Archive for the ‘Business Process Management (BPM)’ Category
We recently heard a traffic analyst from the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) speak about traffic analytics. Living in a city with the fourth-worst automobile traffic in the US, the topic was particularly engaging. The analyst spoke about the need for data management in traffic analytics. Using traffic-counting devices placed strategically along Austin’s freeways, TxDOT [...]
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Tags: Business Intelligence, Business Process, Content Management, Data Management, Efficiency, Process Improvement, Process Management
Rule.fm is one of the latest start-up business productivity suites to appear on the map. “Making productivity accessible, affordable, reliable, and fun,” Rule.fm’s capabilities include people, project, document, and time management. More are on the way. Before we assess Rule.fm, let’s look at business productivity suites in the bigger picture. Every business – or at [...]
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Tags: Efficiency, Enterprise Collaboration, out-of-the-box, Process Management, Project Management, Rule.fm, Software
There are many browser-based business productivity apps to choose from. Some help you manage projects. Some are accounting tools. Others enable you to share and edit documents. Few applications, however, allow you to do all of the above. Microsoft SharePoint is one of those tools. And SharePoint doesn’t only do “all of the above” – [...]
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Tags: Business Process, Process, process automation, Process Management, Project Management, SharePoint, SharePoint how-to
If you search for “ROI of BPM” in Google, you’ll find a host of ROI calculators and links that will “MAXIMIZE” your BPM ROI. The query results are no surprise. ROI matters most in BPM – it’s the bottom line. There’s little doubt that most BPM initiatives generate a positive ROI. A recent Gartner study [...]
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Tags: BPM, Business Process, Business Value, Efficiency, Enterprise Collaboration, IT, Process, process automation, Process Management, ROI
Richard Veryard’s thought-provoking powerpoint “Technologies for Organizational Intelligence” claims that intelligent organizations: recognize that business opportunities are complex respond to them coherently pay attention to weak and strong signs of inefficiencies for the purpose of collective learning and innovation Veryard stresses later that intelligence is vital to a business’ survival. That idea should not sound [...]
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Tags: Business Intelligence, Business Process, Business Value, Operations Improvements, Process, Process Management
