Who Does Your Organization Train to Help With Process Change? (You can choose more than one.)
May 4, 2015 @ 12:00 pm
People use these terms in different ways. Tell us which definition best describes the activity the process people in your organization are doing. Please only choose one.
April 7, 2015 @ 3:00 pm
Some organizations are led by senior executives that believe in business processes. In other cases middle managers need to fight to get to improve processes. What’s your organization like?
March 2, 2015 @ 3:00 pm
Some business process methodologies (like Six Sigma) are incremental, or bottom-up. Others (like Business Process Reengineering) are top-down. Which type does your company use?
February 2, 2015 @ 3:00 pm
Please tell us how you research process questions, techniques, trends, etc. Specifically, what social media do you use in your process work? (You can choose more than one.)
January 5, 2015 @ 12:00 pm
- We don't train anyone to support process change. (17%, 5 Votes)
- We leave process change to the IT department. (7%, 2 Votes)
- We train all employees to support incremental process improvement. (3%, 1 Votes)
- We train our business analysts to support process change. (23%, 7 Votes)
- We train our regular managers to drive process change. (20%, 6 Votes)
- We train selected individuals to be business process change specialists. (30%, 9 Votes)
Total Voters: 20
People use these terms in different ways. Tell us which definition best describes the activity the process people in your organization are doing. Please only choose one.
- Process Improvement involves incremental changes in a process, often undertaken by the employees who execute the process. Process people support process improvement efforts in our organization. (72%, 21 Votes)
- Process Redesign involves making major changes in an existing process. Process people in our organization mainly focus on process redesign. (21%, 6 Votes)
- Transformation involves sweeping change where existing processes are set aside and new processes are created to achieve new goals. Process people in our organization mainly focus on transformation. (7%, 2 Votes)
Total Voters: 29
Some organizations are led by senior executives that believe in business processes. In other cases middle managers need to fight to get to improve processes. What’s your organization like?
- Hardly anyone in our organization is interested in business process work. (18%, 5 Votes)
- Our IT people believe in processes, in conjunction with automation initiatives, but that’s about the extent of process in our organization. (18%, 5 Votes)
- Some middle managers in our organization believe in business processes and work hard to sell process ideas to peers and executives. (39%, 11 Votes)
- Our CEO doesn’t really care about processes, and has to be sold on any business process initiatives. (11%, 3 Votes)
- Our CEO and executive team believe in processes and encourage business process initiatives of all kinds. (14%, 4 Votes)
Total Voters: 28
Some business process methodologies (like Six Sigma) are incremental, or bottom-up. Others (like Business Process Reengineering) are top-down. Which type does your company use?
- We have and use both top-down and incremental BP methodologies (45%, 14 Votes)
- We use a top-down methodology (13%, 4 Votes)
- We use an incremental methodology (6%, 2 Votes)
- We don’t use a BP methodology at our organization (36%, 11 Votes)
Total Voters: 31
Please tell us how you research process questions, techniques, trends, etc. Specifically, what social media do you use in your process work? (You can choose more than one.)
- Face-to-face. I don't depend too much on social media. I rely on face-to-face discussions to keep track of important developments in the field and to get answers to specific questions. (6%, 10 Votes)
- Discussion groups - 2. I post questions to discussion groups to gather information from others about what's worked. (3%, 6 Votes)
- Discussion groups. I read or participate in discussion groups on LinkedIn and similar services and these discussions provide insights. (15%, 27 Votes)
- Tweets. I subscribe to the tweets of a number of people and regularly check tweets to get information or opinion on key topics. (2%, 3 Votes)
- Email. I get emails from colleagues and they keep me abreast of key developments. (6%, 10 Votes)
- Email or tweets re. websites and blogs. I get emails or tweets that describe new postings on blogs or websites. If the topic sounds interesting, I check it out. (8%, 15 Votes)
- Blogs. I keep up by visiting specific blogs to read about what selected people are saying. (13%, 24 Votes)
- Websites. I keep up by visiting specific websites, like BPTrends, on a regular basis. (24%, 43 Votes)
- Web searches. When I want to find out about new topics or technologies, I do a search on the web. (23%, 42 Votes)
Total Voters: 48
