TY - BOOK AU - Smith,Howard AU - Fingar,Peter TI - Business process management: the third wave SN - 0929652339 U1 - 658.5 22 PY - 2003/// CY - Tampa, Florida PB - Meghan-Kiffer Press KW - Reengineering (Management) KW - Technological innovations KW - Strategic planning KW - Management information systems KW - Information technology KW - Information resources management KW - Organizational change N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Ch. 1. The Next Fifty Years -- Ch. 2. A Walk Over the Hill -- Ch. 3. Enterprise Business Processes -- Ch. 4. Business Process Management -- Ch. 5. Reengineering reengineering -- Ch. 6. Business Process outsourcing -- Ch. 7. management Theory, R.O.I. and Beyond -- Ch. 8. Implementing Business Process Management -- Ch. 9. Tomorrow's Interview in BPM3.0 Magazine -- Epilog -- Appendix A. The Language of Process -- Appendix B. Business Process Management -- Appendix C. The Theoretical Foundations of the Thrid Wave -- Appendix D Lessons Learned from Early Adopters -- Appendix E. The New MBA Curriculum -- Index N2 - While the vision of process management is not new, existing theories and systems have not been able to cope with the reality of business processes - until now. This book heralds a breakthrough in process thinking that obliterates the business-IT divide, utterly transforms today's information systems and reduces the lag between management intent and execution ER -