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ITO America Podcast Beyond Survival- Thriving on Innovation in a Down Economy Not everyone is affected equally by economic crisis, but regardless all organizations are facing a wealth of challenges and unpredictability as a result of the dynamic market environment that lies ahead in 2009. The initial and logical reaction is to hunker down, cut costs, and just get through it - survival at the expense of anything else. |
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Key Ways to Maximize the Value of Your IT Investment in Challenging Economic Times
In today's challenging economic climate, organizations are looking for ways to deliver improved results with shorter time horizons and fewer resources. One of the most effective ways to achieve this is by reevaluating your IT strategy and expenditures and better aligning them with the current business environment. During an economic downturn the most successful organizations find ways to use technology as a weapon to better achieve their business goals and gain competitive advantage. |
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Oil and Gas Challenges: How to Prepare for the Next Generation of Business
Business process management (BPM) software like Metastorm BPM allows organizations to fully understand core business processes, document them, and automate both human-centric and system-based processes. |
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BPM & EA: Two Smart Investments in a Recession
Business Process Management (BPM) software is designed to automate and improve people intensive business processes, the processes that are often the most manual and therefore the slowest and most cost-intensive. |
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Rise Zaiser, VP IT, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp, Discusses why SMBC looked for a BPM Solution
SMBC is the fourth largest bank in the world based on assets and Rise Zaiser, VP IT, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp dicusses what processes at SMBC are automated with e-Work. |
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Executive Insight into BPM Implementation
James Cartwright, eGovernment Program Manager, City of Philadelphia, PA offers Executive Insight into BPM Implementation. |
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Gina Grabber, Business Consulting Analyst, Discusses Drivers for EA Investments
Gina Grabber, Business Consulting Analyst of a top 5 insurance company, discusses why she invests in Enterprise Architecture and Business Process Analysis technology in order to drive and improve IT solutions. |
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Build for Today, Architect for Tomorrow In most organizations, tension exists between those who need to build for today and those charged with architecting for tomorrow. Usually these are opposing forces, but they should be cooperative. The build for today mindset is productivity-oriented, and driven by time-to-market. Alternately, the architect for tomorrow stance takes a long view. It is concerned with definition and promotion of enterprise standards. |
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Wyeth Global Medical Affairs looks to Metastorm for Business Process Management Solutions
Phil Ditoro, Senior Systems Analyst, Wyeth Global Medical Affairs explains why Business Process Management technology became a priority for Wyeth. |
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Enterprise Architecture: Helping Corporations Overcome the Current Economic Climate
Given the current economic climate, it is imperative that corporations effectively allocate their funding. Beyond stringent budgeting, projects can run more efficiently by eliminating duplication of effort, maintaining focus and addressing communication issues immediately. |
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Basant Menta, HP, Examines How Enterprise Architecture is the Key to Helping Companies Succeed
Basant Menta, Strategist, Process & Portfolio, Hewlett Packard explains why Fortune 500 companies should invest in Enterprise Architecture technology. |
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ROI from BPM Laura Mooney, VP Corporate Communications, Metastorm, addresses the ROI from BPM and how BPM helps organizations increase efficiency, productive and control. |
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Successful Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise Architecture (EA) can help bridge the gap between business and IT and enable your organizational leaders to make better informed decisions. |
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Business Process Improvement: Managing Process Change Using Metastorm ProVision
Historically, business models have been a hierarchical representation of the organizational structure, which related little to these timeliness, cost, and quality issues. True business improvement is driven by optimizing the processes that a business performs. A business process represents how work gets done in the organization. |
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Aligning Strategy with Execution -The Secret to Success
Strategy and goals set direction, but execution drives results. How can you unify these often disparate paths? |
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Metastorm Customer Success Story: Fiat
Metastorm BPM now gives Fiat the ability to track the source of incorrect invoices and to address the inaccuracy instantaneously via automated steps. Time spent on tracking invoices has decreased significantly, and internal resources have since been redeployed to more business-critical activities. |
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Metastorm Customer Success Story: Blockbuster
Using Metastorm Integration Manager for high-performance file management and data transfer, Blockbuster has automated, streamlined, and accelerated the way in which it manages the critical data that runs its distribution supply chain. |
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Customer Success Story: U.S. Airforce
To support its Enterprise Architecture and Six Sigma programs, the 643rd ELSS EA Group required a powerful enterprise modeling tool. After evaluating all the top vendors and solutions, the group chose Metastorm ProVision. |
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CIO Magazine Story: Wyeth's RX for BPM Success
For a pharmaceutical company like Wyeth, no function is more important than research and development- the process of finding the new drugs that will lead to patents and profits. And for the information systems group that supports R&D, BPM is emerging as a key technology and management strategy to make that function more efficient. |