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Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance

Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance

by Michael E. Porter

The essential complement to the pathbreaking book Competitive Strategy, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Advantage explores the underpinnings of competitive advantage in the individual firm. With over 30 printings in English and translated into thirteen languages, this second volume in Porter's landmark trilogy describes how a firm actually gains an advantage over its rivals. Competitive Advantage introduces... (more)

Business Process Management: The Third Wave

Business Process Management: The Third Wave

by Howard Smith

This book heralds a breakthrough that redefines competitive advantage for the next fifty years. Don't bridge the business-IT divide: Obliterate it! The book is the first authoritative analysis of how third-wave business process management (BPM) changes everything in business and what it portends. While the vision of process management is not new, existing theories and systems have not been able to cope with the... (more)

Human Interactions: The Heart And Soul Of Business Process Management: How People Reallly Work And How They Can Be Helped To Work Better

Human Interactions: The Heart And Soul Of Business Process Management: How People Reallly Work And How They Can Be Helped To Work Better

by Keith Harrison-Broninski

Despite advances in business automation over the past fifty years, the heart and soul of every organization is still its people--without whom the organization will stop dead in its tracks. Yet there is presently no complete way to manage the complex, continually changing work processes carried out by humans--and current work support technologies treat people as if they were cogs in a machine. Frankly, we need to... (more)

In Search Of BPM Excellence: Straight From The Thought Leaders

In Search Of BPM Excellence: Straight From The Thought Leaders

by Business Process Management Group

Business process innovation is on the minds of executives these days, and for good reason. In the 1990s, companies also had a focus on business processes. They used enterprise-wide networks to tear down walls between functional departments and reengineered their companies to remain competitive. Today, the universal connectivity of the Internet makes it possible to tear down walls between companies to reinvent... (more)

Business Process Management: Profiting From Process

Business Process Management: Profiting From Process

by Roger T. Burlton

Learn the concepts and transform your business! See why process management is an inevitable trend that won't go away. Understand why relationship management needs effective processes to work. Define your stakeholders and determine their needs. Discover what other organizations have done to manage processes successfully. Explore a complete framework for managing business, process, and human change. Apply your... (more)

Workflow Modeling: Tools for Process Improvement and Application Development

Workflow Modeling: Tools for Process Improvement and Application Development

by Alec Sharp

Providing proven techniques for identifying, modelling and redesigning business processes, and explaining how to implement workflow improvement, this book aims to help define requirements for systems development or systems acquisition.

Improving Performance: How to Manage the White Space in the Organization Chart (Jossey Bass Business and Management Series)

Improving Performance: How to Manage the White Space in the Organization Chart (Jossey Bass Business and Management Series)

by Geary A. Rummler

Streamline the processes vital to optimum performance With over 100,000 copies sold worldwide, Improving Performance is recognized as the book that launched the Process Improvement revolution. It was the first such approach to bridge the gap between organization strategy and the individual. Now, in this revised and expanded new edition, Rummler and Brache reflect on the key needs of organizations faced... (more)

Business Process Management (BPM) is a Team Sport: Play it to Win!

Business Process Management (BPM) is a Team Sport: Play it to Win!

by Andrew Spanyi

This book is best suited to those business leaders who have a burning desire to win. It's a book with a compelling message about the resurgence of business process thinking for competitive advantage. In an easy-to-read format, the book outlines why and how thoughtful CEO’s and leadership teams can manage enterprise business processes as the means to transform their good companies into great ones. Spanyi's... (more)

Mastering Your Organization's Processes: A Plain Guide to BPM

Mastering Your Organization's Processes: A Plain Guide to BPM

by John O'Connell

Understanding and improving your organization's business processes is vital in today's economy. Using non-technical language, this book describes the importance of these processes and the internal and external forces that shape them. It then explains the kinds of computer software available for improving and managing business processes in a flexible way. Detailed case studies illustrate that successful process... (more)

The Complete Idiot's Guide to MBA Basics

The Complete Idiot's Guide to MBA Basics

by Ed Paulson, Tom Gorman

A revised edition of the popular classic, this title features updated topics to build MBA knowledge. Students and managers alike will learn about management skills, business operations, financial statements, marketing, product development, customer service, strategic planning, information management, and quality management. Updated coverage includes global and international business, knowledge management,... (more)

Business Rules Applied: Building Better Systems Using the Business Rules Approach

Business Rules Applied: Building Better Systems Using the Business Rules Approach

by Barbara Von Halle

From a bestselling author and expert--a soon-to-be classic on application development Representing a significant change of focus in software engineering, the business rule approach to application development benefits all decision makers. Managers looking to take advantage of new opportunities will turn to business rules to implement change. IT has already learned the benefits of separating data by processing... (more)

Workflow Management: Models, Methods, and Systems (Cooperative Information Systems)

Workflow Management: Models, Methods, and Systems (Cooperative Information Systems)

by Wil van der Aalst

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to workflow management, the management of business processes with information technology. By defining, analyzing, and redesigning an organization’s resources and operations, workflow management systems ensure that the right information reaches the right person or computer application at the right time. The book provides a basic overview of workflow terminology and... (more)

Enterprise Transformation: Understanding and Enabling Fundamental Change (Wiley Series in Systems Engineering and Management)

Enterprise Transformation: Understanding and Enabling Fundamental Change (Wiley Series in Systems Engineering and Management)

This landmark book begins with the premise that an organization must often fundamentally transform its business practices and organizational culture to fully align with and realize the value of product and process innovations. The methods and practices that are set forth give readers the tools to create the essential organizational transformations needed to meet the challenges of a complex, rapidly evolving global... (more)

Thrive!: How to Succeed in the Age of the Customer

Thrive!: How to Succeed in the Age of the Customer

by Steve Towers, Mark McGregor

How much time do you spend looking at the ways things get done inside your business? It is a fair guess to say that a massive chunk of corporate resources go into such efforts, whether it is in IT, finance, sales, marketing, or operations. But seeking internal improvements in your business is no longer enough. The world's leading companies now look outward to emphasize a deep understanding of their... (more)

Service Oriented Enterprises

by Setrag Khoshafian

This comprehensive resource covers all the components, issues, standards, and technologies that create a service-oriented enterprise. Filled with real-world examples, Service Oriented Enterprises shows IT managers, CIOs, software architects and software developers, and innovative and practical service-oriented solutions. Its framework for aligning services with business goals empowers IT executives to make the... (more)

Extreme Competition: Innovation And the Great 21st Century Business Reformation

Extreme Competition: Innovation And the Great 21st Century Business Reformation

by Peter Fingar

There are some fierce new competitors on the block, ready to engage your company, and you personally, in extreme competition. In this riveting new book, Peter Fingar and his colleagues from around the globe sound a penetrating wake-up call to governments, companies, and individuals alike. Bringing great urgency to the book's pages, Fingar makes it crystal clear that we are not on the brink of a great transition... (more)

The Real-Time Enterprise : Competing on Time with the Revolutionary Business S-Ex Machine

The Real-Time Enterprise : Competing on Time with the Revolutionary Business S-Ex Machine

by Peter Fingar

There is no doubt something new is going on in business, though it may not be clear exactly what . . . Why is it that, given two companies with approximately the same assets and number of skilled employees, one struggles and the other grows profits? From where do those profits come? The answer is that they come from how work gets done: how companies "do" what they do, how they operate. "Operational... (more)

Design and Control of Workflow Processes: Business Process Management for the Service Industry (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Design and Control of Workflow Processes: Business Process Management for the Service Industry (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

by Hajo A. Reijers

This monograph is devoted to advancing the scientific knowledge about the design and control of workflow processes. The author focuses on the following four issues in the area of business process management: - adequate workflow modeling - workflow design and redesign - performance evaluation of workflow processes - optimal resource allocation in an operational workflow. All in all, this book, providing... (more)

Workflow Handbook 2005

by Layna Fischer

Workflow Handbook 2006

by Layna Fischer

FOREWORD, Jon Pyke, Chair WfMC, United Kingdom INTRODUCTION, Layna Fischer, Executive Director, Workflow Management Coalition, United States SECTION 1Â—THE WORLD OF WORKFLOW AND BPM * BPM IN CONTEXT: NOW AND IN THE FUTURE, Jon Pyke, WfMC Chair, United Kingdom * PRACTICAL LESSONS IN MANAGING REAL BPM INNOVATION, Fred van Leeuwen, DCE Consultants, Netherlands * WORKFLOWÂ—THE COMPLIANCE PROJECT ENGINE, Arnaud... (more)

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by Michael E. Porter

by Howard Smith

by Keith Harrison-Broninski

by Business Process Management Group

by Roger T. Burlton

by Alec Sharp

by Geary A. Rummler

by Andrew Spanyi

by John O'Connell

by Ed Paulson, Tom Gorman

by Barbara Von Halle

by Wil van der Aalst

by Steve Towers, Mark McGregor

by Setrag Khoshafian

by Peter Fingar

by Peter Fingar

by Hajo A. Reijers

by Layna Fischer

by Layna Fischer