Strategy and Business Process Management: Techniques for Improving Execution, Adaptability, and Consistency

  • 4h 16m
  • Carl F. Lehmann
  • CRC Press
  • 2012

This book prepares readers to master an IT and managerial discipline quickly gaining momentum in organizations of all sizes – Business Process Management (BPM). It describes how BPM treats processes as a portfolio of strategic assets that create and deliver customer and shareholder value and adapt, when necessary, enabling competitive advantage through consistent performance.

Strategy and Business Process Management: Techniques for Improving Execution, Adaptability, and Consistency defines the planning framework and managerial mindset necessary to craft and drive highly effective business process improvement projects and continuous improvement programs. Readers will learn specific techniques used by industry leaders to formulate and execute business strategy that adapts organizational behavior, business processes, and information technology as a dynamic system designed to assure consistent performance and achievement, even when challenged with unexpected changes or opportunities.

About the Author

Carl F. Lehmann is Founder & Principal Analyst at BPMethods, LLC, Duxbury, Massachusetts, USA.

In this Book

  • Prologue—The Management Team Is Summoned
  • How to Compete: Competitive Strategy
  • How to Focus Operations: The Discipline of Market Leaders
  • How to Manage Performance: The Balanced Scorecard
  • How to Adapt: Adaptive Enterprise
  • How to Structure Organizational Behavior for Strategic Execution
  • How to Structure Business Processes for Strategic Execution
  • How to Structure Technology for Strategic Execution
  • The Derivative Analysis Technique for Business Strategy and Resource Alignment
  • Epilogue—The Management Team Reconvenes
  • Summary of Key Guidance
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