Business Process Management Is a Team Sport: Play It to Win!

by Andrew Spanyi

Book Overview

This book is best suited to those business leaders who have a burning desire to win. It's a book with a compelling message about the resurgence of business process thinking for competitive advantage.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0929652029
• ISBN13: 9780929652023
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Anclote Press
• Length: 173 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Understanding The Management Perspective

In this book, Andrew, dares to tread where other books on BPM fear to tread. Namely that the big benefits can only be delivered if the buy-in for BPM comes from the Executive level. In Andrew's words "For BPM to truly succeed everyone must get it - from the Boardroom to the LunchRoom." Given that this is the basic story of the book - and the book very much tells a story - it would be easy for people to assume that the book is solely aimed at executives. This is certainly not the case and anyone who is thinking about or has been involved in a BPM project will get a great deal out of this book. It is one of the easiest reads I have come across on the subject and Andrew does a fantastic job of beinging together so much material in such a concise and readable manner. This is one of the few books that I have read and reviewed that I recomend extremely highly to people at all levels within an organisation and to students also.

Business Process Management

This is a book that explains Business Process Management in business terms. The book can be introduced to someone with little or no background of BPM concepts. I have been struggling on how to package BPM to help our organization grow. Someone has finally put together a nicely written, short book that can be completed in a few hours on the first read. I would suggest reading this book two or three times and Business Process Management the Third Wave before presenting this to your organization/company. The move from functionally based stovepipe organizations, departments, applications and systems is in the very near future. I would consider this book to be the cliff notes or readers digest version of Business Process Management the Third Wave written by Howard Smith and Peter Fingar (A MUST FOR ANYONE SERIOUS ABOUT BPM).

A Book You can Use!

We know that to be successful, our organizations have to become "customer driven" and that means improving our business processes across the enterprise. But business processes are boring, and so are most business books. This one is an exception.Mr. Spanyi makes a strong case that if people collaborate better, the organization can reach its goals - despite the tough economy.Want to attain that "shared thinking" so necessary in cross-functional teams? This book provides real advice that any business person can use. Best of all, its clear and concise. So, if you are faced with improving the performance of your organization, I highly recommend this book.

Business Process Management

The recent history of business publications has seen a plethora of ideas for addressing the dual challenges of accelerating change of pace and complexity of operation. In his book, Spanyi clearly presents his ideas on how to successfully create and implement Business Process Management (BPM) on an enterprise-wide basis for current and future business success.He restates and drives home the eternal truth of developing a strategic plan and using business process thinking to get company wide buy-in. He details and explains mistakes of the past and presents his BPM approach as a blueprint for future success. His ideas for implementing strategic cross-functional process design and elimination of traditional barriers such as turf wars are as intellectually stimulating as they are practical and represent a potential formula for success.