Process excellence periodic table

Announcing the PEX Process Excellence periodic table

Ever wonder what are all the different elements that go into making a process excellence deployment successful? Today’s process practitioners have an almost ever-expanding number of methodologies, tools, and technologies at their disposal, making sense of it all can sometimes seem a bit overwhelming.

So wouldn’t it be nice to have a handy guide that outlined some of the most common of these?

That’s the thinking behind the Process Excellence Periodic Table. In this table, we detail some of the common methods, tools, technologies, metrics, and goals of process excellence. Of course, you won’t find every single thing in this table in use throughout different organizations. Rather, companies take more of a pick-n-mix approach to process improvement using different approaches according to the objective and challenge at hand.

So, with apologies to Dmitri Mendeleev who created the first chemical periodic table, here is our interpretation for process excellence.

We caution that it is not to be used to create and deploy more acronyms within your organization and we deny all responsibility in the event of further jargon creep. And if you want a giggle, check out the acronym for brainstorming….something that some might agree with!

Also, a special thank you to columnists Jeff Cole and Dan Morris for reviewing the first iteration of the table.

Originally published by PEX. You can download the table below

Process excellence periodic table

Process excellence periodic table

The table details some of the common methods, tools, technologies, metrics and goals of process excellence.

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About the author

Dan is one of the founding Partners at Wendan Consulting www.wendan-consulting.com. He has also served as North American Practice Director for Business Transformation at Infosys, Capco, and TCS – three leading international consulting firms and as an Executive Consultant with IBM Global Services. In his career, he has led business transformations and smaller operational improvement projects in insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, banking, automotive, pharmaceuticals, retail, food processing, energy, and government.

He is the coauthor of five books on business process transformation, a columnist for PEX, and the author of over 50 white papers and articles on a variety of business transformation topics. He has spoken internationally at over 30 conferences and serves on the International Board of Directors for the Association of Business Process Management Professionals (ABPMP™). Dan has also served on the Business Architect Association Board and the Forrester International BPM Council.

Dan is a frequent Webinar host for ABPMP and other groups. He is also the co-author of the ABPMP International BPM Practitioner’s certification test, the Business Architect Association certification test, and the ABPMP Common Body of Knowledge (v3). He has led training courses for ABPMP and PEX as well as internal training for major consulting firms.

He is the designer and the co-author of the “Architect, Design, Deploy and Improve” (ADDI) BPM/BPMS Execution methodology. He is a leader in melding Business Architecture, Process Architecture, Enterprise architecture, and current / legacy technology into a single integrated approach to transformation. Working with a small group of senior colleagues, Dan is involved in defining new approaches to address the leading problems in business transformation. These approaches, concepts and techniques are all integrated into the ADDI methodology.