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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 '

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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.

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  • 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.

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  • The Real-Time Enterprise 2003: Can You Keep Up With Business Change? (July 2003)
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