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October 2006 Business Process Improvement Survey: Creating Smarter, Faster, Cheaper Processes is IT



By Allan Alter


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  1. October 2006 Business Process Improvement Survey: Creating Smarter, Faster, Cheaper Processes is IT
  2. ' Improving business processes is '
  3. ' Although process improvement is '

Companies are turning to IT to help their operations be more productive, and their strategic planners and knowledge workers make better decisions.

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a priority, the pace of change is moderate.">

Finding 2. Although process improvement is a priority, the pace of change is moderate.
Companies rarely seek to radically re-engineer their business processes. Except for IT and customer service, 30 percent or less of departments are undergoing large-scale changes at this time. One red flag: The pace of change is slowest in engineering and manufacturing. That does not bode well for innovation or the health of the manufacturing sector. IT executives feel their own department is undergoing the greatest change. Whether objective fact or subjective feeling, it underscores the enormous changes that our August IT Organization survey revealed. We also found that the corporate IT department is actively involved in process change in most departments, though again not as much as in 2002—a surprising finding, given how centralized corporate IT has become.

Research Guide:

  • Finding 1: Improving business processes is the top priority for many IT executives, especially at small and midsize companies.
  • Finding 2: Although process improvement is a priority, the pace of change is moderate.

    Read our previous surveys on process improvement:

  • Top Trends 2006: The Pursuit of the Frictionless Business Platform
  • Necessity is the Mother of Velocity
  • Focusing IT on Innovation Will Come Back Into Vogue
  • Mobile Devices Will Become Strategic Necessities
  • Mobility + Collaboration = Productivity
  • Process Management Revs Up
  • The Real-Time Enterprise 2003: Can You Keep Up With Business Change? (July 2003)
  • Business Process Management (August 2002)

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  • What's Driving Toyota?
  • Strategic Technology: Product Lifecycle Management Moves Ahead (July 2006)
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