Wood or trees?
It is a couple of years since this blog commented on the problem with management fads. Despite the fall from grace for Business Process reengineering (BPR), the benefits have continued to be realised, and the thinking has developed in the form of Business Process Management (BPM), but now there are the tell-tale signs of this discipline being consigned to the scrap heap.
This is partly a collective failure of industry to see the bigger picture; especially when effective processes are increasingly vital to survive and thrive in recessionary times. Seeing the wood rather than the trees would make it plain that there are significant benefits to be realised from a well managed BPM programme. However, it will be the responsibility of process practitioners to address the concerns of the market by introducing standards and transparency. Only this action can stop BPM becoming another failed management fad and a wasted asset.
