Product Description

Businesses adapt constantly to ensure they stay ahead of the game, but often they are held back by static IT systems dictating process and procedure. By learning how your organisation operates, and what activities and processes are carried out within it, you begin to understand the business more fully and can build better, more flexible IT systems to support improved efficiency and drive profitability.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #234822 in Books
• Published on: 2005-01-25
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 360 pages

Review
"Martyn Ould has re-invented process modelling for the real world. Throw away pre-conceived ideas of wall-to-wall reengineering charts, workflow diagrams and arcane application logic. The author shows us that processes are participatory, concurrent and mobile. Their underlying formalism is interactive role-based computation. With the advent of Business Process Management Systems (BPMS) this important book is essential practice for those modelling processes using languages such as BPML and BPEL." Howard Smith, co-chair of the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI.org) and Chief Technology Officer, Computer Sciences Corporation European Group.

About the Author
Martyn Ould is an independent consultant on the software development process and the design and diagnosis of organisational and business processes. A graduate of Cambridge University, he has over three decades of software development and business process management experience, working for leading software houses and management consultancies Deloitte, Praxis and Logica. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Chartered Engineer, and an experienced author. He regularly lectures to public, government and corporate audiences, and teaches at Oxford and Bristol Universities. Martyn has pioneered the development of the Riva method for business process management.