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Stepping Out of the Recession

From ‘Performance Management in the Midmarket’ by the Aberdeen Group...

During the current economic downturn, Businesses are feeling pressure to access, review, analyze and act upon events and information in order to become more agile as they work to meet day-to-day operational and financial performance goals.

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Roaring Out of the Recession

From an article by RanjayGulati, Nitin Nohria and Franz Wohlgezogen...

The great recession of 2007

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Strategy Execution Process

From Robert L. Howie Jr., Managing Director of the Palladium Group…

He mentions a survey that compared two groups, one with and one without a formal strategy execution process in place.

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Performance Management & BPM

From ‘Performance Management in the Midmarket’ by the Aberdeen Group…

The Aberdeen Group analyzed the aggregated metrics of surveyed companies to determine whether their performance ranked as Best-in-Class, Industry Average or Laggard. In addition to having common performance levels, each class also shared characteristics in five key categories: [1] Process &

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Is BPM the Beginning of the End of ERP?

From Jan Baan, former head of BAAN Corporation …

In a recent article, Jack Vaughan quoted Jan Baan as saying, 'The successor of ERP is BPM....ERP is becoming the model of complexity. It has become too complicated'. Baan is the CEO of Cordys and former head of Baan Corporation, an ERP vendor.

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Cloud Computing in 2012

Let’s define Cloud Computing …

From Wikipedia - Cloud computing is a paradigm shift whereby details are abstracted from the users who no longer need knowledge of, expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure "in the cloud" that supports them.

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BPM Trends - Simplification

From Rashid N Khan, President of Leadership BPM …

He sees the future of BPM in the three S’s: Socialization, SaaS and Simplification.

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BPM Trends - SaaS

From Rashid N Khan, President of Leadership BPM …

He sees the future of BPM in the three S's: Socialization, SaaS and Simplification.

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BPM Trends - Socialization

From Rashid N Khan, President of Leadership BPM …

He sees the future of BPM in the three S’s: Socialization, SaaS and Simplification.
Social networking is becoming a very important way in which people interact with each other. It is having a profound impact on many aspects of the Internet-driven softw

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Key to Success - Effective Process Management

From the Operational Improvement Consulting Alliance…

Any company’s ability to operate effectively is a direct result of good processes and rules. But, today an additional element must be thrown into this mix. That is the ability to absorb and adjust to change quickly. 
Today, many companies

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