Business Process Management (BPM)
Business Process Management (BPM) is one of the fields in the management that focuses on putting organizations in the same line with the needs and the wants of the client. This is done by the continuous improvement of the processes in the business through the promotion of business effectiveness and efficiency.
There are BPM traditions which are the management tradition, the quality control tradition and the IT tradition.
Quality control tradition – Through quality control one is able to identify the best of that a task is done which yields the best output by systematic experimentation and identification. Some of the famous quality control traditions are TQM (Total Quality Management) and Lean and Six Sigma.
Management Tradition
This set of tradition doesn’t focus on the quality and the production of products but rather on the overall performance of the organization. It focuses on the management and the organization of the employees so that the corporate goals can be achieved. Some of the management traditions are Balanced Scorecard, Business process Frameworks and the Business Process Reengineering.
IT Tradition
This is involvement of computers and software applications so that the work processes would be automated. Some of the methods used are Expert systems and Business Rules, business management process systems, Business Process Reengineering, Enterprise Resources Planning Applications etc.