BPM in Small Organizations: Analysis, Adoption, and Recommendations

This presentation explores the application of Business Process Management (BPM) within small organizations. It begins with an introduction to BPM and its relevance, followed by a background on small businesses and their contribution to the economy. The presentation then delves into the application of BPM, explaining its tools and methodologies used. A case study is presented to illustrate the practical implementation of BPM. The adoption of BPM techniques, along with the consequences of implementation, are discussed, followed by recommendations for further improvement. The conclusion summarizes the key findings, emphasizing the potential for future development in BPM delivery models, tools, and technologies. The presentation utilizes references to support the arguments and findings.

Business Process
Management And Systems
BPM in small organizations
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Introduction
 The presentation provides the
information about BPM or Business
process modelling used in the small
businesses (Kaplan & Atkinson, 2014).
 The presentation is used for the
description of the background of the
BPM techniques used in the smaller
organizations and the adoption of the
technique by the organizations.
 The consequences of adoption in the
smaller organizations and the
recommendations for further
improvement have also been provided
in the presentation.

Background
 The discussion has been provided here
for the small sized businesses.
 The smaller business contribute a great
percentage business for the whole of
Australia(Parzan et al. 2017).
 A small business generally consists of 20
employees approximately.
 The small business also contributes to a
great deal in the productivity for the
country of Australia

Introduction to BPM
 Mapping out the regular businesses
 Finding ways to improve the business
procedures of the organization
(Jetson, 2014).
 The common practice for the process
are automating the manual
procedures in the business process of
the organization.
 The main focus is provided on
improving the corporate functions of
the organizations.

The Business
 A suite of outsourced
Management Accounting
Services.
 The business was designed for
meeting the need for the small
and medium sized business.
 The business is in a pilot phase
 The full suite are provided to the
clients
 The business process have been
designed for the long-term
viability and competitiveness of
the business.

Application of BPM
 The technology helps in the
integration of IT and Business (Chang,
2016).
 The application are work accurately
so that they can display the business.
 The tools helps in structuring the
workflows that takes place within the
organization.
 BPM also helps in efficient completion
of the tasks.

BPM method used
 The small business methodologies were
used for the organization
 The smaller sized organization, who have
more of a simpler structure rather than the
large sized organizations (Kerzner &
Kerzner, 2017).
 Hence, the method helps in reduction of the
complexities for the organization
 The methodology deviates from the
methodologies which have been used
traditionally in the larger businesses.

Explanation of BPM adoption
 The adoption of the technique involved in
business processes of the organization would
include the comparison of the consistency in
the quality and maintaining the time with the
competitors (Rosemann & vom Brocke,
2015).
 The labour management would be helpful in
minimizing the costs for the labours whereas
the competitors look to utilize the by using
the highly experienced skilled labours.
 The ability of implementing the technologies
such as the workflow and document
management would be used which is
currently in limit b y the competitors.

Consequences of BPM adoption
 The documentations and the process models have been very beneficial
for the training and referencing purpose of the organization.
 The assistance in gaining a shared understanding of the system and
how the system works.
 Resources allocation is also included in benefits of adopting the BPM
technique for the organization.

Recommendation
 Development of small stream which is
more defined would be very useful for
the organization in order to achieve
better focus for the organizations.
 Further considerations are to be made
for the development Small Business
specification with specific
implementation and delivery techniques
used for the further development of the
business.
 There are a number of demands which
mean that the practitioners of the BPM of
the small businesses.

Conclusion
 For conclusion it can be said
that the presentation has
been made by using only a
single business case study.
 It has been shown that the
BPM tools and techniques
would be applied for the
small sized organizations.
 There are options for further
explorations in this sector.
 There are potentials for
further development for the
BPM delivery models, tools
and technologies that are to
be improved.

References
 Chang, J. F. (2016). Business process management systems: strategy and
implementation. Auerbach Publications.
 Rosemann, M., & vom Brocke, J. (2015). The six core elements of business process
management. In Handbook on business process management 1 (pp. 105-122).
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
 Kerzner, H., & Kerzner, H. R. (2017). Project management: a systems approach to
planning, scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
 Jeston, J. (2014). Business process management. Routledge.
 Kaplan, R. S., & Atkinson, A. A. (2015). Advanced management accounting. PHI
Learning.
 Pourmirza, S., Peters, S., Dijkman, R., & Grefen, P. (2017). A systematic literature
review on the architecture of business process management systems. Information
Systems, 66, 43-58.