When ballooning costs and chaotic workflows send projects spiraling out of control, IT often gets called to put out the fire. But to execute successful business process management, a CIO must not only extinguish the flames, but redirect IT's role from order taker to solution provider.
Newcrest, one of the world's top 10 gold mining companies and Australia's largest gold producer, is aiming to improve its process for metal extraction and gold recovery across its key mine operations, licensing the Mincom Production Accounting (MPA) application.
Who should lead a business performance management project: IT, finance or both? For Lisa Mullaney, former director of Chiquita's financial planning and analysis group, the answer was clear: "This is an application and a tool set that is owned by finance."
Enterprise software provider Metastorm has launched an online workflow modeling service, called Metastorm M3, the company announced on Tuesday.
The OMG (Object Management Group) expects to have a final version of the BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation) 2.0 specification, featuring capabilities such as collaborative process modeling, adopted in mid-2010, OMG said on Friday.