Business Process Management
The well worded adage - what gets measured, gets done
certainly applies to business processes. Business Process Management
is a discipline, often supported by simple technology. There are
many views on how businesses should be measured. Of course, the
appropriate measurement depends upon the type of product or service
produced. Manufacturing process measurements can involve detailed
calculation and measurement tools. In most other types of business,
it is not as complicated as many managers are lead to believe. There
are potentially only 24 items of data needed to be collected, and
by feeding these into a simple reporting tool, such as an Executive
Dashboard, business managers can easily identify if, where and
by how much a business process is meeting target objectives.
Business process management has evolved significantly over the
past 15 years, from the basis of TQM, Just-In-Time Control and many
other variations. The most evolved methodology is known as Six
Sigma. Read more on Quality
Management...
In its most strategically valuable form, business process management
is fully integrated into corporate
strategy using tools such as Balanced
Scorecard.
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