The First 180 Days, Part 1

In this series of two posts, we’ll lay out the development of what we call the Enterprise Plan Program. Think of this as the plan for rolling out a BPM initiative across the company in the first 180 days and beyond.

The objective of the Program is to develop the plan for how the enterprise BPM program needs to be rolled out and managed past the “startup” (or Pilot) phase. This includes a consideration of strategy, governance, organizational capability and infrastructure impact. In many cases, the team driving this deliverable must also answer how the enterprise BPM initiative fits with other business and technical initiatives that may already be in progress.

Enterprise BPM initiatives require well-defined operating procedures for selecting projects, governing delivery, staffing teams and managing infrastructure requirements. We call these procedures the Four Pillars of Enterprise BPM:

The Enterprise Plan team’s objective is to define the initial plans for each of the above pillars. These plans will set the direction for the BPM initiative past the startup phase. For many companies, the documents produced by the Enterprise Plan team form the basis for a business plan justifying the next round of funding for the BPM initiative.

Ed.: On Friday, Fahad will discuss the Enterprise Plan Program in greater detail, and outline a set of granular best practices attached each of these pillars.

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