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Written by Vaseem Khan   
Thursday, 06 August 2009 17:45
The buzzword of Business Process Management (BPM) is catching up around the world with diverse business segments. Multiple companies are adopting the BPM culture and optimizing their business processes. BPM as addressed in the previous article “BPM and its growth potential” is on its growth phase. So the question is when are you thinking of joining this bandwagon of BPM. Are you BPM’d yet? Or is BPM not your cup of tea, let’s find out. 
 
Let us consider an organization where everyday tasks are handled by humans and are repeated almost every day with the same set of people. Do we see any innovation in our lives if we are running or handling a business enterprise? The answer is no. Since when do we care for innovation if we are not of the risk taking type? Is innovation in today’s business process important? I will leave it you to figure that out. 
 
If you and I would not care about the previous questions then one thing is for sure, we just don’t care about our business growth. Have you ever imagined following same business processes, having similar set of people working without any innovation in their working methodologies and expecting phenomenal financial growth. It sounds like a safe bet but only if the work environment, competition and customers’ expectations are stable. Gone are those days where you would expect of stability in the market conditions, the days of innovation and optimizing your business process is here. 
 
BPM is your safe bet to bring back the stability in your working environment. If you are still not certain of BPM providing you stability then consider the benefits of automating your daily operations: 
  • Keep track of tasks and assign them to right people and monitoring their performances
  • Identify the bottlenecks in your business process and reduce the down time of your business operations
  • Integrate your existing business applications with BPM based tools to reduce the human intervention of tracking various business optimization applications
  • Keep up with changing market conditions by tweaking your existing business processes
  • Identify the customer’s needs and integrate them into your business processes
Now, imagine doing all the above things without using BPM. Is it still possible? Yes, it is possible if you are ready to sacrifice your profits by employing extra man power, elongate time to market your products or services and take risk by not considering market volatility.  
 
The choice of getting BPM’d or not should be clear to you now. Just be wise and invest in a BPM solution so as to reap the benefits of BPM and experience the much needed change in your business operations.  

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