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In Search Of Bpm Excellence: Straight From The Thought Leaders

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Don't buy this book. It's more of the same decades old reengineering ideas from people who should know better. Put together by the BPMG.org, a small group of advocates for such ideas who run a for-fee site, for-fee events, etc, the 5-star review above is most likely a plant. Look at the phrase FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ONE BOOK - knocked up by "marketing"? If you want to know what's really happening in BPM, you'd be better off using Google and/or arranging reference visits to customer sites where technology is delivering really substantive change on the ground.

I read this book as part of my BPM training and recommend it without exception. It provides a good grounding from the
well known names in Business Process Change. The technology in BPM can be confusing. Martyn Ould does a nice chapter to explain that.
Andrew Spanyi helps us work out how we motivate the senior executives. Terry Schurters insight into methods is the easiest I have read (see my other reviews).
Taken together the contributors (14 I think) make an easy to read book I completely endorse for anyone wishing to get a complete picture of Process Management.

This book covers a broad range of areas in BPM - some that I don't think most people have really considered. But I think that is the point, to present the broad ramifications of BPM as food for thought. Assuming that was the intent, it did a very good job.

I think the review in infoconomy by Graeme Burton sums it up best "a surprisingly readable guide to the latest best practice in business process management."

That's exactly what I found it to be.

I hate dissing stuff, but this one really disappointed me. Average at best. The book says "By professional, for professionals." Some of the frameworks are useful no doubt, but the insight of a Hammer, or Smith, is not there.
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In Search of BPM Excellence brings together the leaders in BPM from around the globe FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ONE BOOK. In Search of BPM Excellence presents the critical thinking for such key subject areas as: BPM Best Practice, Next Practice, The Real Time Enterprise, Strategy, Framework, BPM Software, BPM in Practice, New extensions to the BPM definition, and more.