The five P’s are a good starting point for every BPM dashboard and BI analysis.

Process
Progress
People
Policy
Performance

They cover the five essential areas that need analysing, reporting and monitoring.

The Business Pain: Where are the bottlenecks?
The Business Pain: Who are the slackers? Who is not being efficient?
The Business Pain: What is happening with a specific process instance?
The Business Pain: [...]

There are two main approaches in process management:

BPM (Business Process Management)
ACM (Adaptive Case Management)

The classic BPM methodology is about strict process governance. ACM methodology is about adaptive process governance.

Structured processes vs. Unstructured processes.

A BPM example…

An expense approval process – An employee submits a purchase request. The BPM software platform will send a task to his [...]

The eco-aware generation is making a big impact on business behaviour. The shift from paper based systems to electronic forms has made organisations not only more eco-friendly, but also increased organisational efficiency, business visibility and savings.
Costs – cost of paper, cost of staff dealing with paper , cost of office storage space
Staff – reducing the number [...]

The term Business Process Management (or BPM) refers to activities performed by businesses to optimize their business processes.
A Business Process is a collection of activities and tasks that produce something of value to the organization or its customers. The term workflow refers to the movement of tasks or documents through the business process.
BPM is a set [...]

Business-driven, Business-owned and Business-led – these will be the difference between initiatives that fail and those that succeed. Success with Business Architecture results not just in the obvious bottom line results, but will provide your IT teams with more accurate requirements and a greater insight into how best they can support the  organization.
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Ultimately the only reason to take the time and put in the effort is so that you can ask smarter questions and get smarter answers. Business Architecture will provide you with a decision support system that understands the complexity of your organization. All too often when making one change you risk breaking many other parts.
Your [...]

Often Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) is seen as a check-the-box exercise, whereas it is key to keeping you in business and your executives out of jail! These are the two things that rank highest on most executive agendas. Of course it can also contribute considerable overhead in the running of your business.

Much overhead comes [...]

Sometimes when working on architecture initiatives we forget what business is about – winning and retaining customers who spend in ways that are profitable for our organization. If we don’t do this then we have no business. So the reality is that a key purpose of our Business Architecture has to be to help deliver [...]

Having stored, connected and communicated information in our data store for sharing, we now go further and use the information in ways that enables people within the organization to collaborate. Organizations around the globe are seeking smarter ways of enabling people within and across departments, functions and teams to work together. As a part of [...]

This step addresses a significant issue in business – how to link different functional groups within the business. It connects different initiatives within those areas and enables greater reuse. People often talk about Business/IT alignment – we suggest this is flawed. Instead we need to integrate them! There is no such thing as IT projects, [...]