To succeed at BPM, you have to understand what makes your company special, and identify the processes that support and define your uniqueness. To insure that the best process is selected for your BPM project, it’s important to have senior management sponsorship to establish a cross-enterprise team consisting of both LOB and IT in partnership.
Once you have the team, you need to select a process that will differentiate the business. Successful projects start with a painful and visible process that will yield the greatest return with allowable risk. Determining what this process is can be done in a number of ways. One option is utilizing an BPM Engagement Framework. The framework utilizes an assessment questionnaire to determine a risk and strategy analysis. It will enable and organization to understand its level of adoption, and provide starting points utilizing the appropriate software and providing specific next steps.
You can also consider leveraging Business Modeling Services to help you determine the critical business process to focus on, and to provide the justification from a strategic and financial perspective.
After selecting the process, you’ll need to model it to perform simulations to determine the most optimal business performance. These simulations will show the impact of process changes to the business. Predicting business outcomes can help justify resource investments based on the best projected ROI.
The IBM WebSphere Business Modeler is a business analyst tool which is used to define, model, simulate, and improve on business processes. This tool helps business analysts define and optimize their processes, while justifying process changes through return on investment (ROI) calculations. It is an open standards-oriented product, operating on the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE). WebSphere Business Modeler products can drive more granular business insight and knowledge by thoroughly and visually defining those business tasks which are critical to your firm’s ongoing success.
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