 A recent release from Gartner Inc reveals five business process management predictions that align beautifully with the direction of the Value Network Insights Enterprise Edition.
Business Process Management (BPM) is a management discipline that treats processes as assets that directly contribute to organisational performance. Gartner has made 5 predictions on the advancement of BPM for 2010 and beyond. (See Original Article)
“As organisations continue to embrace BPM to improve business performance during challenging times, this quest is pushing BPM beyond its traditional focus on routine, predictable, sequential processes towards broader, cross-boundary processes that include more unstructured work. Knowledge work is especially complex and unstructured,” said Janelle Hill, research vice president at Gartner. “New BPM technologies will enable the management of unstructured and dynamic processes to deliver greater knowledge worker productivity and competitive advantage.”
By 2012, 20 per cent of customer-facing processes will be knowledge-adaptable and assembled just in time to meet the demands and preferences of each customer, assisted by BPM technologies.
By 2013, dynamic BPM will be an imperative for companies seeking process efficiencies in increasingly chaotic environments. Adopting a more dynamic form of BPM, which focuses on enabling process changes to occur when and as needed will enable organisations to better respond to unanticipated change requirements in business processes, and to handle process changes more effectively.
Through 2014, the act of composition will be a stronger opportunity to deliver value from software than the act of development. Gartner recommends end-user organisations recognise that the movement from applications to compositions will require a shift in how they think about projects, organisations, and collaboration across business and technical roles to achieve business goals.
By 2014, business process networks (BPNs) will underpin 35 per cent of new multienterprise integration projects. Gartner anticipates that, while companies will continue to consume horizontal-integration services — particularly for unique or custom processes that are not available in packaged form — they increasingly will desire prebundled solutions, such as BPNs (prebuilt translation or preconfigured business activity monitoring (BAM) tools), to simplify and accelerate the implementation of complex B2B multienterprise integration projects.
By 2014, 40 per cent of business managers and knowledge workers in Global 2000 enterprises will use comprehensive business process models to support their daily work, up from 6 per cent in 2009.
The Value Network Insights Enterprise Edition helps companies manage dynamic, networked process ecosystems. Using existing business process applications it provides an augmented view of process. It shows the hidden network patterns that really drive performance. Value network modeling and monitoring allows for predictive alerts to when workflow is going to get off track. | 
