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Posted in Change Management, Process Analysis, Project Management on Aug 12th, 2011
To use the SWOT technique in your BPM project use the following guidelines when building the matrix or table: Strengths: characteristics of the BPM project that give it an advantage over other potential projects competing for the same budget or staff resources. This might be a ROI analysis or support of important goals and objectives [...]
Posted in Process Mapping on Apr 19th, 2011
Getting started with processes Getting Started with processes is often a messy affair. Usually we have a number of factors that cause us to pay attention to this issue. These include: Someone or something is making us document our processes Our process is broken and needs to be fixed Everyone has a different idea of [...]
Posted in Change Management, Process Improvement, Project Management on Mar 7th, 2011
How many times does a project fail because the members don’t believe it’s doable. Unrealistic goals and objectives are often to blame. Sometimes timelines because the project started too late, others because of lack of resources. It doesn’t really matter, the project is likely to fail because the team don’t believe in it. Here is [...]
Posted in Change Management, Process Improvement, Project Management on Mar 5th, 2011
Another major factor for success of a project is management support. This can take many forms, but if you don’t have the following from your executives then problem are going to occur. Budget support. Do we have the money in place to do the job? Is the organization committed? A real budget shows commitment. An [...]
Posted in Change Management, Project Management on Feb 12th, 2011
There are a lot of different ways to bring the team together for your latest project. Here are a few of them that have worked well for us over the years. Focus on projects that support corporate goals for that year If a transition is going on, pick projects at the tip of the arrow [...]
Posted in Change Management, Process Improvement on Jan 6th, 2011
More details here courtesy Harvard Computing Group When your documented processes have been completely analyzed it is time to move onto the process improvement process so that you can take advantage of the items discovered during process analysis. The first step in initiating a process improvement project is to appoint a process improvement team. This [...]
Posted in Change Management, Process Improvement on Dec 26th, 2010
When a business case is required, the first Task in those process is to prepare the business case. Base the business case on the requirements document, existing process maps (if available), and the ROI (return on investment) calculator. Preparation of the business case should be done by the Business Analyst with the assistance of [...]
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