Analysis of Business Process Management and Organizational Alignment

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Business Process Strategy & Organizational Processes and
Structure
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Connecting business process and Organizational Strategy
The author-demonstrated link between business process and organizational process and structure
Organizations are exchanging value with customers and stakeholders, which is strategy. The
organizations are doing this through a series of coordinated activities through different functional
elements of the organization, which is process. Organizations are optimizing these processes for
satisfying the customers and stakeholders’ requirement, through process improvement. The
process management is enabling organizations to focus upon activities, for creating value
exchange through strategy execution (Tregear, 2016). Therefore, it article is significantly linking
with the business process management and organizational process; this is why the item has been
selected.
The critical success factors of business process management
It is crucial for the marketers to identify the critical success factors in the business process
strategy and management, so that it could be successfully aligned with the organizational
processes and structure. Considering this, the article by Trkman (2010) has proposed a
theoretical framework for identifying the critical success factors of BPM in different
organizational context. The author proposed the framework, by utilizing three theories,
“contingency, dynamic capabilities and task–technology fit”. The critical success factor
identified is the fit between business environment and business processes. It can be said that this
article could help in understanding how the business process management and strategy
development could be effective for organizational processes, which is the reason for selection.
How to link process and organization structure?
Process is delivering the positive outcomes to a customer or beneficiary. The understanding of
business processes could be understood for improving organizational design and structure. The
organization design is challenging about how to ensure that people engaged in the process of
delivering a teaching session, are not losing site of the customer and customers’ needs. the author
proposes that understanding of core principles of good organization structure and design, like
“structure by process”, in – depth understanding about the business process strategies could be
used for improving organizational design (Campbell, 2017). This item is helping to enhance
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understanding about the link between business process and organizational structure, for which
reason it has been chosen.
Organizational strategy, structure and process
The organizational processes or business process management is a complex subject, which
makes organizational adaptation difficult. The study by Raymond et al., (1978) proposed a
theoretical framework, which is able to deal with alternative ways through which the
organizations are defining their “product-market domains (strategy) and construct mechanisms
(structure and processes) for pursuing these strategies”. The topic of portfolio is “Business
Process Strategy and Organizational Processes and Structure”. Therefore, the current item would
help to create in – depth knowledge in this area along with understanding of their connection.
This is why the item has been selected.
How to improve your Business Process Management strategy
In this video, the author revealed that business process management is actually a way to
sustainable business management, which one of the top management process. Thus, the
utilization of BPM is very high. It is an excellent approach to harmonize and align business
strategies in organization, which then has a very intense effect on achieving systematic business
outcomes as well. Through process orientation, it could be improved and sustained (Bernstorf,
2012). This item helped to understand the importance of BPM and key ways through which BPM
could be improved in organizational context. This is the reason for selecting this item.
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Reference List
Bernstorf, J., 2012. How to improve your Business Process Management strategy. Online.
Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nClRWpWp7iY [Accessed on: 1st April 2019]
Campbell, A., 2017. How to link process and organization structure? Online. Available at:
http://www.bpminstitute.org/resources/articles/how-link-process-and-organisation-structure
[Accessed on: 1st April 2019]
Raymond, M., Charles, S. and ALAN, D., 1978. Organizational strategy, structure and process.
Academy of management review, 3(3), pp.546-562. URL:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/40937591_Organizational_Strategy_Structure_and_Pro
cess/download
Tregear, R., 2016. Connecting business process and Organizational Strategy. Online. Available
at: https://blog.leonardo.com.au/connecting-business-process-and-organizational-strategy
[Accessed on: 1st April 2019]
Trkman, P., 2010. The critical success factors of business process management. International
journal of information management, 30(2), pp.125-134. URL: http://www.dl.edi-info.ir/The
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