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Business Process Management: What BPM Is and Why You Need It

Business process management is about getting the work done. Love it or hate it, processes are the core of a business. They exist in every department and team and are critical to the outcome of operations. Business processes are like a blueprint that defines the pathways and flow of activities that run within and between different business functions, like an employee onboarding process or an invoice approval process.

But moving from point “A” to point “B” along these pathways, and doing it as efficiently as possible, doesn’t come without effort. It takes time, resources, and a bit of good planning to make sure your blueprint is sound and work is running smoothly. That’s where BPM comes into play.

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6 Security Predictions for 2021—And Why They Matter

Understanding industry trends is important for any IT professional, but it’s especially critical for anyone working in security. Teams need to be able to stay a step ahead of a wide range of security threats. With the global COVID-19 pandemic altering the way enterprise organizations do business and their employees work, it’s been a particularly challenging year to achieve this, all while ensuring that the new tools employees need to stay connected and productive don’t put individuals, or the enterprise, at risk. 

Just as the nature of our work style and lives have changed, so too has the threat landscape and the security tools we use to combat it. We’re constantly learning about emerging and ongoing security trends that will impact businesses and customers globally, but with breaches du jour, it’s often hard to know which are the most important. That said, there are six factors that IT and business leaders should keep top of mind to kick off the new year right. 

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The Curse of BPMN: Process Modeling for the Digital Era

If you're an old consultant like me, when you hear the phrase "process modeling," you probably think of a group of people in a stuffy conference room, arguing over how the business does things while someone draws boxes and lines on a whiteboard. For hours and hours.

Such exercises were painful at best, and only modestly helped to achieve their primary goal of process improvement — although in many cases, what the business people really meant by improvement was automation.