White Space Revisited Creating Value through Process

Edited by Geary A. Rummler · Alan Ramias · Richard A. Rummler
Pfeiffer November 2009

Specifications

ISBN-13
9780470192344
Publisher
Pfeiffer
Publication
November 2009
Format
Hardback , 280 pages
Jurisdiction
International ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

When Improving Performance: Managing the White Space on the Organization Chart was published in 1990, it was lauded as the book that launched the Process Improvement revolution. This was the book that first detailed an approach that bridged the gaps between organization strategy, work processes and individual performance. Two decades later, White Space Revisited goes beyond a mere revision of that groundbreaking book and refocuses on the ultimate purpose of organizations, which is to create and sustain value.This book picks up where Improving Performance left off and shares what we have learned about process in the past 15 years since it was published and how the reader (primarily practitioners) can capitalize on these notions in their own pursuit of process excellence.

White Space Revisited is a comprehensive resource that offers process and performance professionals a conceptual foundation, a thorough and proven methodology, a set of remarkable working tools for doing process work in a more significant way, and a series of candid observations about the practice of Business Process Management (BPM). The book’s time-tested methods, models, tools, and guidelines serve to align people, process, and technology

White Space Revisited includes information on a wealth of vital topics and

  • Describes the difference in impact of focusing on single processes vs. large scale improvements
  • Provides an integrated step-by-step blueprint for designing, implementing, and sustaining process management
  • Offers a detailed methodology for strategic and tactical process definition and improvement
  • Spells out how to leverage the power of IT to optimize organizational performance
  • Shows how to integrate the energy and value of Six Sigma, Process Improvement and Process Management into an effective Process Excellence Group
 
 

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables.

Foreword (Paul Harmon).

Preface (Geary Rummler).

Acknowledgments.

About the Authors.

Introduction.

PART ONE White Space Revisited.

1 The Silver Anniversary of Process.

2 Process in a Value Perspective.

3 The Value Creation Hierarchy.

4 Developing the Value Creation Architecture of a Business.

5 Process Management in the Value Creation Context.

PART TWO Designing or Improving the Value Machine.

6 A Framework and Methodology for VCS Design.

7 RPM Walk-Through: Align, Analyze, Design.

8 RPM Walk-Through: Commit, Build, Enable, Adopt.

9 Other RPM Applications.

10 Designing Improvement Capability.

PART THREE Implications.

11 Process and the IT Department.

12 Summary.

Afterword It’s Not Over. . .

List of Acronyms.

Notes.

Index.

About Performance Design Lab.

 

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