Because Process Matters

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Doing More with Less, the Smart Way

Posted by: Sandra Moran 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 [...]

The Dynamic Side of BPM

Posted by: Alison Cooley 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 [...]

Law Firms Practice Process Improvement

Posted by: Alison Cooley 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 [...]

Responding to the Recession

Posted by: Alison Cooley 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 [...]

City of Norfolk Improves Citizen Service Despite Lean Times

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 [...]

Get Lean to Go Green; It’s 2010!

Posted by: Process Matters Blogger in: ● April 22, 2010

Today is the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, and looking back, it’s amazing how far we’ve come. A little over 2 years after the first Earth Day in 1969, the single chip microprocessor was introduced to the world. In great part this invention catapulted us into a technological revolution.


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