I think this is something I can copyright. At least the term...
I must start with some words on the economic situation - although not directly related. The last couple of weeks / months are nightmare for managers - either they are customers, suppliers or anywhere else in the food chain.
The financial storm made most (not all???) companies take out their "optimization programs" and act. As our financial forecast is totally unclear, it is up to each companies economic atmosphere, entry point to the situation and risk assessment to decide how far should their plan updates go.
The name of the game is basically credit lines and cash flow. It affects many other territories in the company but it all starts there - basically this is the major challenge for each company these days.
But, that's not what I had in mind to write about.
So what's Reverse BPM? practically, what I mean by reverse is a different approach to BPM. As most businesses think business process today, yet it might not be reflected in their IT environment, it means that the best value they can get is from putting closer the business processes and the IT. Yet, investing in IT is excellent (well, I'm a stakeholder here) but expensive and has a lead time. So, what do I offer? minor to no change in IT with marginal impact on business visibility into its business processes.
This can be achieved by integrating Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) into existing applications and platforms. This will provide business process insights and KPIs that will allow the business user to optimize the process in time and hence cut costs and generate more revenue.
This reverse approach is not widely adopted, can you figure out why?
