Re-Engineering Business Process Management (BPM) by Integrating Full-Spectrum Business Process Management Software

The cost of doing business is going up. The postal service is poised to significantly raise rates, which may be the death of some industries while crippling others. The task of growing sales and profits is becoming increasingly more difficult. Accounts receivable days outstanding and cash flows are serious issues. Not acknowledging these issues can be very costly.

Smart executives are exhausting all efforts to re-engineer their business process management (BPM) in order to control their costs and maximize employee productivity.  Cornerstone Communications can help businesses with a minimal investment, no interruption in business, and no risk. 
 
By streamlining the management of business processes (BPM) and critical documents, Cornerstone clients have experienced the following:

• A/R days outstanding reduced by days, even weeks
  
• Increased sales and market share
  
• Expedited shipments
  
• Enhanced customer service
  
• Lowered operational costs  
  
• Reduced payroll   

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Business Process Management (BPM) Inefficiency
How are you adjusting to the recent changes in today's business environment?  To keep up, most companies have only two options:  generate more revenue or become more efficient at what they do.  Generating more revenue is often beyond your direct control as it heavily relies on the market conditions.   However, improvements in your business processes lie clearly within your control and will produce instant as well as long-term results.
 
“Companies are fed up with managing complicated, messy things outside their core function,” says Christine Ferrusi Ross, an analyst with Forrester Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Inefficient business processes are holding companies back from building on their core competencies. 
 
Re-engineering those tedious business functions enables companies to focus on their core competencies in a more cost effective and simple way.  John Brandt, President of The Chief Executive Group, expresses that “CEOs are always looking for ways to create a competitive advantage.” Improving the efficiency of their legacy business processes will improve customer service, increase speed to market, and cut working capital.

Business processes are the lifeblood of strong enterprises.  The emphasis on business process management software, technologies and skills is more important now than ever before.  There has been a current shift to a richer process mentality, forcing people to think more about business processes more on both the supply and demand side.

• A demand driver example is when companies push their business processes outside traditional boundaries and those seeking a competitive advantage.  These companies look beyond the way that things have always been done and realize there is more than one way to do things.
  
• A supply side example is the implementation of process-rich tools.  Organizations need to include tools in their business processes that add significant value to their current applications and investments.   

Business process management (BPM) incorporates humans and the application systems that humans use.   The challenge many companies face is managing both humans and applications at the same time.  A blend of human creativity and application is crucial in the growth and influence of business process management (BPM).
 
Research shows that processes range from very structured to very unstructured.  In general, structured processes, rather than unstructured processes, have been easier to support through classic process management approaches.  The polar extremes are either too human-focused (product branding, “gurus”) or too hardwired (ATM).  Business process management (BPM) needs to be in the middle of the spectrum. 

Business will continue to see process management emerge in the most logical places, but requires IT, software and business unit alignment.  This will require a new organizational approach to processes. 

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