Doing more with less
Many organisations are currently blighted by severe overstretch. Whilst is is easy to understand why, what are the practical means to prevent it’s pernicious implications and avoid the mistakes of the past?
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Competing for major contracts using Qmap
The Rydon Group is a construction, development, maintenance investment and management group operating in Southern England. In 2008, having successfully piloted an improved business and quality management system in one division as part of a move to gain ISO 9001, 14001 and 18001, the company sought to capture, improve and implement its end-to-end processes through [...]
Doosan leading the way in green power generation with Qmap
How does the UK’s leading provider of power generation services remain best in class and achieve its goal of being number one in the world? It uses Qmap to manage its processes. See http://bit.ly/egWpbk Tweet This Post
E Squared have made Qmap even better
After only a few months on the market, E Squared’s latest generation of Qmap products have already been described as: ‘a quantum-leap – a huge step forward’ in business process analysis, improvement and management. A range of companies from small consultancies to global enterprises have quickly sought to benefit from the advantages new Qmap creates [...]
What is a process? The mad world of BPMN.
We have written previously about the strange world of process automation. A very recent article at BPMS Watch, entitled ‘What is a process’ sums up the madness. This is one reason why we are not great fans of BPMN and why, certainly where End Users are concerned, BPMN and swimlanes should be avoided like the [...]
How to achieve the impossible: operational improvement with 60% fewer staff
Optimising efficiencies whilst maintaining full operational effectiveness is difficult for any organisation to achieve. Doing so with 60% fewer staff in an environment where any fall in effectiveness can cost lives might therefore seem impossible. But this is what Defence Estates are achieving with the long-standing support of E Squared and Qmap. See the full [...]
Software licensing: the best of both
As the delivery mechanisms for proprietary software have evolved, from boxed product to server and hosted applications, so have the mechanisms for its pricing. Before the advent of networks, servers and the internet, software licensing was largely determined by connectivity limitations but with connectivity now being ubiquitous and in one way or another server-driven, the [...]
New BPM Planning and Modelling Service
In support of a powerful new case study which details how one company used BPM to generate a 15%+ profit increase over 18 months, E Squared is launching a new BPM Planning & Modelling Service today.
Practical BPM case study
Bernardo Tirado recently published an interesting case study on what he referred to as Business Process Re-engineering and to which we would refer as BPM. His experience of managing a process project is very common and the approach he takes, although not rocket science, is sound and practical. In many ways BPM projects are similar [...]
Excellent article on the confusing world of BPM
Infosys have just produced a very good article on the confusing world of Business Process Management. See http://www.infosysblogs.com/setlabs/2010/09/. We will be looking at this further in our series of articles on BPM. In the meantime if you need any explanations on any of the terms used, just give us a call at E Squared or [...]