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Organisational Politics hampers BPM and BPM COE’s but WHY?

Gartner states that Organisation politics is one of the main reasons for BPM and specifically BPM Centers of Excellence adoption.

One must ask yourself why this is the case given the strong business promise that is associated with BPM. Some of the reasons that we need to explore are:

  • The promise is over-estimated and once business become engaged with the concept this is realised and hence the lack of continued support, or
  • The change management is once again lacking, leading to a lack of buy in, or
  • All the roles and responsibilities of the business, IT and the center of Excellence is not clear, agreed and contracted, or

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OVATIONS BLOG
  • Enterprise Architecture, FM Essentials
    Our piece on Enterprise Architecture, following interview with Chris Kleb who leads our EA practice. Link to article on FM essentials below. Enterprise architecture is a discipline which seeks to addr …
  • The social side of strategy – McKinsey Quarterly – Strategy
    Can you crowd source your strategy? Great article and examples from HCL and Redhat. Full link to article on McKinsey below. Rethinking planning at HCL Technologies HCL Technologies, the Indian IT serv …
  • Telecom’s Competitive Solution: Outsourcing? – Vijay Govindarajan – Harvard Business Review
    Really interesting post on Harvard Business Review about Bharti, the largest Indian telecoms company, who choose to outsource their technology. As it happens they use IBM for their IT. Full link below …

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