The Leonardo Blog

Too often, the theory, practice and aspirations of process-based management are reduced just to process modeling. A stated intent in some organizations is that “we will model all of our processes”, and this is said as though achievement of this goal would solve some serious business problem. In reality, there is never a business problem called “we don’t have enough process models”, and an inappropriate focus on modeling severely handicaps the achievement of genuine process management. Why model processes? There are four general purposes for process modeling: document, understand, improve, automate.

Business today struggle with implementing business process management. Starting an Office of BPM in a small business can often be seen as too time consuming and a drain on your ROI. But you don't need to employ vast resources in order to accomplish this. Companies can use lean, agile methodologies to gain great benefits in their BPM space with out breaking the budget.