White Space Revisited : Creating Value through Process

by Geary A. Rummler; Alan Ramias; Richard A. Rummler

• ISBN13: 9780470556887
• ISBN10: 0470556889
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-12-01
• Publisher: Pfeiffer

Summary

When Improving Performance: Managing the White Space on the Organization Chart was published in 1990, it was lauded as the book that launched the Process Improvement revolution. This was the book that first detailed an approach that bridged the gaps between organization strategy, work processes and individual performance. Two decades later, White Space Revisited goes beyond a mere revision of that groundbreaking book and refocuses on the ultimate purpose of organizations, which is to create and sustain value.This book picks up where Improving Performance left off and shares what we have learned about process in the past 15 years since it was published and how the reader (primarily practitioners) can capitalize on these notions in their own pursuit of process excellence.White Space Revisited is a comprehensive resource that offers process and performance professionals a conceptual foundation, a thorough and proven methodology, a set of remarkable working tools for doing process work in a more significant way, and a series of candid observations about the practice of Business Process Management (BPM). The book's time-tested methods, models, tools, and guidelines serve to align people, process, and technologyWhite Space Revisited includes information on a wealth of vital topics and Describes the difference in impact of focusing on single processes vs. large scale improvements Provides an integrated step-by-step blueprint for designing, implementing, and sustaining process management Offers a detailed methodology for strategic and tactical process definition and improvement Spells out how to leverage the power of IT to optimize organizational performance Shows how to integrate the energy and value of Six Sigma, Process Improvement and Process Management into an effective Process Excellence Group

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Introduction

White Space Revisited

The Silver Anniversary of Process

Process in a Value Perspective

The Value Creation Hierarchy

Developing the Value Creation Architecture of a Business

Process Management in the Value Creation Context

Designing or Improving the Value Machine

A Framework and Methodology for VCS Design

RPM Walk-Through: Align, Analyze, Design

RPM Walk-Through: Commit, Build, Enable, Adopt

Other RPM Applications

Designing Improvement Capability

Implications

Process and the IT Department

Summary

Afterword It's Not Over.

List of Acronyms

Notes

Index

About Performance Design Lab

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