From an AIIM Industry Watch report…

BPM has an excellent track record of investment return largely achieved by changing and re-shaping business processes for higher performance.

Here are some of their key findings:

From Terry Schurter - IPAPI.org…

Terry wrote ‘A Brief History of BPM’ – you can read his entire blog at www.ipapi.org .

I want to share his ‘lessons learned’.

From a CIO.com article…

Building a case for BPM

First, you need to analyze the opportunities within your particular organization to determine if BPM will help or just add to the confusion and legacy burden. Remember, BPM is an approach to solving these problems and will likely outlive a particular vendor's platform in your organization.

From a CIO.com article…

What is involved in implementing BPM?

Similar to other software implementations, BPM requires both business and technical resources and activities. Effective BPM is based on an ongoing iterative design/develop/deliver process improvement lifecycle.

Found in a Ziff Davis BPM Kit…

If your organization has any of the following issues, BPM software provides the solution.

More and more organizational leaders are realizing that business process management [BPM] creates a significant competitive advantage. According to Gartner, BPM is one of the fasted growing segments in software, and is predicted to remain so during the next 5 years. 

From the Institute for Process Innovation…

As a result of their research, they have identified critical success factors and implementation approaches for BPM. They say that the most important influences in BPM from a management perspective are total quality management [TQM] and business process re-engineering.

From a Ziff Davis 'BPM Kit'...

Decreased Costs

From a 2009 BPM Market Report by Transformation and Innovation...

Respondents were asked to indicate what had been their firms 'single greatest' benefit from using BPM to date:

28% said 'Automation of Standard Procedures and Processes'

I am a member of BP Group. They are currently asking their membership for a definition of BPM [Business Process Management]. A couple of definitions follow…