Business process change : a guide for business managers and BPM and six sigma professionals /
Every company wants to improve the way it does business, to produce goods and services more efficiently, and to increase profits. Nonprofit organizations are also concerned with efficiency, productivity, and with achieving the goals they set for themselves. Every manager understands that achieving t...
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Elsevier,
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Publisher Address: | Amsterdam ; Boston : |
Publication Dates: | 2007. |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
Edition: | Second edition. |
Series: |
Business Process Change
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Online Access: |
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780123741523 |
Summary: |
Every company wants to improve the way it does business, to produce goods and services more efficiently, and to increase profits. Nonprofit organizations are also concerned with efficiency, productivity, and with achieving the goals they set for themselves. Every manager understands that achieving these goals is part of his or her job. In this balanced treatment of the field of business process change, Paul Harmon offers concepts, methods, cases for all aspects and phases of successful business process improvement. Updated and added for this edition are coverage of business process managemen |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: |
9780080553672 0080553672 9786611059477 6611059474 |
Index Number: | HF5548 |
CLC: | F713.36 |
Contents: | Companies and Business Processes. -- I: Enterprise Level Concerns. -- Strategy, Business Processes, and Competitive Advantage. -- The Business Architecture and Organizational Alignment. -- Modeling Organizations. -- Process Performance Metrics and Evaluation. -- Organizing and Using an Enterprise BPM Group. -- II: Process Level Concerns. -- Modeling Processes. -- Analyzing Activities. -- Managing and Measuring Business Processes. -- Process Improvement with Lean and Six Sigma. -- A Business Process Redesign Methodology. -- Process Redesign Patterns. -- Knowledge Workers and Business Rules. - |