1st Edition

Management by Process

By John Jeston, Johan Nelis Copyright 2008
    324 Pages
    by Routledge

    324 Pages
    by Routledge

    Business Processes are one of the critical drivers for any organisation in realizing their organizational strategic objectives. This means that management must constantly review and realign organizational processes to reflect the massively unfixed nature of business demands, such as changing market circumstances; the changing demands of new customer and existing customers; new products and pricing; changes in strategy; and linking processes to new partners and suppliers.

    Establishing and maintaining a process-focused organization is critical as organizations are pressured to keep achieving further growth and profitability, preferably in double digits, whilst the avenues available for achieving this growth are getting more and more restricted due to legislation, global competition and saturation in the market place.
    This highly accessible book provides a clear and thorough exposition of the six key dimensions necessary for the creation of a process-focused organization: * process governance * strategic alignment * methods (execution/implementation) * people * culture * technology.

    Each of these critical Dimensions are given a systematic and revealing treatment, examining each Dimension in terms of: * Importance * Key trends in this area * Elements that comprise the dimension * Detailed description of the elements that comprise the ideal or visionary position * Road map of how to get there from various starting positions.

    Table of Contents
    Contributors
    Foreword
    Preface
    Acknowledgements
    How to read this book
    Part I Overview and case studies
    Chapter 1 Importance of business processes
    Chapter 2 Case studies:
    Introduction
    Citibank Germany
    Nedbank South Africa
    Wealth management organization
    Aveant Home Care
    Part II Management by Process: A roadmap to sustainable BPM
    Chapter 3 Introduction
    Chapter 4 Process leadership
    Chapter 5 Process governance
    Chapter 6 Process performance
    Chapter 7 Strategic alignment
    Chapter 8 People capability
    Chapter 9 Project execution
    Chapter 10 Future of BPM
    Part III Appendices
    Appendix A: Process leadership
    Appendix B: Process governance
    Appendix C: People capability
    Appendix D: Technology
    References and bibliography
    Index

    Biography

    John Jeston, Johan Nelis