The Case for Process Centering / Part I: |
Doing Business in the Face of Change / Chapter 1.: |
The Changing Business Environment / 1.1: |
The Fundamental Success Factors / 1.1.1: |
The New Challenge: Accelerated and Unpredictable Change / 1.1.2: |
The Results of Change: What Is Really Happening? / 1.1.3: |
The History of Change / 1.1.4: |
Where Are We Today? / 1.2: |
Problems with Today's Corporation / 1.2.1: |
Today's Challenge / 1.2.2: |
Summary / 1.3: |
Traditional Ways of Coping with Change / Chapter 2.: |
The Nature and Sources of Change / 2.1: |
The Ping-Pong Response of Organizations to Change / 2.1.1: |
Today's Customer-Driven Environment / 2.1.2: |
Competition in the 21st Century / 2.1.3: |
Traditional Responses to Change / 2.2: |
Total Quality Management / 2.2.1: |
Business Process Reengineering / 2.2.2: |
Limitations of Traditional Reengineering / 2.2.3: |
Limitations of the Traditional Approaches to Process Change / 2.3: |
The Imperfection of Customer Needs / 2.3.1: |
The Process Paradox / 2.3.2: |
What Now? A Change in Managerial Attitudes / 2.4: |
The Economic Value in Process Centering / 2.5: |
Managing Work for Value Enhancement / 3.1: |
The Value Contribution of Work / 3.1.1: |
The Questionable Value Contribution of Downsizing / 3.1.2: |
Investment in Business Processes for Economic Value Added / 3.2: |
Impact on the Customer / 3.2.1: |
Relevance to Overall Strategic Direction / 3.2.2: |
The Viability of the Process / 3.2.3: |
The Worth of the Process / 3.2.4: |
Process Cost / 3.3: |
The Cost of Conformance / 3.3.1: |
The Cost of Nonconformance / 3.3.2: |
The Cost of Quality as Management Tool / 3.3.3: |
Productivity and Value / 3.3.4: |
The Intellectual Value in Process Centering / 3.4: |
The Emergence of Intellectual Assets / 4.1: |
Intellectual Value Added / 4.2: |
Customer Capital / 4.2.1: |
Intellectual Capital / 4.2.2: |
Net Added Value of Information Processed / 4.2.3: |
The Role of Knowledge Management in Process Design / 4.3: |
Process Centering Fundamentals / 4.4: |
Understanding Processes / Chapter 5.: |
Process Fundamentals / 5.1: |
Classic Definitions / 5.1.1: |
Process Control / 5.1.2: |
Process Capability / 5.1.3: |
Core Concepts of Process Thinking / 5.2: |
Subject Process / 5.2.1: |
Example for Subject Processes / 5.2.2: |
Process Feedback / 5.2.3: |
Process Quality / 5.2.4: |
The Concept of Social Processes: The Human Element / 5.3: |
Open Systems / 5.3.1: |
Business Processes / 5.3.2: |
Process Centering: The Basic Approach / 5.4: |
Process Centering as the Prerequisite for Change / 6.1: |
Definition of Process Centering / 6.1.1: |
Commitment Management / 6.1.2: |
Process Reengineering / 6.1.3: |
Organizational Adaptability / 6.1.4: |
Process Performance and Adaptability / 6.2: |
Definitions / 6.2.1: |
Adaptive Loops in Processes / 6.2.2: |
The Superiority of Process Centering / 6.2.3: |
Commitment Coordination and Process Alignment / 6.2.4: |
What Needs To Be Done / 6.2.5: |
Process Centering: The Response to Change / 6.3: |
Response to Change / 7.1: |
Upsizing and Growth / 7.1.1: |
The Nature of Change / 7.1.2: |
Response Characteristics / 7.2: |
Information Intensity and Process Adaptability / 7.2.1: |
Process Robustness / 7.2.2: |
The Economics of Increasing Returns / 7.2.3: |
Response Strategies for Growth / 7.3: |
Processes as Product Offerings / 7.3.1: |
Market Preempting / 7.3.2: |
Process Investment Strategies for Growth / 7.3.3: |
Process Centering: Role of the Individual / 7.4: |
Process People / 8.1: |
Empowerment, Commitment and Accountability / 8.1.1: |
The Process Professional / 8.1.2: |
The Process Team / 8.1.3: |
Process Work / 8.2: |
Multifunctional Work / 8.2.1: |
Multidimensional Work / 8.2.2: |
Valuable Work / 8.2.3: |
Productive Work / 8.2.4: |
Knowledge-Based Work / 8.2.5: |
Rewarding Work / 8.2.6: |
Work-Driven Shift in Personal Characteristics and Skills / 8.2.7: |
Process-Related Roles and Responsibilities / 8.3: |
Process Centering: The Management Team / 8.4: |
Overseers and Implementers / 9.1: |
Enterprise Transformation Executive / 9.1.1: |
Enterprise Transformation Council / 9.1.2: |
Business Process Management Executive / 9.1.3: |
Business Process Owner / 9.1.4: |
Business Process Management Team / 9.1.5: |
Business Process Management Team Leader / 9.1.6: |
Business Process Stakeholders / 9.1.7: |
Process Management Resources / 9.2: |
Process Contract / 9.2.1: |
Process Training / 9.2.2: |
Information Technology: The Response Integrator / 9.3: |
Change and Information Intensity / 10.1: |
Information Technology / 10.1.1: |
Information Management for Adaptability / 10.2: |
Two Key Process Components / 10.2.1: |
Basic Functional Capabilities / 10.2.2: |
Technology Assessment / 10.2.3: |
Networked Collaborative Systems / 10.3: |
Employee Training / 10.3.1: |
Collaborative Work Practices / 10.3.2: |
Wide-Area Networks / 10.3.3: |
Groupware and Collaborative Computing / 10.3.4: |
Fundamentals of Online Collaborative Systems / 10.3.5: |
Collaborative System Architecture / 10.3.6: |
Information Technology as Integrator / 10.4: |
Deductive Thinking / 10.4.1: |
Inductive Thinking / 10.4.2: |
The Need Paradox / 10.4.3: |
Process-Centered Management / 10.5: |
Basics of Business Process Management / Chapter 11.: |
Process Management Overview / 11.1: |
The Process Management Roadmap / 11.1.1: |
Classification of Business Processes / 11.1.2: |
Process Planning / 11.2: |
Process Identification and Mapping / 11.2.1: |
Process Selection for Reengineering / 11.2.2: |
Process Definition / 11.2.3: |
Customer Requirements / 11.2.4: |
Effective Process-Centered Management / 11.3: |
The Operational View / 12.1: |
The Two Dimensions of Process Management / 12.1.1: |
Commitment Management and Communications / 12.1.2: |
Process Resources / 12.1.3: |
Process Measurements and Controls / 12.1.4: |
Process Adaptability / 12.1.5: |
Process Centering / 12.2: |
Process Structure: The Holistic View / 12.3: |
The Dynamic Business Process / 13.1: |
The Holistic Process Model / 13.1.1: |
The Workflow and Adaptive Loops / 13.1.3: |
Alignment Engineering / 13.2: |
Process Performance and Resources / 13.3: |
Performance Measurement and Control / 14.1: |
Process Measurement / 14.1.1: |
Cycle-Time Reduction / 14.1.2: |
Cycle-Time Basics / 14.2.1: |
Business Cycle Time / 14.2.2: |
Time To Respond / 14.2.3: |
Time to Commitment / 14.2.4: |
Performance Cycle Time / 14.2.5: |
Human Resources and Adaptive Management Organization / 14.3: |
Groupware / 14.4: |
Enterprise Applications / 14.4.2: |
Business Processes as Assets / 14.4.3: |
Design for Adaptability / 14.5: |
Traditional Design Approach to Adaptability / 15.1: |
The Holistic Design Approach / 15.2: |
Process Design Concepts / 15.2.1: |
Design of New Process Structure / 15.2.2: |
Redesign of Existing Process Structure / 15.2.3: |
Design for Robust Commitments / 15.3: |
Design for Process Adaptability / 16.1: |
Backbone Network of Commitments / 16.1.1: |
Workflow Reconfiguration / 16.1.2: |
Design for Accountability / 16.2: |
Culture of Accountability / 16.3: |
Continuous Improvement and Planning / 16.4: |
Process Improvement / 16.4.1: |
Launching the Process / 16.4.2: |
Process Implementation Planning / 17.1: |
Integrated Implementation Planning / 17.1.1: |
The Three Steps of Implementation Planning / 17.1.2: |
Planning for Implementation Problems / 17.2: |
Company-Wide Constraints / 17.2.1: |
Process-Level Impediments / 17.2.2: |
Cultural Resistance / 17.2.3: |
Technology Constraints / 17.2.4: |
Planning for Action / 17.3: |
Process Deployment / 17.4: |
The Process-Centered Organization in Operation / 17.5: |
The Business Process Level / 18.1: |
Process Ownership / 18.1.1: |
Accountability Framework / 18.1.2: |
Process Stakeholders / 18.1.3: |
Continuous Process Assessment / 18.1.4: |
The Enterprise Level / 18.2: |
Operational Responsibilities / 18.2.1: |
The Millennium Enterprise / 18.2.2: |
Appendixes / 18.3: |
The Tools of Process Centering / Appendix 1.: |
Stand-Alone Software Tools / A1.1: |
Process Modeling Tools / A1.1.1: |
Process Documentation Tools / A1.1.2: |
Process Simulation Tools / A1.1.3: |
Process Mapping-Related Activity-Based Costing Tools / A1.1.4: |
Project Management Tools / A1.1.5: |
Groupware/Software Tools for Team Effectiveness / A1.1.6: |
ERP-Based Software Tools / A1.2: |
SAP / A1.2.1: |
Oracle / A1.2.2: |
Abbreviations and Acronyms / Appendix 2.: |
Glossary |
Endnotes |
Bibliography |
Index |
The Case for Process Centering / Part I: |
Doing Business in the Face of Change / Chapter 1.: |
The Changing Business Environment / 1.1: |
The Fundamental Success Factors / 1.1.1: |
The New Challenge: Accelerated and Unpredictable Change / 1.1.2: |
The Results of Change: What Is Really Happening? / 1.1.3: |