Posted by: Derek Weeks in: ● September 19, 2011
Every six months we run a survey about how people are using SharePoint. Some surprising results have been revealed. For instance, in the survey running now through October 1st, we see that BPM/workflow is the #1 third-party app being considered for running on top of the SharePoint platform. In the last survey from Winter 2011, [...]
Posted by: Sandra Moran in: ● May 23, 2011
Achieving process excellence is possible. To do it you can start by bringing together the top performers within your organization to capture what it is that makes them good at what they do. This isn’t always easy because many top performers can’t always easily articulate the underlying reason for their success. We see these top [...]
Posted by: Wendy Werve in: ● May 11, 2011
The Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit in London came to a close yesterday. After two days of insightful keynotes, analyst presentations, workshops and networking, it was clear that business processes and EA are inherently and necessarily linked to one another. In a recent Gartner survey, improving and aligning business processes was cited as an EA priority [...]
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 [...]
Posted by: Ethan Smith in: ● January 25, 2011
As 2011 gets into full swing, I can’t help but think about the impending federal regulations forcing pharmaceutical companies to document, track and report payments to physician and physician owned entities, set to begin at the end of the year. In its annual Predicts 2011 series, Gartner recently published a list of predictions for the [...]
Posted by: Process Matters Blogger in: ● December 20, 2010
Last September, as you probably remember, Allergan reached a $600M settlement regarding its off label promotion of BOTOX—which sparked some interesting dialogue about leveraging business process management software to solve new compliance requirements within the pharmaceutical industry. Starting January 2012, U.S. federal government has required that all pharmaceutical companies document, track and report a wide [...]
