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Business Process Management and Six Sigma: Why Neither Can Stand Alone

What is Business Process Management (BPM)?

BPM is a comprehensive methodology, design and maintenance of all aspects of an organization for the sole purpose of meeting and / or their clients’ wishes and needs both efficiently and effectively as possible. BPM attempts to continuously improve business processes, either in stages or radical changes. Either way, these ambitious efforts, practitioners with powerful BPM tools and infrastructure so to enable a comprehensive range of solutions to problem solving. BPM tools can be divided into four groups:

(A) strategy – with tools such as the influence of the environment and the target models, problems and opportunities of models;
(B) Analysis – with tools such as business interaction models, models of organization and communication, and process simulation;
(C) Design – Workflow and process models, use cases and event models, (d) Implementation / Execution – the creation of models and the order of operations, business class and system models.

BPM is a combination of these instruments (and sometimes more) to document in support of the company to understand, measure and improve their business processes. BPM contribute to well-documented and streamlined processes that are necessary to ensure consistency, to ensure the traceability and the focus on the strategy and the objectives of the service.
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