Solutions Review: 15 Process Automation Titles for Your Bookshelf
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There are plenty of free resources available online, (such as Solutions Review’s Business Process Management Buyer’s Guide, BPM Vendor Comparison Map, and best practices section,) but sometimes it’s best to do things the old-fashioned way. There are few resources that can match the in-depth, comprehensive detail of one of the highest-rated process improvement books.
The editors at Solutions Review have done much of the work for you, curating this list of the highest-rated process improvement books on Amazon. Titles have been selected based on the total number and quality of reader user reviews, as well as the ability to add business value. Each of the books listed in this compilation meets a minimum criteria of 50 reviews and a 4-star-or-better ranking.
Below you will find a library of titles from recognized industry analysts, experienced practitioners, and subject matter experts spanning the depths of business process management, process automation, process mapping, and supply chains. This compilation includes publications for practitioners of all skill levels.
Note: Titles are listed in no particular order.
Description: In this step-by-step guide, former Management Consultant and change management expert Theodore Panagacos walks you through the entire discipline of Business Process Management. Learn how to fast-track your organization’s strategy to govern processes, create a process culture, and measure business performance. Best of all, this crystal-clear, convenient-sized book can be put to work in your organization immediately!
Description: Are you baffled by how your department can keep making the same mistakes? Do you feel you have been climbing an unending, uphill battle trying to focus your employees’ limited time on more valuable work? You’re not alone! In fact, these obstacles are so common in business that the solution to getting past them even has a name–business process improvement (BPI). Thankfully, though, you don’t have to be a BPI expert in order to resolve these situations and find the results your business needs to find success again. Written by an experienced process analyst, The Power of Business Process Improvement is the resource you need to find a simple, bottom-line approach to process improvement work.
Description: At last, a simple, well-written survey of process redesign that will help you transform your organization into a world-class competitor. Author Dan Madison explains the evolution of work management styles, from traditional to process-focused, and introduces the tools of process mapping, the roles and responsibilities of everyone in the organization, and a logical ten-step redesign methodology. Thirty-eight design principles allow readers to custom-fit the methodology to the particular challenges within their own organizations.
Description: Value-Driven Business Process Management provides the rationale and methods for using business Process Management (BPM) to gain clarity on how your business operates and develop the ability to put new ideas into action quickly. You learn how to redirect your focus from a “method-and-tool” view of BPM to a more broadly informed view of BPM as a powerful management approach.
Description: This Third Edition of the groundbreaking book Designing Organizations offers a guide to the process of creating and managing an organization (no matter how complex) that will be positioned to respond effectively and rapidly to customer demands and have the ability to achieve a unique competitive advantage. This latest edition includes fresh illustrative examples and references, while the foundation of the book remains the author’s popular and widely used Star Model.
Description: This book provides how-to guidance and examples for three types of maps, namely relationship map, cross-functional process map, and flowchart. It helps readers to effectively apply all three types of maps to make work visible at the organization, process, and job/performer levels.
Description: Unlike other books that promote a specific process and performance improvement discipline, this book shows organizations how to achieve success by fixing basic operational issues and problems using a broad and wide-sweeping process-based toolkit. In addition, it helps individuals who have worked in stale- or siloed-thinking enterprises make the transition to a process or improvement-oriented culture and teaches those who are unfamiliar with process tools to look at their work with a new lens and adopt a continuous improvement and analytical-thinking mindset.
Description: Today’s business environment demands faster responses, better service, and increased agility. The Process Improvement Handbook reveals how to design effective process improvement structures, organizations, and cultures to meet those needs. Focusing on specific process improvement knowledge areas, this practical work establishes the foundation required to create, maintain, and measure processes while equipping practitioners with the necessary skills to deliver consistent, successful outcomes.
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