• BPM Basics
• Designing BPM
• Monitoring, Optimizing and Automating BPM
• Languages and Standards
• BPM Resource

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Designing BPM

A Brave New Process Design Paradigm (eBizQ)
Is your organization creating new or redesigning existing business processes? Take a few minutes to read this paper by Forrester analyst Randy Heffner, where he outlines a new approach to smart business process design.

Best Practice Business Process Design (SM Thacker & Assoc.)
Design in general is both an art and a science. While this site may be light on the former, they have plenty of the latter to make up for poor site design. Browse more than 200 Best Practices articles and some 80 training courses, many of which may be directly relevant to your BPM project.

Multiple Dimensions of Business Process Modeling (eBizQ)
What are the relevant criteria for creating suitable business processing standards? That depends on the scope of the project, but also on the dimensions involved - managerial, IT or customer. These days, most BPM initiatives tap into all three, but this guide will help you juggle them all.

Learn Process Modeling Basics (IBM)
Need to get up to speed on BPM modeling quickly? This introductory crash course intended for analysts explains basic concepts like the analyst-developer relationship, how to enforce policies, using performance indicators and much more.

The Seven Fallacies of Business Process Execution (InfoQ)
The BPM promise is largely unfilled due to the widespread failure of management to approach the issue from an execution point of view. Read the reasoning behind this and six more critical fallacies in blogger Jean-Jacques Dubray's in-depth analysis of the current BPM market shortcomings.