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Summary: BPM at its best. Ignore the ... and read this.
Review: This is from your writers and the BPMG perspective the biggest thing to hit the process scene since 1993. If you have a vested interest in your organisations success you need to read and understand this work. I promise you that you will never look at processes in the same way again.Relating to the business managers and practitioners this book demonstrates that BPM design and deployment go hand in hand. There is not the great gulf in bridging the 'IT divide' which caused so many failures as reengineered processes fell into the chasm. Put simply the divide itself disappears by moving the process development to the process owners. This simple and glaringly obvious evolutionary step is now achievable as the technology is finally mature and accessible enough to integrate it as part of the process. The technology is now no longer something you do to the process after it has been designed. Should you buy? Absolutely. Steve Towers - ...
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Summary: It's not going to happen...it is happening! Field Notes
Review: We have collectively read "BPM, the Third Wave" in our BPMS (Business Process Management System) company (Savvion, Inc.) and can validate through literally hundreds of engagements we have had with leading companies that Fingar and Smith are both pragmatic and prophetic in their analysis. Bottom line: this book is a great resource to understand the BPM space. Don't be afraid of some of the supporting concepts that are there simply to logically prove their hypothesis. (Six Sigma, Process calculi, BPML, Pi-Calculus, etc. - each of these subjects could be a book in it's own right!) While critical, they are not the core point of the book -- the coming transformation of where business value is going to be generated is. After all, knowing the chemical composition of tire rubber and exactly why it doesn't turn brittle and break when it freezes never stopped me from driving my car in the winter. Just so you all know, technology people end up loving BPM once understood and implemented -- and are more empowered than ever to impact the organizations where they work because they can focus on VALUE ADDED tasks. (Meeting time saved alone justifies a BPMS.) A true BPMS can get everyone involved in a business process focused on adding value, and that is the best job security you can ask for. (Internal or external.) Smith and Fingar do not demonize the role of the IT professional in this book...they simply redefine it in a way that makes perfect sense. In fact, it is obvious in our experience that if you understand and implement a BPM strategy that everyone's role is enhanced from the business side to the IT side. "Obliterating the IT/Business Divide" is not overstating it at all... Why should a business analyst (or any process owner) be forced to educate an application programmer on the multiple facets of a given business process, which then gets translated to a programming team, that then gets built into a technology stack, (new or extended) - put into production...only to find out that all of that investment was wasted because a key business condition changed, or worse? (And we wonder where all the money went...) If you are an IT professional, it is critical you read and understand what is being said in this book so you can proactively manage your career to be that value-added player with job security in the future. If you are coming at this from the business side...dramatic and sustainable competitive advantage is available to you as a result of BPM if you can grasp it and learn to drive it...
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Summary: Validation from my real-world experience for this book!
Review: We have collectively read "BPM, the Third Wave" in our BPMS (Business Process Management System) company and can validate through literally hundreds of engagements we have had with leading companies that Fingar and Smith are both pragmatic and prophetic in their analysis. Bottom line: this book is a great resource to understand the BPM space. Don't be afraid of some of the supporting concepts that are there simply to logically prove their hypothesis. (Six Sigma, Process calculi, BPML, Pi-Calculus, etc. - each one is a book in it's own right!) While critical, they are not the core point of the book -- the coming transformation of where business value is going to be generated is. Little note from the field...technology people are starting to really get it, and end up loving BPM once they actually see and work with one -- and are more empowered than ever to impact the organizations where they work because they can focus on VALUE ADDED tasks. A true BPMS can get everyone involved in a business process focused on adding value, and that is the best job security you can ask for. Smith and Fingar do not demonize the role of the IT professional in this book...they simply redefine it in a way that makes perfect sense. In fact, it is obvious in our experience that if you understand and implement a BPM strategy that everyone's role is enhanced from the business side to the IT side. "Obliterating the IT/Business Divide" is not overstating it at all... Why should a business analyst (or any process owner) be forced to educate an application programmer on the multiple facets of a given business process, which then gets translated to a programming team, that then gets built into a technology stack, (new or extended) - put into production...only to find out that all of that investment was wasted because a key business condition changed, or worse? (And we wonder where all the money went...) If you are an IT professional, it is critical you read and understand what is being said in this book so you can proactively manage your career to be that value-added player. If you are coming at this from the business side...dramatic and sustainable competitive advantage is available to you as a result of BPM if you can grasp it.
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Summary: Validation from my real-world experience for this book!
Review: We have collectively read "BPM, the Third Wave" in our BPMS (Business Process Management System) company and can validate through literally hundreds of engagements we have had with leading companies that Fingar and Smith are both pragmatic and prophetic in their analysis. Bottom line: this book is a great resource to understand the BPM space. Don't be afraid of some of the supporting concepts that are there simply to logically prove their hypothesis. (Six Sigma, Process calculi, BPML, Pi-Calculus, etc. - each one is a book in it's own right!) While critical, they are not the core point of the book -- the coming transformation of where business value is going to be generated is. Little note from the field...technology people are starting to really get it, and end up loving BPM once they actually see and work with one -- and are more empowered than ever to impact the organizations where they work because they can focus on VALUE ADDED tasks. A true BPMS can get everyone involved in a business process focused on adding value, and that is the best job security you can ask for. Smith and Fingar do not demonize the role of the IT professional in this book...they simply redefine it in a way that makes perfect sense. In fact, it is obvious in our experience that if you understand and implement a BPM strategy that everyone's role is enhanced from the business side to the IT side. "Obliterating the IT/Business Divide" is not overstating it at all... Why should a business analyst (or any process owner) be forced to educate an application programmer on the multiple facets of a given business process, which then gets translated to a programming team, that then gets built into a technology stack, (new or extended) - put into production...only to find out that all of that investment was wasted because a key business condition changed, or worse? (And we wonder where all the money went...) If you are an IT professional, it is critical you read and understand what is being said in this book so you can proactively manage your career to be that value-added player. If you are coming at this from the business side...dramatic and sustainable competitive advantage is available to you as a result of BPM if you can grasp it.
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