"To improve is to change, to be perfect is to change often" - Winston Churchill

Change is the only constant

“We cannot solve the problems we have at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them” - Albert Einstein

In a world that is flat, “Sense and Respond” is the new paradigm. Companies implement software solutions to lower costs, improve worker productivity and enhance visibility into the state of the business. However, In the face of increasing global competition and rapid changes in technology, legislation and knowledge, organizations need to become agile enough to respond quickly. The necessity to become more efficient, more responsive, more attentive, more cost conscious, and to work faster than in the past has become more urgent as a result of globalization where competitors can, and do, appear from anywhere.  

 Adaptive, Dynamic, Flexible and Agile are the new mantra.

      
Understanding the Process challenges

“Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all” - Peter Drucker 

An Organization is a complex web of processes. For businesses to become adaptive, dynamic, flexible and agile, the business has to be managed from a process perspective. A business is driven not by a single process but perhaps hundreds of processes. Some processes are mission-critical to the overall value chain whereas other processes operate in a supporting role. These processes should be documented, analyzed and optimized, their mutual dependencies understood, along with their strategic importance and their alignment with strategic goals and objectives. Once the processes have been discovered, documented and analyzed, they can be improved - executed at lower cost with higher quality, performance, visibility or adaptability.

EA + BPM

“Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge” - Winston Churchill 

To ensure success, businesses need to tie their processes to the broader business goals and measurement, people, systems and technology that perform these processes.

EA or Enterprise Architecture studies the enterprise from many different perspectives and thru various models provide greater visibility into the linkage between actions and consequence. EA frameworks can harness technology as "agents of change".

BPA or Business Process Analysis provides the tools and technology to document business processes and their dependencies and enables understanding of how the process works, end to end as well as measure business performance from that customer-centric end-to-end perspective.

BPMS or Business Process Management Systems provides the tools and technology to control and monitor process operations, automate the workflow, allow integration of various IT systems, enforce business rules and continuously monitor the key performance indicators.

  Results driven consulting

“The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it’s the same problem you had last year” - John Foster Dulles

Differential delivers results oriented consulting for EA and BPM (BPA + BPMS). We tie in Enterprise Architecture to BPM via capability maps that cut across corporate functions and locations. Each capability in the capability map is linked to supporting processes, which describe the flow of work from beginning to end including interactions or touch points with the customer or trading partner. Our partnership with BPM tool vendors enables us to implement an integration framework for BPM that includes both Process Modeling and Executable Design including the Human Task Framework, the Integration Framework, the Business Rules Framework and Complex Event Processing. BPM plays a central role in business process improvement initiatives which feature comparative analysis of current-state and proposed process models.

 The result? An Adaptive, Dynamic, Flexible and Agile enterprise.