Technologies
Identify and implement technologies for documenting, organizing, and evaluating process improvements.
Improvement Planning
Practices-Outcomes-Metrics (POM)
Representative POMs are described for Technologies at each level of maturity.
- 1Initial
- Practice
- Encourage individuals with a pioneering mind-set to experiment with process representation using various low-cost technologies.
- Outcome
- The potential value of process representation is recognized. Awareness of the limitations of non-BPM technology grows.
- Metric
- No metrics.
- 2Basic
- Practice
- Apply workflow technologies to some high-volume processes within discrete projects.
- Outcome
- Competency in process automation technologies develops.
- Metrics
- Number of processes in which process automation technologies are used.
- Number of different process automation technologies in use.
- Practice
- Evaluate the use of process documentation, modelling or analysis tools, in a some projects or business units.
- Outcomes
- A vision emerges of a portfolio of BPM technologies that address key needs.
- Awareness of the need for a coordinated approach to BPM technologies emerges.
- Metric
- Number of different BPM technologies in use.
- 3Intermediate
- Practice
- Have a BPM technology specialist take responsibility to ensure BPM technologies meet business needs and oversees the performance of the required technical support.
- Outcome
- Approved BPM technologies meet business needs.
- Metric
- Satisfaction levels of developers and users with approved BPM technologies.
- Practice
- Adopt and deploy a small number of approved BPM technologies across the organization.
- Outcome
- Organizational skills coalesce around approved BPM technologies.
- Metric
- Percentage of business units and departments using approved BPM technologies.
- 4Advanced
- Practice
- Support and promote a functionally rich set of BPM technologies to meet business needs.
- Outcome
- BPM technologies are embraced by IT personnel as a powerful toolset for interactions between IT and the business, and terms associated with these technologies are integrated into the broader IT lexicon.
- Metric
- Satisfaction of all relevant stakeholder groups with BPM technologies.
- Practice
- Assign responsibility to a designated person or group for BPM technologies, to address business needs, oversee application performance, ensure compliance with the enterprise architecture, and to communicate with vendors.
- Outcome
- BPM technologies are managed as a portfolio of critical functionalities.
- Metric
- Profile statistics of performance parameters for each BPM technology.
- Practice
- Have a technical support group supports BPM technologies and provides first-tier problem resolution and user guidance.
- Outcome
- Technical support is efficient and responsive.
- Metric
- Number of issues that require escalation to tier 2 technical support.
- 5Optimized
- Practice
- Assign internal technology experts as active participants in the product development planning process of BPM software vendors.
- Outcome
- BPM technologies support a high percentage of activities across the organization.
- Metric
- List of BPM initiatives/projects that add value.
- Practice
- Conduct continual research is to identify new technological options, to improve process performance.
- Outcome
- The organization's BPM technology capability is constantly kept at a “leading edge” state.
- Metric
- List of public citations for the organization's use of BPM technologies.