This community is focused on strategic issues, including how organizations establish goals, and how those goals are aligned to, and implemented by, specific business processes. Individuals interested in this community often focus on creating business or enterprise architectures that define basic business processes, and show relationships among business processes, goals and measures, and enabling software systems and networks.

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• Business Process Architectures
  
• Business Activity Monitoring
  
• Advisor: The Business Process Market
  
• The TeleManagement Forum’s eTOM Framework
  
• CRM Automation
  
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
  
• Motorola & Polaroid: The Case for Integrated Business Process Improvement
  
• E-Business and Business Process Change
  
• The XML Business Process Language Standards Wars
  
• Six Sigma, SCOR and Human Performance Improvement
  
• Model Driven Architecture in Practice
  
• The Chief Process Officer
  
• Does IT Matter?
  
• Hyping BPM
  
• Business Process Change Today
  
• The Association of Business Process Management Professionals
  
• Simulation and Business Process Change
  
• New Organizations for Second Generation BP
  
• Business Process Trends in 2004 - A Strategic Perspective
  
• Business Process Trends in 2004: A Practical Perspective
  
• BPM is NOT Just About Technology
  
• The Evolution of Six Sigma
  

• CMMI Distilled, 2nd Ed, by Dennis Ahern, Aaron Clouse, and Richard Turner
  
• Book Review: Serious Performance Consulting by Geary Rummler
  
• BPMJ Contents
  
• Book Review: Strategy Maps by Kaplan and Norton
  
• BPMJ Contents
  
• The Real-Time Enterprise by Peter Fingar and Joseph Bellini
  
• BPMJ Contents 10:5 2004
  
• BPMJ Contents 10-6 2004
  
• Book Review: Services Blueprint: Roadmap for Execution
  
• BPMJ Contents
  
• Book Review: Business Process Change Management
  
• Response to CMMI Review
  
• Book Review: Supply Chain Excellence
  
• CMMI: Guidelines for Process Integration and Product Improvement
  
• Book Review: Business Process Management: Profiting from Process
  
• Book Review: Strategic Planning for Success
  
• Book Review: Business Process Management: The Third Wave
  
• Book Review: Business Process Change -- Melville
  
• Book Review: Business Process Change - Francis
  
• BPMJ Contents Vol. 10 No.4
  
• BPMJ Contents 11-1 2005
  
• Creating Customer Focused Organizations by Brian Dickinson
  
• BPMJ Vol 11, No 3, 2005
  
• BPMJ Contents 11-4 2005
  
• Innovation Happens Elsewhere by Goldman and Gabriel
  
• BPMJ Vol 11 No 5
  
• BPMJ Contents 11-2 2005
  
• Learning to See by Mike Rother and John Shook
  
• Agile Systems: With Reusable Patterns of Business Knowledge: A Component-Based Approach by Amit Mitra and Amar Gupta.
  

• An Enterprise Architecture for a U.S. Intelligence Agency
  
• Raising the Bar...Continuous Improvement at Telcordia's Help Desk Center
  
• Case Study: Process Modeling Using Systems Dynamics: A Combined Case Study and Tutorial
  
• Case Study: Defining a Private Business Process in a Knowledge Base
  
• NOAA Maps the Future of Sensors that Gather Data
  

• MDA Journal: Software Industrialization and the New IT
  
• Postcard from Europe: An Open Method for BPM?
  
• MDA Journal: MDA, SOA, and Technology Convergence
  
• Managing BP: Bootstrapping
  
• The Corporate Nexus
  
• Postcard from Europe: Converging on Business Process
  
• Using Lean, Six Sigma, and SCOR To Improve Competitiveness
  
• Postcard from Europe: ERP and BP Modeling: Strange Bedfellows No More
  
• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Business Rules
  
• Postcard from Europe: Putting the Business First
  
• BPM's Third Wave
  
• Postcard from Europe: The Future of BPM
  
• Postcard from Europe: Breaking Down the Language Barrier
  
• Postcard from Europe: Europe Plays Too
  
• Postcard from Europe:The Real Motivation Behind BPM
  
• MDA Journal: An MDA Manifesto
  
• Managing BP: By Any Other Name
  
• The Third Wave: Outoperate Your Competition Using BPM
  
• Process Innovations: When the Inmates Run the Asylum
  
• Business Rules: Initial OMG Business Rules Proposals Evolve
  
• Microsoft's Next Frontier
  
• Postcard from Europe: The BPM Spotlight Shines on Europe
  
• The Third Wave: Green Forms and the Genesis of Reengineering
  
• Process Innovations: Modelling in Moderation
  
• Postcard from Europe: How Business Processes Create Competitive Advantage
  
• Managing BP: Homeland Security and BPM
  
• The Third Wave: The Naming of Cats
  
• Process Innovations: Attending to Processes
  
• Business Process Integration: One Piece at a Time
  
• Business Process Fusion is Inevitable
  
• BPTrends College Paper Contest Announcement
  
• Postcard from Europe: That Was The Year That Was!
  
• MDA Journal: Domain Specific Modeling and Model Driven Architecture
  
• Managing BP: It Depends
  
• The Third Wave: BPM 2004
  
• Workflow is Just a Pi Process
  
• Postcard from Europe: Will You Make the Change Before It Is Too Late?
  
• The Third Wave: BPM is Not About People, Culture, and Change. It's About Technology.
  
• Process Innovations: A Catholic Approach to Process Management
  
• Why Workflow is NOT Just a Pi Process
  
• Does Better Math Lead to Better Business Processes?
  
• MDA Journal: Six Sigma and MDA
  
• BPM in Europe: The BPM-Forum Netherlands
  
• Applying Six Sigma to Business Process Excellence
  
• eTOM and ITIL
  
• Managing BPM: He's Making a List, Checking It Twice
  
• Process Innovations: Process vs. Culture: Which Sweeping Generalization is Correct?
  
• The Talent Search in Business Performance Management
  
• Managing BPM: Gestures and Recipes
  
• Managing BP: The Case of the Reluctant Engineer
  
• The Business Process Maturity Model: A Practical Approach for Identifying Opportunities for Optimization
  
• MDA Journal: Language Driven Development and MDA
  
• MDA Journal: The DRM, the Semantic Web, and MDA
  
• Process Pragmatics: Towards a Process Organization
  
• Getting Started on the Path to Process-Driven Enterprise Optimization
  
• Getting Your Head Round Mozzarella
  
• Is Your Enterprise Architecture All It Can Be?
  
• Beyond Process Maturity to Process Competence
  
• MDA Journal: A Response to Steve Cook
  
• Managing BP: Great Unsolved Problems
  
• How BPM Impacts Consulting
  
• Managing BP: BPM and the Uses of Enchantment
  
• The Third Wave: Process Management Maturity Models
  
• Managing BPM: The Normal Modeler
  
• Business Rule Solutions: More Things You Need to Know
  
• Extreme Competition: Competition Gets Extreme
  
• Why Working With Reference Models Increases Process Innovation
  
• How to Demystify BPM?
  
• BPTrends 2005 Best Student Paper Contest
  
• BPTrends 2005 College Essay Contest
  
• Managing BPM: A Word From Your Sponsor
  
• Process Pragmatics: The Dawn of a New Era
  
• HPI: Wrapping Up the HAMS of Process Management-Design-Improvement
  
• Integrated Sales Management
  
• Manage Your Business Processes to Create a Competitive Advantage
  
• Down Under: Why Do We Need BPM Coaching When We Can Do It Ourselves?
  
• Extreme Competition: All Is Changed, Changed Utterly
  
• Process Innovation: P-TRIZ 3 P-TRIZ in the History of Business
  
• A Tale of Two Business Systems
  
• Process Portfolio Management
  
• BPTrends College BP Essay Contest and Application
  
• The Idea Behind Business Process Improvement
  
• Business Rules: Are System Requirements Business Rules?
  
• Enterprise Architecture in the Context of Organizational Strategy
  
• Standardization or Harmonization?
  
• Managing BPM: The Process Crawl
  
• Process Pragmatics: The Six Pillers of Process Progress
  
• BPM: A Global View: The Two Faces of Process Templates
  
• Business Rule Solutions: What Exactly is a Business Rule?
  
• The 2005 Business Rules Awareness Survey
  
• Learning to Become a Process-Managed Enterprise
  
• Managing BPM: To O or Not to O
  
• BPM in Europe: Business Processes, Business Rules, and the Devastating Virus Attack
  
• The Discipline of Business Modeling
  
• Service Process Improvement: Ten Lessons from Japanese Manufacturing
  
• BPM Capability and Credibility
  
• Managing BPM: The MOBO Process Path
  
• BPM in Europe: One Customer’s Experience
  
• Performance Improvement: Data That Drives Process Performance Design and Improvement
  
• A Marriage Made in Heaven: Combining Six Sigma with Process Management to Reach Unprecedented Levels of Business Performance
  
• Systems Thinking: The “Core” Core Competency for BPM
  
• Managing BP: If I had a Hammer
  
• Introducing the Chief Process and Information Officer (CPIO)
  
• Managing BPM: Supermodel
  
• Process Pragmatics: Improving Process Improvement
  
• BPM in Europe: From
  
• Business Process Management: A Rigorous Approach
  
• Business Rules: A User's Perspective of the OMG Business Rules Proposal
  
• Process Pragmatics: Searching for Synergy
  
• BPM: A Global View
  
• Managing BPM: Growing Up
  
• The Third Wave: The New Rules of BPM
  
• Challenges and Methods for the Implementation of Service Oriented Architectures: An Updated Enterprise Architecture
  

• Index of 2003 Authors and Publications
  

• January 2004: Enterprise Architectures
  
• July 2004 Business Performance Management: The Other BPM
  
• March 2004: Evaluating Your Company's BP Capability
  
• September 2004: The Baldrige National Quality Awards Program
  
• October 2004: Business Processes at a New Company
  
• December 2004: IBM's BPM Strategy, Products, and Architecture
  
• March 2003: Business Process Architecture and the Process-Centric Company
  
• January 2003: What is Business Process Change?
  
• February 2003: Supply Chains as Business Processes
  
• June 2003: Six Sigma Today
  
• July 2003: Business Rules: An Introduction
  
• May 2003: Second Generation Business Process Methodologies
  
• Sept 2003: Managing Business Processes
  
• October 2003: An Overview of Business Process Outsourcing
  
• December 2003: Analyzing and Improving Customer-Facing Processes
  
• November 2003: Business Process Outsourcing: Making It Work
  
• November 2004: The Human Side of an Enterprise Architecture
  

• Casewise's Corporate Modeler, Version 9.0
  
• Popkin Software's System Architect, Version 9.1
  
• Popkin Software System Architect, Version 9.0
  
• Product Review: Proforma's ProVision Suite, Version 4.2
  
• Proforma's ProVision 4.4.1
  

• Leveraging Business Process Management and Six Sigma in Process Improvement Initiatives
  
• ITIL
  
• Application of a Holistic Model for Determining BPM Maturity
  
• BPM and Standardization
  
• A Conceptual Framework for Business Performance
  
• TMF White Paper on NGOSS and MDA
  
• BPMN and Business Process Management
  
• Process Modeling Notations and Workflow Patterns
  
• Enterprise Architecture Modernization Using the Adaptive Enterprise Framework
  
• Business Activity Monitoring and Simulation
  
• The Split Personality of BPM
  
• BPM and MDA: The Rise of Model-Driven Enterprise Systems
  
• Technical Brief: Conducting a Business Process Audit
  
• Aligning Enterprise Architecture and IT Investments with Corporate Goals
  
• Technical Brief: An Air Travel Security Planning Map
  
• An Introduction to the Supply Chain Council's SCOR Methodology
  
• Developing an Enterprise Architecture
  
• Technical Brief: Business Process Management: Past, Present, Future
  
• A Study of Strategic Change, Process Alignment, and Notation: FNGC Tap Process - Part 1
  
• A Study of Strategic Change, Process Alignment, and Notation: FNGC Tap Process Part 2
  
• The Zachman Framework and the OMG's Model Driven Architecture
  
• Business Process Ontologies: Frequently Asked Questions
  
• The TeleManagement Forum's NGOSS Framework
  
• Business Process Ontologies: Speeding up BP Implementation
  
• Performance Modeling & Human Asset Enabler Analysis
  
• SCOR 6.0
  
• Ontology-Based Business Process Management: The Vision Statement
  
• Unisys Business Blueprints
  
• Technical Brief: Value Chains and Business Processes
  
• Sarbanes-Oxley Express
  
• Building High Performance Enterprises in the Federal Government: A Proposal for Transforming Government Enterprise Performance Management
  
• Implementing the Semantic Business Development Control Center
  
• The Evolution of Business Process Management as a Professional Discipline
  
• Modeling Human Interactions: Part II
  
• How Boeing A&T Manages Business Process
  
• Human Capital Management Planning
  
• Stakeholder Analysis: The Key to Balanced Performance Measures
  
• The Move to Web Service Ecosystems
  
• Human Performance Technology
  

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• Sourcing Interests Group (SIG)
  
• Lean Enterprise Institute
  
• Object Management Group (OMG)
  
• Value Chain Group
  
• BPM-Forum (Europe)
  
• TeleManagement Forum
  
• BPM Standards Group
  
• Supply Chain Council (SCC)
  
• Baldrige National Quality Awards Program
  
• Association of Business Process Management Professionals
  

• Future Tech Systems
  
• Advanced Integrated Technologies Group (AIT Group)
  
• HP Business Process Management
  
• BearingPoint
  
• Celerant Consulting
  
• Breakthrough Management Group
  
• Balanced Scorecard Collective
  
• BeggsHeidt
  
• Bayside Consulting
  
• CAP Gemini Ernest & Young
  
• Computer Sciences Corp (CSC)
  
• EDS
  
• IBM
  
• IDS Scheer
  
• SAP
  
• PCOR (Process Core Group)
  
• International Performance Group, Ltd
  
• Performance Design Lab
  
• IQPC
  
• Codagen Technology
  
• Embarcadero Technologies
  
• Firestar Software (Formerly ONTOS)
  
• Headway Software
  
• Kabira Technologies
  
• Kennedy Carter Ltd
  
• Metanology
  
• Secant Technologies
  
• Softeam
  
• Zachman Institute for Framework Advancement
  
• QPR
  
• AttainingEdge
  

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• Strategy & Architecture