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– Marc Lankhorst, Fabian Aulkemeier In a previous blog post on the features of our collaboration platform, we have explained how you can support people in working together on architectures and other models via structured workflows. In that post, …
In my two previous blog posts, I described dependency analysis and impact analysis. These two kinds of analysis focus on what you might call the steady state of your enterprise, or the enterprise at rest. But there is also the enterprise in…
I have recently found a BPMN2 board game prototype that I made many years ago with the intention to include it in my BPM courses. For some reason, I didn’t finish it and completely forgot about it. Now when I found it and shared a screenshot on LinkedIn, I was surprised by the enthusiastic response. So […]
Organizations involved in major strategic changes such as mergers, acquisitions and divestitures often focus mostly on the financial and market aspects of the change. What is the impact on your market share? How can you increase buying powe…
There is a lot of power in Business Process Management (BPM) and process thinking. Our process flow diagrams describe ‘what is done’, and support us in designing, improving and controlling our processes. The results of processes should be of value to our customers. But how do our customers experience our processes?
Innovation seems to be a buzzword from the end of the 20th century and early 21st century. The past decade innovation was not the only challenge faced by enterprises. In addition – across industries – several other developments have become important to – or at least seem to be so – such as digital transformation, big data, analytics and business intelligence.
This June we’re celebrating our new product launch at BiZZdesign. We have exciting news to share about our new platform, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, as well as feature updates and new functionalities.
Everybody scopes in their daily life at school or work. Mostly this is done without any second thought. Whom is responsible for getting groceries and making dinner? Considering holidays where do I go, with whom and how many days? All these que…
In this blog I would like to demonstrate a way of using performance indicators to improve process performance, as I did in one of my projects. In a previous blog I explained what a performance indicator entails and presented some practical tips for using them. Now I would like to demonstrate the value of using PI’s in practice.
Process models are a powerful means to describe, analyze and communicate processes. However, process models are often outdated and underused. The reasons for this differ. Sometimes it seems that people are unable to read and understand models,…
The division of labour has been the main principle for structuring organisations in the last two centuries. That is still the dominant approach for allocating resources, information and power in companies and public institutions. The new dynamics in a connected world have revealed a rich spectrum of problems related with these structures ranging from ineffective coordination to […]
During Business Process Management trainings, people often ask me about the best modeling technique: How to model a process model? Where do I begin? Questions that many of you have asked yourselves when beginning to design a process model. In …