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In order to utilize the contemporary advanced technology, business processes need sound software support. With respect to this, one frequent cause of software project failure is the mismatch between the business requirements and the actual functionality of the delivered software application. To solve this problem, it is necessary to build software stemming out from a business process model. Aiming at aligning business process modeling and software design in a component-based way, the proposed ...

By Jeffrey Schwartz - 07/02/2009 Organizations embarking on business process management need to bring in IT architects earlier in the process, according to a report released last week. Only 52 percent of organizations classified as leaders have enterprise architecture teams leading their BPM efforts, a Web survey of 135 enterprises, showed. Of those described as followers, only 31 percent had enterprise architects leading the efforts. Read more.....

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Experts agree that business process management (BPM) is a good practice, but say it can be tough to make happen if the people within your organization are more data-focused than process-focused. Read more......

This week we want to focus on one single aspect of Business Process Management - what skills are required of Project Managers responsible for managing a Business Process Redesign Project. Specifically, we want to focus on what's required to assure that a Business Process Redesign project progresses smoothly and achieves its objectives. First of all, we need to distinguish between improvement projects and redesign projects. Improvement projects are undertaken to make an existing process ...

BPM Methodologies and Process Maturity A business process methodology is a formal description of a procedure that a team can follow to redesign or improve a business process. Some prefer to describe such a procedure as a "framework" to suggest that it provides an overall description of how to proceed, but avoids being too prescriptive. Since we tend to use the term "framework" to refer to a template ...

Supply chains are going global, yet most firms' systems are designed solely for domestic orders. It's been a difficult time for Larry Merritt, director of global logistics at Lexington Home Brands, in Lexington, N.C. In less than three years, the $167 million home furnishings company has completely changed its business model. "We've gone from being a manufacturer to being an importer," Merritt says. The reason? Globalization. Read more here.

The Paper opens by mapping the changes in the global auto industry in the 1990's showing how the rapid growth in sales and production between 1990 and 1997 came largely from the emerging markets rather than the triad regions (North America, the European Union and Japan). However, for some of these markets the downturn that followed was substantial and prolonged. More

Because of its resource and labour intensity, the wood furniture sector presents an opportunity for developing countries and their firms to participate effectively in the global economy. This paper begins with a brief description of the global wood furniture industry and highlights the importance of exports wood furniture products for developing countries and emergin and transitional economies. The paper then maps the wood furniture value chain ...More

The paper uses the global value chain framework to explain the transformations in production, trade and corporate strategies that altered the apparel industry over the past decades and changed the conditions for innovation and learning in the industry. The apparel industy is identified as a buyer-driven value chain...More

Rapid technological advancements make fragmenting of activies in all stages of a production value chain increasingly possible. Some segmented activies can be performed in differenct locations worldwide and reintegrated again into global value chains and global producxtion networks. The paper examines how the spreading of these production systems can create opportunities ... More

Hello ________, Thank you for your interest in the Value Chain Group. In this issue, the Value Chain Group highlights the two environments that enable effective collaboration to continually evolve the value chain framework for the next generation of Business Process Management. Contact Us We hope you find this newsletter informative and welcome your comments. The Value Chain Operations Reference (VCOR) ...

In his first interview leading up to the publication of his new book on globalization and the new-world economy, Thomas Friedman warns that offshoring is just the first of a series of changes U.S. companies are going to have to absorb. Eliminating trade barriers, language barriers and even (with the Internet) distance, is more than just a convenience; it fundamentally changes the way the world works.

Not for Profit Promotes a unified business process framework and reference models to facilitate effective value chain communication Extended Enterprise Model Understanding of key processes and assets without owning them - across the value chain Fully connected inputs and outputs Logical framework that demands connectivity between outputs, activities and inputs Database-managed as a framework Maintained in a SQL environment, easily updated, and available in XML format for transfer ...