compliance to standards as one of the numerous
process management tasks and these same modules
cater for the effective process management activity
across the organisation for a range of other PoPM
usage scenarios.
5.3 Learnings and Further
Development of the BPM-D
Application
The integrated and intuitive nature of the BPM-D
Application proved to be very popular with the pilot
organisation’s finance users. The compliance
activities now require less time to execute and are
thus more diligently performed. The fact that the user
community works on-line ensures that they are
executing the latest version of the controls and there
is an excitement to apply the same approach in other
parts of the group.
A very exciting by-product of the implementation
was that the related process models now more
accurately reflect the business operations and there is
an incentive to ensure that they are properly
understood and kept current. The ownership for these
models has moved from being with one lonely
process owner to being much more effectively
managed in a collaborative way by the broader
stakeholder community.
This has made the finance team much more aware
of the benefits of value-driven process management.
They are looking to extend their capability and
simultaneously extending their adoption of the BPM-
D Application functionality.
In the next steps of the agile development of the
BPM-D Application the following modules will be
added:
• Target Value – strategy-driven process impact
assessment
• BPM Capability Assessment – capability
assessments report maintenance
• Process Data – Managing and maintaining further
process context
• Governance – the setup of user roles,
responsibilities and content access rights
• Process Agenda – the ability to create business
case reports as a result of assessments
These developments will be combined with the
launch of the implementation of new usage scenarios
for the process control related modules and the
integrated support of people change management and
process-oriented community management. In that
way more and more of the discovered PoPM gaps will
be closed while already creating benefits through
existing BPM-D Application components.
6 CONCLUSION
The first step of the digitalization of the PoPM has
proven the initial hypothesis that this will
significantly increase the performance of the process
management discipline. The continued development
of the BPM-D Application will lead to a more
efficient and far more effective approach to
establishing a value-driven BPM-Discipline in an
organization.
The permanent change of our business
environment also impacts the PoPM. Hence, this
process also changes continuously and with it the
requirements for the BPM-D Application. Therefore,
an agile ongoing development approach is required.
Ongoing research about the change of the PoPM
in our digital world needs to deliver the requirements
for this ongoing development. This makes the BPM-
Discipline the execution engine for strategy execution
and business digitalization, delivering fast results at
minimal risk.
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