business improvement
Business Strategy

target_180.jpgBusiness Strategy needs to be practical and tangible. If you can't implement your strategy and measure your success, it's of little benefit. It's all very well coming up with business improvement ideas, but do they help to achieve strategic goals, or is the money and time is better spent on more strategically aligned initiatives?

Steve regularly teaches courses that show people how to make their strategy tangible and measurable. It's important to link the low level goals and measures into business processes, and create "collection points" and "measurement points" in the processes that help you to see if you are realising operational and strategic goals.

 
Business Analysis & Process Improvement
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Business analysis and improvement can be a daunting task if you have not had the training! Successful business improvement involves People, Processes and Technologies.

Most business owners know how to deliver their product or service, and take pride in doing so; but when things start to grow, it can become more difficult for them to manage. Many businesses face challenges around their third year in operation:

  • handling more customers
  • organisational optimisation and change
  • more sales volume
  • the need to find efficiencies, including automation challenges
  • the need for improving and formalising processes
 

 

Steve has worked in major organisations helping with business analysis and process improvement, and also advising how best to manage their growing number of software applications and technologies, so he has a great grasp of this whole area. We'd like the opportunity for Steve to chat with you over coffee and discuss where your challenges are and how we can help.

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To arrange a no cost, informal chat and see how we can help, please call Steve on 0423 311 839 or contact us using "CONTACT US" on this web site.

 
Business Process Automation

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Business Process Automation is about taking your logical business processes and automating them, embracing people, processes and technologies. It subsumes workflow and system integration paradigms, potentially providing the most productive environment ever seen. Steve has consulted internationally in the area of business process automation:

  • having personally spent time with the initiator of bpmi.org in the U.S.A.
  • discussing BMP with key people in PeopleSoft when in the U.S.A.
  • trained in Intalio pure-play BPMS
  • educated CSC Singapore in process modelling and Intalio BPMS
  • designed, built and delivered a technical roadshow in Intalio BPMS and Web Service Orchestration in Australia and New Zealand
  • sat on an expert panel at QUT on Business Process Improvement
  • Contributed holistic and BPM input to System Architect and ProVision modelling tools, both of which have BPMS interfaces

There is no substitute for experience and knowledge!
If you are considering a business process automation project, contact Barnes-Open on 0423 311 839.

 
BPM Software Is On the Verge...
BPM Software Is On the Verge of Entering a New Phase of Product Enhancements, Says IDC
24/08/2007 10:10:05

The Business Process Management market is expected to show strong growth in Australia and is outperforming the overall market with regards to market growth. On a worldwide prospective, the BPM market accounted for AU$ 1,913.0 million in 2005 and is expected to reach AU$ 4,780.8 million in 2010. That represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20.1% and means higher growth than most other software markets.

NORTH SYDNEY, August 24th 2007, Today's fast paced industry is causing companies to evolve into business optimisation entities. The survival of the fittest is being played out in a different arena, with business optimisation being one of the main themes.

Steve Barnes has had a strong participation in this space for five years now. Call Steve on 0423 311 839 for the vendor-neutral mentoring you need to take you into the world of BPM and business process automation (BPA)!

Read on for more of this report... 

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