This term "BPM" shows up in the sales brochures of countless vendors and consultants, as well as a recent survey conducted by AIIM (survey findings not released as of today). Companies selling IT products or management consulting services see that BPM jargon du jour has been building momentum in the private sector for a few years now, and so are defining BPM to mean whatever they think will help them sell something.
BPM is sometimes described as a business discipline or function that uses business practices, techniques and methods to create and improve business processes. Under this general definition, just about any process improvement discipline or activity, including ISO 9000, Total Quality Management, or Six Sigma methods might fit. BPM is also used to describe IT products that work with business quality approaches.
Tonight, Thursday, May 31, 2007, Arthur J. Hedge III is scheduled to speak to an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers function in New Jersey. Mr. Hedge is a member of the AIIM Document Management standards committee and spoke on BPM topics at this year's annual AIIM event in April.
His talk tonight is described as a description of the various software elements that together make up a BPM solution and open source versions of those software elements.
There are over 100 vendors that develop products in the BPM software market. Sometimes, these products are marketed as tools that allow organizations to design, automate, and manage the activities of knowledge workers from within one platform.
Mr. Hedge III will be throwin' it down old skool at the Morris County Library in Whippany, New Jersey tonight, just minutes away from Molly Malone's Irish-American Restaurant.
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