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2009 BPM & Workflow Handbook
Methods, Concepts, Case Studies and Standards in Business Process Management and Workflow

Spotlight on BPM in Government
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword
Jon Pyke, Chair WfMC, United Kingdom * read this chapter immediately after purchase

SECTION 1?SPOTLIGHT ON BPM IN GOVERNMENT

An Open Letter to President Obama: It’s Time to Fix Broken Government
Clay Richardson, Senior Analyst, Business Process Management, Forrester Research, United States  * read this chapter immediately after purchase

Measuring Readiness for BPM: Insights from Corporate Entrepreneurship and Organizational Change Research
Daniel T. Holt, Air Force Institute of Technology, USA

Streamlining Research and Development Case Files at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
Charles Joesten, PMP, ICOR Partners LLC, USA

How Converging Methodologies and Technologies Effect Adoption and Success of BPM
Linus K. Chow, Oracle Corporation, USA * read this chapter immediately after purchase

Optimizing the Institution for Corporate Development in Uruguay
Lucía Wainer, Corporación Nacional para el Desarrollo; Juan J. Moreno, INTEGRADOC / Universidad Católica and Martín Dauber INTEGRADOC, Montevideo, Uruguay

Delivering Case Management with BPM in the Public Sector: Combining Knowledge with Process
Michael White, Singularity, UK

BPM in eGovernment: a Genuine Virtual Counter
Cédric Tumelaire, City of Waterloo, Belgium, Laurent Bagnoud, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland and Rémy Tzaud, Xpert.Ivy, Switzerland

Transforming Health Care through Enterprise Architecture and BPM Christine Robinson, CSC, United States * read this chapter immediately after purchase

Delivering Strategy through Process: SAPO Case Study
Marietjie Lancaster, South African Post Office, Dr. Michélle Booysen, Pétanque Business Specialists, South Africa

Managing Change with Re-Usable Assets for Government Agencies
Setrag Khoshafian, Pegasystems Inc., USA

Streamlining the Congress of the Republic of Peru e-Government
Rocio Angelica Sanchez, Congress of the Republic of Peru, and Amy Wyron, Colosa, Inc., Peru

Processes Systematization of the High Court of Justice (Mexico)
Juan Chacón, Vanina Marcote; PECTRA Technology, USA.

SECTION 2?THE BUSINESS VALUE OF WORKFLOW AND BPM

Application Provisioning in the Cloud
Jon Pyke, Cordys, Netherlands

Business Transformation Blueprint—BPM as Key Enabler
Vinaykumar S. Mummigatti, IBM Global Business Services and Tom Bobrowski, Capgemini, USA * read this chapter immediately after purchase

Financial Crisis Front Line: SNS Bank
Eric D. Schabell and Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, SNS Bank and Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

Leveraging Best Practices through a Human Process Management System
Jacob P. Ukelson, D.Sc. CTO ActionBase, USA

People Relationship Management: Completing the BPM Value Proposition
Roy Altman, Peopleserv, Inc., USA

SECTION 3?BPM IN STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY

Two Strategies for Handling Models: Preserving vs. Transforming
Keith D Swenson, Fujitsu America, Inc., USA

A Design Methodology for BPMN
Michele Chinosi and Alberto Trombetta, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy

The Auto Optimizer
Robert M. Shapiro and Hartmann Genrich, Global 360, United States

Open Source Workflow Management Systems: A Concise Survey
Ricardo Garcês, Tony de Jesus, Jorge Cardoso* and Pedro Valente, University of Madeira, Portugal  *SAP Research, Germany,  *University of Coimbra, Portugal

Extending XPDL with the Temporal Perspective
Denis Gagné, Trisotech, and André Trudel, Acadia University, Canada

BPM SAAS as the Foundation of a Cloud-based Post-IT Enterprise
Wolf Rivkin, B-Wave Software LLC.

SECTION 4—DIRECTORIES AND APPENDICES

Authors' appendix
WfMC Structure and Membership Information
Membership Directory
Index
Additional Online Resources in BPM and Workflow 


This is a book for business people who just want to understand the how and why of process automation and integration in simple non-jargon terms. It is also for the technical person looking for current insights into where BPM standards are heading, how others are managing implementations and more.

Throughout the book international industry experts and thought leaders present significant new ideas and concepts to help you plan a successful future for your organization.

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