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Enterprise Process Mapping: Integrating Systems For Compliance And Business Excellence 3 reviews
Charles G. Cobb
ASQ Quality Press, 2004
Just read Enterprise Process Mapping by Charles Cobb
+ A High Level Intro Book on Process Mapping
This is an excellent book for those readers wishing to use process mapping to understand and improve business processes. The book is well organized and extremely informative. While it concentrates on the "how to" of process mapping it does so in the context of real business applications and is a ...
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Business Process Change, Second Edition: A Guide for Business Managers and BPM and Six Sigma Professionals 8 reviews
Paul Harmon
Morgan Kaufmann, 2007
Very good discussion of business process - applicable to a broad arena of work
+ A masterpiece of technical writing and an essential book for your Business Analysis library
+ The best Business Process book available!
+ Business Process Change
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Process Modeling with ARIS: A Practical Introduction
Heinrich Seidlmeier
GWV-Vieweg, 2004
The reader learns the basics of ARIS management and can start simple projects that include basic process knowledge, ARIS operation and system administration, and models and modeling as well as model evaluations. Exercises with solutions and an extensive case study offer plenty of practice possibilities. The author shows how process models are realized using document and workflow management ...
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Total Improvement Management: The Next Generation in Performance Improvement2 reviews
H. James Harrington, James S. Harrington
McGraw-Hill, 1994
Making Sense out of Improvement Initiatives
+ One of the best overall business improvement book ever
Harrington does an excellent job of presenting a methodology to understand how all of those improvement 'flavors-of-the-month' can actually work TOGETHER to obtain that rosetta stone business strives for - synergy - in seeking improvement. The book is very well written, easy to understand, and ...
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Workflow Modeling: Tools for Process Improvement and Application Development 13 reviews
Alec Sharp, Patrick McDermott
Artech House Publishers, 2001
Excellent Business Process Modeling Book
+ Fantastic for newcomers and seasoned experts
+ Finally a How-To!
+ Very good for newbies in process improvement field
+ Good Book for a Foundation
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Business Process Management: A Rigorous Approach2 reviews
Martyn A. Ould
Meghan-Kiffer Press, 2005
Role Activiuty Diagrams ... trump BPMN
+ Another 'Must Have' for the BPM Practioner
Martyn Ould is the grandfather of the Role Activity Diagram (well not quite th inventor, certainly the guy who has pushed it furthest).
Having taught this notation and BPMN for the last few years (and now written the authoritative guide on BPMN "BPMN Modeling an Reference Guide") I just wish ...
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: Business Process Management and the Balanced Scorecard : Focusing Processes on Strategic Drivers6 reviews
Ralph F. Smith
Wiley, 2006
Specifics and practicalities
+ If you want to be a Lean Six Sigma Rock Star like me you need this book
+ Process Improvement for the Process Manager
I had the opportunity to read Ralph's book while he was delivering onsite Balanced Scorecard facilitation for my current employer. With more than a decade of experience in process improvement, and having read several books on linking process to strategy, I can say that Ralph has done a great job ...
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Process Aware Information Systems: Bridging People and Software Through Process Technology
Marlon Dumas, Wil M. van der Aalst, ...
Wiley-Interscience, 2005
A unifying foundation to design and implement process-aware information systems This publication takes on the formidable task of establishing a unifying foundation and set of common underlying principles to effectively model, design, and implement process-aware information systems. Authored by leading authorities and pioneers in the field, Process-Aware Information Systems helps readers ...
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Business Process Maturity: Theory and Application
Kevin McCormack
BookSurge Publishing, 2007
A compilation of articles and cases studies covering 15 years of research and application of the business process orientation and maturity theory.
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The Six Sigma Way: How GE, Motorola, and Other Top Companies are Honing Their Performance28 reviews
Peter S. Pande et al, Robert P. Neuman, ...
McGraw-Hill, 2000
Senior Leadership Team meeting goer
+ Excellent Book
+ A Six Sigma Primer
look how great i am.....i am a member of the senior leadership team which means i just go to meetings all day and really dont do any work....i just blowhard at work all day like i am blowing hard reviewing this book
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IT Doesn't Matter-Business Processes Do: A Critical Analysis of Nicholas Carr's I.T. Article in the Harvard ...15 reviews
Howard Smith, Peter Fingar, ...
Meghan-Kiffer Press, 2003
good information for business strategists
+ BPM for Senior Managers
+ Replace IT with Architecture
+ Plan Ahead
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Simulation Modeling Methods: To Reduce Risks and Increase Performance (CD-ROM included) 2 reviews
H. James Harrington, Kerim Tumay
McGraw-Hill, 2000
SimProcess LIVE! on this book
I used to use ModSim by CACI on NeXT machine. Now CACI have the easier and PC-compatible, called SimProcess. This book is not only about Simulation sytem, but the great SimProcess user manual. This book is actually a geneal book of Simulation, not a Risk analysis or elses. CD-ROM, come with this ...
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The Six Sigma Handbook: The Complete Guide for Greenbelts, Blackbelts, and Managers at All Levels, Revised ...29 reviews
Thomas Pyzdek
McGraw-Hill, 2003
"Six Sigma: The Complete Guide..." Well worth the money!
+ It's The Definitive Textbook On The Topic
+ Familiarity
+ One of the Best Books on Six Sigma
+ Six Sigma Handbook
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Business Process Improvement: The Breakthrough Strategy for Total Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness6 reviews
H. James Harrington
McGraw-Hill, 1991
Still Relevant and Valuable
+ Streamline Process
+ The quality: the best competitive tool!
+ Excellent Starting Point
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Workflow Management: Models, Methods, and Systems (Cooperative Information Systems)3 reviews
Wil van der Aalst, Kees van Hee
The MIT Press, 2004
Workflow design with a twist
+ Excellent Book
+ Workflows, explained simply and clearly!
This book has significantly changed my thinking about and approach to workflow management. Prior to reading it I based workflow systems on process chains based on frameworks such as entry-task-validation-exit (ETVX) or plan-do-check-act (PDCA). While process chains are a valid approach, the only ...
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The Basics of Process Mapping 14 reviews
Robert Damelio
Productivity Press, 1996
Great Book on Process Mapping for the Price
+ Excellent Primer
+ Concise introduction to process mapping
+ Simple, efficient, effective, right on target!
+ work processes
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Organizations: Behavior, Structure, Processes 5 reviews
James L Gibson
McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2005
Great Purchase!!!
+ Book delivery - Organization Behavior
+ Managing organizations?
This book was new and I definitely feel that I got my money's worth. I received it in a timely fashion.
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Business Process Change: A Manager's Guide to Improving, Redesigning, and Automating Processes (The Morgan ...16 reviews
Paul Harmon
Morgan Kaufmann, 2002
Business Process Change
+ Good seller.
+ Very good book from Paul Harmon
This book was recommended by several of my lean consulting friends, who specialize in agile project management, as an excellent source for documenting and analyzing process workflows in complex environments. I agree, this book is a must read for people tasked with redesigning informational ...
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Lean Transformation: How to Change Your Business into a Lean Enterprise7 reviews
Bruce A. Henderson, Jorge L. Larco
Oaklea Publishing, 1999
After 2 years, I refer to this most often
+ Setting the Scene for Lean
+ Excellent Book
+ Good Overview of the Lean Journey
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Business Process Management: Profiting From Process (Sams White Book)4 reviews
Roger Burlton
Sams, 2001
Best in class book with a full view of the subject
+ Getting the Business Value from BPM
+ A Business Process Management toolkit must have.
Among the stack of business process and process design books I've read this one stands out as the best. The reason for this bold statement is this is the only one that carefully examines business processes from the four dimensions of (1)Business, (2) Process, (3) Knowledge and (4)Business Rules. ...
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