Business Process Change by Paul Harmon

Business Process Change by Paul Harmon

Every company wants to improve the way it does business, to produce goods and services more efficiently, and to increase profits. Nonprofit organizations are also concerned with efficiency, productivity, and with achieving the goals they set for themselves. Every manager understands that achieving these goals is a part of his or her job. In the wake of the dot-com collapse, managers are trying to figure out how they can take advantage of email, the Internet, and the Web to improve their business process. At the same time, managers are interested in developing business process architectures and measurement systems that align business processes with corporate goals. Managers face many options in approaching these problems. "Business Process Change" provides an overview of the options and describes a variety of business process techniques proven by successful companies over the course of a decade. It focuses on the process change problems faced by today's managers. It summarizes the state of the art of business process analysis and improvement, including the basic vocabulary of modeling. It presents a methodology based on the best practices available that can be tailored for specific needs and that maintains a focus on the human aspects of process redesign. It also offers detailed case studies showing how these methods are implemented.

This book is a must-read for every business manager who wants to manage business process change in an e-business environment; it's a true practitioner's guidebook to the complex world of end-to-end business process managementThe book not only gives an excellent introduction to all aspects of process change management (from analysis or redesign to implementation to monitoring to improvement of business processes), but also provides a comprehensive guide to state-of-the-art techniques and technologies supporting the various aspects of this process (from process design methodologies to realizing business processes via choreography of Web services).Steve Mill, Senior Vice President, IBM Software Group Finally a book that brings it all togetherbackground, theory, and practicein a way that is easily digested by business and IT managers alike. This book is a must-read for anyone contemplating a business change project in order that they understand why a holistic approach is beneficial and how the work they are undertaking will impact others. The concepts and notations presented in the book are straightforward and easy to follow and do not require either weeks of training or an army of outside consultants to help implement them. I feel sure that after reading the book, any manager will come away with two lasting impressions: first, Now I understand where that fits ... and Yes, I can do it.Mark McGregor, Vice President, MEGA International Finally, someone has written a practical guide for those building a business for the information age.Bill Coleman, Founder, Chairman, CSO, BEA Systems When it comes to Business Process Change, Paul Harmons new book is a must-read. It is a great resource for performance improvement professionals.Dr. Roger M. Addison, Director Performance Technologies, International Society for Performance Improvement A great deal has been written about process improvement and business process reengineering, most before its presumed demise and recent resurrection. Much has been written about the Internet and e-business, most before the tech bubble. This book is post-bust; it is the first book to thoroughly discuss the critical link between process, information technology, and the Internetall things that managers must understand if they are to develop and manage sound internal operations that will provide legitimate profits. And it is the managers job to do that. Some of the technical work must be done by business process consultants and IT staff, but the setting of the direction and requirements, the management of the integrating efforts, must be done by managers. That critical role cannot be delegated to the techies. Meeting that management challenge will be made easier by this book.From the foreword by Geary A. Rummler, Founder and Chairman, Performance Design Lab; Co-author, Improving Performance

Paul Harmon is the founder and chief strategy officer of Enterprise Alignment and the executive editor of Business Process Trends Newsletter. He has coauthored many books, including Developing E-Business Systems and Architectures: A Managers Guide, The Object Technology Casebook (Wiley), and the international bestseller Expert Systems: Artificial Intelligence for Business (Wiley).

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ISBN 13	9781558607583
ISBN 10	1558607587
Title	Business Process Change
Author	Paul Harmon
Series	The Morgan Kaufmann Series In Data Management Systems
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Elsevier Science & Technology
Year published	2003-01-01
Number of pages	529
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