Microsoft's People Ready Processes

What are People-Ready Processes?

People-Ready Processes represent the next wave of solutions that enable employees to improve and optimize their day-to-day business processes. Derived from earlier initiatives such as total quality management and business process reengineering, People-Ready Processes go beyond these earlier attempts by dramatically simplifying the tools and skills required.

People-Ready Processes build upon an industry discipline known as Business Process Management (BPM). BPM combines a process-centric and cross-functional approach for improving how organizations achieve their business goals. A BPM strategy focuses on making business processes explicit, and enables greater organizational agility thru enabling the efforts of people to drive process change and rapid innovation. As such, BPM strategies support the alignment of IT and business activities both within the organization and with business partners and suppliers.

People-Ready Processes move beyond traditional automation techniques by providing some more structured process capabilities that empower business users to control and incrementally modify and optimize critical workflow processes. In this respect, the People-Ready Process approach fundamentally differs from prior process management approaches: It does not regard humans as variables to be factored out through automation, but instead recognizes them as key players in driving the improvements and innovation that lead to organizational success.

So in summary, People-Ready Processes leverage the use of technology to gain greater visibility into business processes and to improve the ability for end-users to engage and improve processes through the tools (like Microsoft Office) with which they already are familiar. This ultimately results in the ability to respond to market changes faster—to innovate faster— and adds up to faster, more effective customer responsiveness. And that adds up to considerable competitive advantage.

PNMsoft is a member of Microsoft's BPM Alliance

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About PNMsoft

PNMsoft was founded in 1996 by experts in human workflow processes and specializes in Business Process Management (BPM) and Workflow Automation solutions for business users. The company is a multi-national enterprise with its headquarters in the UK, the R&D centre in Israel and a global network of business partners and associated offices.

PNMsoft is noted for looking beyond pure software issues, towards concerns such as customization and fast ROI.
The company has forged close and long-standing partner relationships, particularly with Microsoft, which has appointed it a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. PNMsoft is also a member of the Microsoft Business Process Alliance.

About SEQUENCE

SEQUENCE is an intuitive BPM software suite based on a graphical flowchart-based platform. It contains powerful options to give users great flexibility in taking an existing business process and converting it from a manual flow to an automated flow.

SEQUENCE provides a full end-to-end BPM solution that includes exploring, modeling, simulation, execution, integration, monitoring and optimization functions. The software interacts with people via Outlook, Windows SharePoint and in other ways. It also interfaces with best-of-breed 3rd party software.