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The Perfect Process Project
Gary
Comerford
CEO, Entrepreneur, Writer
g_comerford@gcp-consulting.com
The
Perfect Process Project: What do
you
REALLY need to make your
processes work?
Why have lots of current business process projects
resulted in dissatisfied users?
Why do a large number of projects designed to define business processes
fail?
Simple:
They don't understand the key
points to
running a
business process project. Not the actual running of the project itself,
but the factors that need to be added to make the "process part" of the
project a success.
How would you like to be able to :
Identify
those items,
Help
you understand what the problems are,
Propose
solutions for them.
This eBook will take you through the main problems with
process type projects and help you understand real solutions to
the key
problems.
Why should you be concerned about this? Because of what the
experts are saying:
What are industry experts saying
about Business Processes?
"Business
as usual" IT will not
be sufficient for organizations that wish to
exploit the opportunities that the confluence of business and IT
brings.
Companies and
public-sector enterprises are fundamentally changing their business
models to compete on a global stage, changing strategies, structures
and processes as they do so.
Gartner RAS
Core Research Note G00157495, John Mahoney, Barbara Gomolski, 27 May
2008
Business
architects will be hot due to the growth in
enterprise apps such as SAP, new business/IT technologies such as
business process management (BPM), and the increased risk of changing
business processes.
Forrester
Research: "What are the hot roles in IT?", Marc Cecere,
Laurie M.
Orlov, Aug 14th 2008
In most
enterprises, the ongoing level of manual operations
offers fertile ground for improvements in operational efficiency.
Several concrete examples from a broad variety of industries show how
business process management (BPM) tools have proven uniquely qualified
to assist organizations in improving their operational
efficiency.
Forrester Research: Using BPM To
Improve Operational
Efficiency, Ken Vollmer, with Gene Leganza, Mimi
An, Kahini Ranade, July
2008
I've worked in IT for over 20 years - usually in big projects.
One thing that struck me as I worked through all these projects is that
there are key failure reasons running through them all. The Gartner
Group
estimate that the majority of IT projects do not deliver the value they
were supposed to deliver, and this is equally true for projects
involving business process work.
Why?
Because people do
not manage business process projects
correctly!
To understand what I mean, listen to a short (8 minute)
audio extract taken directly from the ebook. (This is me reading the initial
chapter and a few select extras. It is for information only.You will NOT get any audio
version
when you purchase the ebook). Click the red
button to
listen:
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This ebook is just £5.99 (+
VAT)*
Still
not convinced? Read on......
How do you learn
to manage process projects?
Once you understand what makes a process project work it is
much easier to define how to manage them appropriately.
With this book you will:
Learn to identify the key focus areas, both during and
after
your project, that will drive success and help gain acceptance for your
new process by the user community.
There are
several definitions and objectives one must
understand to optimize the process project:
You must understand the key reasons a process
project fails.
From the time a lot of projects are first presented to the users, right
to the time the project team finishes and leaves the final product in a
live environment, there are failure factors that occur. Learn what
these are and how to avoid them.
You must understand the key items to be used
to make a process project succeed.
Understand the few key items that must be in place to ensure your
process project works appropriately. Learn about "Comerford's
3 Laws of Metrics" and how
they apply to your process. Understand the key role to be held by a
Process Owner (and who that process owner must be), and learn
the one HUGE
factor
that will make the difference between success and failure.
You must have the right people in the right
roles on the project
Pretty straightforward eh? Makes sense? It is
sense! In
fact it's common sense. But the problem with common
sense
is that it's
just not that common. This book will identify who needs to
be in what
key role and why.
Still not convinced? Read Chapter One!
How would you like to actually read a couple of
pages from the book?
That's right. Here and now I am going to give
you a link to
read a couple of pages directly
from the eBook. This is, in fact,
Chapter One. It's quite a short chapter, but don't worry - there are
much more substantial ones later on.
This is yours to take away free of
charge - you
don't even have to register. Just click on the graphic and the pages
will download to your hard drive.
This file should be readable on all
operating
systems
with the Adobe software installed. I would strongly suggest you
download another PDF file prior to this to ensure compatibility with
your system. If you don't have another PDF to download try
this
link as a test.
(Click the icon below to
download the latest version of Adobe Reader
if you don't already have it)
Here's
what you'll
get when you buy
'The
Perfect Process
Project"
Chapter 1: The Typical
Process Project
Where we
discuss what
currently happens in a lot of projects.
Chapter 2: Key Project
Issues
Where we
identify why the
current projects are failing.
Chapter 3: What about the
acronymns?
Where we
touch on the
subject of TLA's (Three Letter Acronyms).
Chapter 4: The Ideal
Process
Where we
talk about what
an ideal process will look like.
Chapter 5: The Ideal
Project
Where we
talk about the
ideal project to implement the process.
Chapter 6: Summary
Where we
summarise the
book and identify the key items to takeaway.
Appendixes
Various
additional pieces
of documentation (See
special bonus below)
This book is 40
pages long
This ebook is just £5.99 (+
VAT)*
If
you aren't happy with your purchase, drop me a line and I will deal
with it.
I want you to be
100% satisfied.
BONUS!
As
a BONUS
for ordering
"THE PERFECT
PROCESS PROJECT"
you will also
get:
The
Art of Process
Facilitation (Worth
£4.99)
When
you buy this
ebook you will receive (as
an
appendix) 'The
Art of Process Facilitation'. This short essay identifies
the 8 key tips that I have employed when running process facilitation
projects with large (and small) companies. Who should be in a
facilitation session? Why should you go round in circles? And what has
the Hype Cycle got to do with this? You'll find all this out
in 'The Art of
Process Facilitation'.
Free
Updates (Worth £11.98
over 2
years)
As a further
bonus, if you provide
your e-mail
details after
you purchase I will send you, free of charge, any updates
to the book
as a result of feedback or further research. Therefore you pay one
amount and get continuous
updates thereafter. This offer will cover a potential
re-release each year for the next 2 years, as a minimum.
BPM - The New Killer App?
As a third bonus you will
receive "BPM - The
New Killer App?', a white paper explaining why you need to
be looking at BPM as a concept, not necessarily BPM as a tool.
You will receive immediate
access to
this free download when you purchase "THE PERFECT PROCESS PROJECT"
These bonuses together are worth
£17
(approx $30)
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download another PDF file prior to this to ensure compatibility with
your system. If you don't have another PDF to download try
this
link as a test.
(Click the icon below to
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This ebook is just £5.99 (+
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Thank you.
Gary Comerford
PRAISE FOR "THE
PERFECT
PROCESS PROJECT"
"I like this eBook as it’s highly practical
– some
good tips that you can actually use to make your projects better
(rather than hypothetical hyperbole) and some really good real-life
examples. It’s like a little helping hand to guide you along
the way…
Craig Reid - "The
Process Ninja"
"We
used the concepts identified in this book - along with
a process review session run by Gary - to identify what was holding
our business back as we start to grow and expand. Management
bought into this and we are now moving forward confident that we can
solve the issues that usually cause process problems."
Virginia
Filmer-Sankey - The Adaro Group
We think this book
is short and sweet and would recommend it to all our clients thinking
of
starting a process review project
Mike Ater - CEO,
ProMis
Solutions AG
© 2008 Gary Comerford
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