between two rich kids. Since the early Noughties when Agile was initially paired with BPM, it has shown some sparkling...
Why Effective Workflow Automation is Crucial for Successful Business Performance
Team collaboration across diverse processes and departments is achievable, but not without collaboration between effective workflow design and great task management. HighGear was first conceived as an enterprise task management solution with workflow automation...
Business Process Reengineering (BPR) – Rethinking Failure?
Business Process Reengineering (BPR) was all the rage during the 1990’s, with Fortune 500 companies falling over themselves to re-engineer their enterprises, but for many BPR was synonymous with lay-offs and failure. Driven by inhuman, analytical, engineering...
Business Process Improvement & Customer Experience Metrics: The Outside-In Approach
Do you remember Quality Circles, TQM and CIP? If you do, it’s pretty obvious you cut your professional business process teeth in the Eighties and Nineties. You probably also know of the outstanding work Jan Carlzon did at Scandinavian Airlines, where he turned the...
Pros and Cons of Excel as a Task Tracking Tool
Managing business workflow and task tracking is at the heart of professional project management, and there are a wide range of tools to help you. We are all familiar with PRINCE2, SCRUM and Waterfall terminology, but no matter what methodology you choose to follow,...