Posted by: Derek Weeks in: ● February 20, 2012
Inefficient processes can make or break your organizations ability to succeed. Each year organizations dish out hundreds, even millions, of dollars leveraging the wrong resources to try and improve ineffective business processes. Companies that are unable to adapt to new industry regulations, changing business models and competitor innovation are facing the reality of failure. The [...]
Posted by: Derek Weeks in: ● August 17, 2011
A few weeks ago I was paging through an issue of Mother Jones and the article, “All Work and No Pay: The Great Speedup” caught my eye. The story discussed how more and more, managers are asking their employees to take on heavier workloads with longer hours without any incentives. What was even more striking [...]
Posted by: Derek Weeks in: ● March 23, 2011
One goal of business process management (BPM) is to automate and streamline human-centric business processes with the intent of benefiting from lower costs, increased productivity, greater control and better response times. However, not all processes are easily automated and governed. Many organizational processes are often unstructured in their nature and simply cannot be mapped out [...]
Posted by: Derek Weeks in: ● November 30, 2010
How can law firms increase revenue? With the complexity of today’s markets, one of the only ways to gain a competitive advantage is to identify and perfect key business practices, while maintaining superior customer service and increasing profitability. Identifying ways to cut costs, reduce time wasted, rev up productivity and outperform the competition can be [...]
Posted by: Derek Weeks in: ● September 15, 2010
As unemployment rates continue to rise and the speculation surrounding a double-dip recession increases, many businesses continue to face difficult decisions in order to remain profitable and competitive during this economic downturn. Now more than ever businesses are searching for a way to dramatically reduce costs, rev up efficiency, and make the most out of [...]
Posted by: Metastorm PR in: ● June 3, 2010
CivSource, a premiere publication writing about technology and policy issues facing state and local governments in the United States, recently wrote a detailed story on Metastorm customer City of Norfolk, VA. CivSource editor Jeff Smith met with and interviewed Mary White, Norfolk’s leader in business process automation, at the recently concluded 2010 Metastorm Global User [...]