Competitive Advantage in an Era of Change:

It has been said many times: In business, as in life,
the only constant is change.
However, this sentiment has never been more widely shared
than today. Faced with an unprecedented volume and pace
of disruptive marketplace shifts, global organizations are in
need of transparency, agility and compliance, quality and
efficiency as well as improved networking with external
partners and increased internal employee integration -
important components of responsiveness to major change.
Business process management (BPM) is a management
discipline that can help businesses attain these important
attributes. It adds pace and certainty, moving new strategies
into technical or people-based action. It helps “get things
done”. And while building a lasting BPM capability requires
the development of new skills and abilities, it also promises
to help today’s global organizations manage many of the
most challenging marketplace developments they face,
thereby generating immediate value. Companies that
embrace BPM today will enjoy a significant and lasting edge
over the competition. Establishing a “BPM Process” means
creating competitive advantage that is very difficult to copy.
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