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» FEATURED: What Business Analysts Need to Know About Decision-Aware Business Processes

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What Business Analysts Need to Know About Decision-Aware Business Processes

Last month's column introduced a missing model for business analysts. The Decision Model is a normalized rigorous model for business logic like the Relational Model is for data. "Business logic is simply a set of business rules represented as atomic elements of conditions leading to conclusions. As such, business logic represents business thinking ...

» 3 Key Elements of a Lean BPM Solution

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Businesses cope with manual, repetitive tasks to get the job done. Email, conference calls, and "walking the cubes" are too frequently the process for requesting information, getting approvals, and checking project status. Time and resources are wasted, errors abound, and everyone is less productive. Automating these everyday business processes is...

» Information Systems Theory 101

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Systems work is not as hard as you might think. However, we have a tendency in this business to complicate things by changing the vocabulary of systems work and introducing convoluted concepts and techniques, all of which makes it difficult to produce systems in a consistent manner. Consequently, there is a tendency to reinvent the wheel with each ...

» FEATURED: Process-Driven SOA

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Much of the current buzz about SOA has been focussed on the technology (inevitably Web Services) or the importance of reusability. However the real value of SOA is in the improvement to processes and ways of working that reflect the alignment of an organisation with its customers and suppliers. The approach we favour is one that begins by ali...

» Driving Business Efficiency: The Fusion of Process and Project Management

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With current economic conditions, companies are striving to do more with fewer resources, both human and material. So it should be no surprise that the fusion of business processes and practices is both relevant and necessary. Over the past two decades business methodologies and corporate programs have established track records that demonstrate per...

» Detail Process Charts – A Common Ground for Business and Development

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When the first flowcharts were applied to manufacturing processes, they followed the flow of a single part through its manufacture. They displayed, in sequence, the steps it took to make the part and they made sense. They were easy to visualize, easy to follow, easy to work with, and they resulted in millions of dollars worth of product...

» Customer Focus in Process Improvement

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A process is a series of steps completed to achieve a particular result. It is hard to imagine a process improvement effort that doesn’t start with a focus on that result with a question like “What is the purpose of this process?” - whether the customer is actually engaged or not. Sometimes we have a strong sense that our product or service is good...

» FEATURED: SOA What: SOA 101 for Analysts

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In this SOA article I would like to begin by defining what SOA is and what you need to know about it. In future articles, I will explore some of the challenges and benefits of SOA to the analyst community. Let’s start off with a definition of SOA. You can, of course, look at a number of definitions of SOA on the Web, but you will find the...

» FEATURED: Why & How: Business Process Modelling

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Processes are the user interface to a solution – as such they are highly visible and a lot of project effort is focussed on process modelling. In fact, there is a perception in some quarters that Business Analysts just draw process models and this is all they do. However, process models (the drawings of processes) are only one facet of the specific...

» FEATURED: Process Mapping 101: A Guide to Getting Started

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Before starting, it is important to understand process mapping’s place in the larger context of business process improvement. Improving your process typically starts with documenting how it works today, what we call the “as-is” process.

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