Business Process Management For Dummies

Compliments of The time is now to use BPM to give your organization the edge it’s been looking for • Ways to achieve compliance • Tips for controlling your costs • How IBM can help you transform your organization with BPM Business Process Management In today’s dynamic business environment, your organization needs to be ready to turn signals from the marketplace into strategic plays. BPM helps you quickly find and execute on missed opportunities trapped inside day-to-day operational processes. By unleashing the power of technology as a competitive advantage, your entire enterprise becomes far more agile, helping you meet your goals. BPM creates value through growth, improved performance, better productivity, higher staff effectiveness, and better customer service. Open the book and find: s s e c o r P s s Busine t n e m e g a Man • Increase your productivity — in today’s economy you need to do more with less • Apply BPM principles — to help your enterprise increase its productivity • Take advantage of the new market opportunities — with BPM, you can be a market maker and leave your competition behind • Reach the global market — BPM streamlines your supply chain operations to take advantage of opportunities wherever they may exist Making Everything Easier! ™ Learn: • How BPM can help your organization Go to Dummies.com® for videos, step-by-step examples, how-to articles, or to shop! • How to become more agile • To be more responsive to the needs of your clients • How to turn market opportunities into revenue streams • Accelerate innovation — let BPM transform your organization into an innovative machine Underdahl ISBN: 978-1-118-01415-8 Part #: WSM14002-USEN-00 Not for resale n IBM Limited Editio Brian Underdahl These materials are the copyright of Wiley Publishing, Inc. and any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. Untitled-1 1 2/8/11 7:00 PM Business Process Management FOR DUMmIES ‰ IBM LIMITED EDITION by Brian Underdahl These materials are the copyright of Wiley Publishing, Inc. and any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. Business Process Management For Dummies®, IBM Limited Edition Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 111 River Street Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774 www.wiley.com Copyright © 2011 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without the prior written permission of the Publisher. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, (201) 748-6011, fax (201) 748-