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Look — No Hands! Using BPM And Workflow To Drive Work Efficiently Across The Enterprise
July 15, 2009
Series Installment #3 of 5: Using BPM And Workflow To Drive Work Efficiently Across The Enterprise
Do you remember the first time you rode your bike without gripping the handlebar? "Hey — look — no hands!" you probably exclaimed with excitement. If you're lucky, you ended the trip still on your bike, bearing a bright smile rather than a skinned knee.
Planning for a BPM (business process management) and workflow implementation bears some resemblance to riding hands free, only on a larger scale. Whether or not you stay on course isn't just a matter of luck. You need to know where your business is headed, understand what you are striving to achieve, streamline your processes to ensure efficient routing, anticipate the unexpected, keep a sharp eye out for change, and make changes on the fly so you remain steady till the end.
Presuming you've read the first two articles in this series Developing An Enterprise Vision For Business Process Automation and Indexing For The Enterprise: Retrieve Your Documents 100% Of The Time, you already learned the importance of establishing a clear organizational vision. You also know ECM is data driven and you learned tips for effective indexing so information can be found when it's needed and leveraged enterprise-wide. BPM and workflow build on these successes.
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