--- title: Discussing all thing Process! | Roger Tregear (2) description: "Roger is a Consulting Associate with Leonardo. He delivers consulting and education assignments around the world. This work has involved many industry sectors, diverse cultures, and organization types. Roger briefs executives, coach managers, and support project teams to develop process-based management. Several thousand people have attended Roger's training courses and seminars in many countries - and Roger frequently presents at international business conferences. Roger has been writing a column on BPTrends called Practical Process for over 10 years. This led to the 2013 book of the same name. In 2011, he co-authored Establishing the Office of Business Process Management. He contributed a chapter in The International Handbook on Business Process Management (2010, 2015). With Paul Harmon in 2016, Roger co-edited Questioning BPM?, a book discussing key BPM questions. Roger's own book, Reimagining Management, was published in 2016. 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He delivers consulting and education assignments around the world. This work has involved many industry sectors, diverse cultures, and organization types. Roger briefs executives, coach managers, and support project teams to develop process-based management. Several thousand people have attended Roger's training courses and seminars in many countries - and Roger frequently presents at international business conferences. Roger has been writing a column on BPTrends called Practical Process for over 10 years. This led to the 2013 book of the same name. In 2011, he co-authored Establishing the Office of Business Process Management. He contributed a chapter in The International Handbook on Business Process Management (2010, 2015). With Paul Harmon in 2016, Roger co-edited Questioning BPM?, a book discussing key BPM questions. Roger's own book, Reimagining Management, was published in 2016. [![](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/3842749/Pack-1%20Assets/Linkedin%20(1)%20(1).png) ](https://au.linkedin.com/in/rogertregear) [![](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/3842749/Pack-1%20Assets/Twitter%20(2)%20(1).png) ](http://twitter.com/rogertregear) ### Recent Posts: ## [How To Replace Random Acts of Management With a Metamodel of Improvement](https://blog.leonardo.com.au/how-to-replace-random-acts-of-management-with-a-metamodel-of-improvement) The simple existence of a problem is not enough reason to invest in fixing it, perhaps not now, perhaps not ever. Organizations need a systemic approach to define what good looks like, assess current performance, and make evidence-based decisions about which performance gaps to close. The Tregear Circles replace random acts of management with a metamodel for continuous process improvement. I have recently encountered several examples of the idea that higher process performance target scores are obviously better than lower ones, just because they are … well … higher; that setting a target of, say, 95% is, without doubt, better than a target of 88%, and in striving for improvement we should go 'as high as possible'. - [Roger Tregear](https://blog.leonardo.com.au/author/roger-tregear) - 6 min read - May 8, 2019 6:25:00 AM ## [Forget the distracting buzzwords - focus on organisational improvement instead.](https://blog.leonardo.com.au/forget-the-distracting-buzzwords-focus-on-organisational-improvement) The development of organizational management theory should seek to make operational management simpler, not more complex. Is it possible that the primary goal of organizational performance improvement gets lost in the ever-increasing list of shiny objects such as transformation, digitalization, robotization, valuation, acceleration, innovation, automation, and disruption? Are the -ion ideas a distraction or a boon for good management? "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry [1] - [Roger Tregear](https://blog.leonardo.com.au/author/roger-tregear) - 6 min read - Apr 11, 2019 6:31:00 PM ## [3 Ways to Measure the Usefulness of BPM](https://blog.leonardo.com.au/measuring-bpm-usefulness) In the fair dinkum department, the most important question about BPM must be "is it worth the effort?" It works in theory, but does it work in practice? What is the return on process? How should we measure, and report, the outcomes of process-based management? The Wrong Answer Let's deal with the wrong answer first. It's not about the artifacts. No organization has a business problem called "we don't have enough process models." It is not a business improvement outcome to say we've trained 50 people on Six Sigma analysis, or appointed some process owners, or modelled a process architecture, or assigned process KPIs — these are all necessary, but none is sufficient. To the executive not yet fully engaged with the promise of process-based management, all this activity might sound more like a problem than a solution, more like a waste of resources than a successful outcome. And if that is all that is happening, she would be correct. We need good models, architecture, methods, and training — a metamodel of management — they are a means to an end, but not an end in themselves. Just having management tools is not the point; we must use them to deliver real organizational performance improvement. If our process management and improvement activities are not delivering measurable, objective, proven organizational performance improvements — improvements better than we might have otherwise achieved — then our process activity is, by our own definitions, waste. - [Roger Tregear](https://blog.leonardo.com.au/author/roger-tregear) - 6 min read - Apr 3, 2019 4:53:17 PM ## [What Are The Consequences of Unbalanced BPM?](https://blog.leonardo.com.au/what-are-the-consequences-of-unbalanced-bpm) As some readers will know from my previous writing, for example here, there, and everywhere, I take a broad view of BPM, seeing it as a management philosophy, preferring the term process-based management over business process management. A brief summary of that view is as follows. An organization's resources are managed 'vertically' via the organization chart. Value is created, accumulated, and delivered 'horizontally' across that chart, i.e., via cross-functional processes. Value is accumulated across, not up and down, the functional organization as the various parts collaborate to create, accumulate, and deliver value in the form of a desired product or service. It follows that an organization executes its strategic intent via its business processes. In this context, where cross-functional processes are key to the delivery of value and execution of strategy, the improvement and management of processes is critical to the optimization of an organization's performance. BPM is not a one-off project, nor an IT system; it is a management philosophy. - [Roger Tregear](https://blog.leonardo.com.au/author/roger-tregear) - 6 min read - Mar 21, 2019 6:21:00 PM ## [8 Benefits For Your Business When BPM is Managed Right](https://blog.leonardo.com.au/8-benefits-for-your-business-when-bpm-is-managed-right) For nearly two decades I have worked with many organizations in different countries, cultures, and corporate structures to understand and advance the theory and practice of process-based management. There is a common problem, a change of mindset and practice that many organizations fail to make. Process improvement alone is not enough. 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