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Recent BPI Articles

December 14, 2011 from Industry Week – “…The very successful companies, the leaders in their industries, generally have senior executives and management teams that understand it’s not people screwing things up, it’s the processes that are not up to the challenge of today’s business complexity, and it’s the processes that need to be improved. This [...]

October 19, 2011  from Industry Week – “I have often been asked whether continuous improvement (CI) is possible without technology change, and I tell people that CI is about making changes to business processes, not necessarily technology. Without a doubt, technology change is often an enabler that allows CI to occur, but it is not [...]

November 10, 2011 from InfoWorld – “Fraud cost organizations 2.1 percent of earnings in the past 12 months, which is equivalent to a week of revenues over the course of a year, according to the Kroll Annual Global Fraud Report, a recent survey that polled more than 1,200 senior executives worldwide.
The research does contain some [...]

April 18, 2011 from strategy+business – “Many executives think of business intelligence (BI) merely as a software solution that needs to be bought and installed, a reporting tool for serving up data on a convenient “dashboard.” As a result of this misperception — and despite the significant procurement, installation, and maintenance costs — BI systems [...]

Recent Project Management Articles

December 2011 from Project Times – “…In a recent webinar, Joseph Grenny hypothesized that the root cause underlying these and other problems in projects is failure to effectively hold crucial conversations.  It is the Abilene Paradox in action, where silence or avoiding difficult confrontations robs the project team and its organization of the ability to [...]

August 21, 2011 from the Toronto Star – “Ambitious IT projects are ticking time bombs that can bring down corporations if they’re not carefully managed to come in on time and on budget, warns a study in the Harvard Business Review.
The Oxford University researchers examined 1,471 information technology projects, in private and public sectors, comparing [...]

October 13, 2011 – I attended a Microsoft event in Toronto recently and Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management, spoke about a number of interesting topics. One of them was about happiness. Roger’s view is that you 1) need to be a member of a community that values your involvement, 2) You [...]

June 2011 from Project Times – “In my 20 years of experience both as a former VP of Operations and a business consultant and entrepreneur, I’ve run across many different companies in different industries with different people, different processes and different systems, and yet they all typically have the same challenge – successful project management. [...]

Systems

BPI’s goal is to optimize the efficiency and effectiveness of business processes. Efficiency is about doing things right with the least amount of resources and effectiveness is about doing the right things. Doing the right things is often defined by an organization’s critical success factors, defined as what must be done in order for an organization to be successful. There are multiple tools that are used in BPI including project management, flowcharting and business process management. Corporate Performance Management also contains tools for BPI - See our BI / CPM portal.

The products have been segregated by tier based on target customer and price. Within each tier, we have further classified which applications are applicable to the systems as well as the distribution model. See the filter box above to sort for the desired tier, application, and distribution model.

Tier One/Enterprise (Customer Revenues > $200M, Customer Employees > 500, License Fees > $300k and Implementation Fees:License Fees > 2:1)

• Appian
• ARIS Platform
• Asta
• Metastorm
• Microsoft Project
• Pegasystems
• Primavera

Tier Two/Mid Market (Customer Revenues $10M-$200M, Customer Employees 50-500, License Fees $50k-$300k and Implementation Fees:License Fees 1:1-2:1)

• Appian
• Artemis
• Asta
• Metastorm
• Microsoft Project
• onProject
• Pegasystems
• Planview
• Primavera
• Savvion
• Ultimus

Tier Three/Entry Level (Customer Revenues <$10M, Customer Employees <50, License Fees <$50k and Implementation Fees:License Fees <1:1)

• Appian
• Artemis
• Microsoft Project
• onProject
• Planview
• Savvion
• Ultimus

VARs

Value Added Resellers (VARs) implement ERP products. However many of the products listed are also implemented by the companies that own the products.