There are best practices, standard operating procedures and several types of processes in the business world. Processes help maintain order and provide guidelines for a smooth workflow. They are what ...

A self-management team is a group of workers assigned to perform a specific job for a company. Instead of loosely connected workers performing separate tasks, a self management team performs a defined ...

As businesses try to do more with less and respond to economic pressures, they are naturally interested in reducing costs by improving processes throughout their organizations. A number of ...

To say there’s been a paradigm shift in business process management is the understatement of the century! Every business owner or manager not only KNOWS that, but has experienced the results of the ...

I mapped my first business process diagram over 35 years ago when I joined Accenture. I used a hierarchical diagram format called IDEF0 to describe an ERP system we were implementing at a U.K. defense ...

Business process management is a very mature technology and methodology and yet it is finding new uses as companies push for digital transformation. BPM, or business process management, is both a ...

High-performing companies make business process improvement a core competency. These leading firms share a common characteristic: they continually find clever ways to improve the process of process ...

Business process outsourcing involves the outsourcing of business functions to external companies. To clarify, many companies outsource tasks to external providers. An example may be hiring a ...

Whether renovating a 100 year old house or working to modernize a 245 year old organization, sometimes it takes digging down to a solid foundation to build bigger, better and stronger. Such a ...