Business Process Management Services

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The Willow Group has achieved IBM SVI partnership status, the first legacy Lombardi partner in North America to accomplish this important objective. We continue to develop a strong alignment with the IBM WebSphere/BPM software teams, in order to build on our 12 years of excellence in business process improvement consulting services. These capabilities are now strengthened by our BPM solutions, aligning proven BPM best practices with the world-class IBM BPM software stack as the enabling technology. Read more about our solutions below.

Willow Group has a dedicated Business Process Management (BPM) practice that offers a unique set of services and solutions. We work with our clients to build a multi-faceted BPM strategy that supports comprehensive adoption. A key part of BPM is an effective technology layer with tools for business users and IT to build, execute, and manage business processes. But ultimately, it is a holistic management method to:

• Align business processes with business value

• Enable business ownership of process design, business rule definition and key metrics

• Allow for both simulation and real-time monitoring of process execution

• Support fast adoption of new and improved processes

• Decrease time-to-market for new products and services

We leverage our BPM Center of Excellence (CoE), partnerships with industry-leading BPM technology suites and our rich history of process design and Business Process Improvement (BPI) expertise to offer a comprehensive set of BPM solution offerings including:

• Needs assessment, solution recommendations and deployment planning for BPM within your organization

• BPM strategy development

  • Business management

  • Process management

  • Organizational design for BPM

  • Controls and metrics

  • BPM technology selection

  • Pilot program identification

• Training and enablement workshops on BPM best practices, governance and facilitation

• Workshop facilitation for your process discovery and analysis sessions

• Establishment of your own BPM Center of Excellence (CoE) by leveraging our research and organizational experience to your organization

• Migration of existing process documentation to BPM platforms through rapid transformation of your existing process maps

• BPM implementation from process definition and design through BPM tool automation.

Each of these discrete solutions provide unique value to your organization, or they can be folded together into a broader program for BPM success.

Partnerships

The Willow Group has partnered with Lombardi Software, a 2009 Leader for BPM Suites in the Gartner Magic Quadrant. In early 2010, IBM acquired Lombardi, and The Willow Group is now a BPM solution provider for IBM's world-class BPM Suite, including Lombardi Blueprint and IBM WebSphere Lombardi Edition (formerly Teamworks). The IBM Suite also includes WebSphere Process Server, ILOG Business Rules Management System (BRMS) and FileNet for documentation centric BPM.

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