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Vinit1107
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 Business Process Management
BPM, BPM modeling, IT careers
What are the prerequisites for career in Business Process Management.

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ASKED: June 19, 2008  8:47 AM
UPDATED: June 14, 2011  11:55 AM
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For business process management one has to have good management skills, aptitude to understand business streams at a faster pace and years of experience on various business processes. One must be able to understand the business requirements viz a viz the existing scenario so that he/she is able to analyze the gap. Good communication skills are equally required.
Last Wiki Answer Submitted:  July 11, 2008  11:21 am  by  Jaideep Khanduja   8,200 pts.
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Hey Jaideep,

Thanks for your feedback. Is management skills a must for BPM career? I mean you need some basic management skills in every job. Can you please explain with some case studies?

Vinit1107
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Hello Vinit,
Yes, management skills are definitely a must for BPM career without which you can not travel on this road. If not all, the main skills you require shall be:

    Openness
    Inquisitive
    Vertical and Horizontal Knowledge of business
    Best Practices being adopted around the globe
    User Interaction
    Key user identification
    Management Meetings
    Communication
    Solution Oriented
    Exposure of different cultures (for offshore projects)
    Adaptability (of different cultures/ work environment)

Case Studies can be discussed off hand as and when required as it will require some time to recollect/ gather information. Above all is as per my own experience.

Jaideep Khanduja
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The skills mentioned by Jaideepkhandu are the same skills required of a Business Analyst, as defined in the IIBA Business Analysis Body Of Knowledge.
The ability to make rapid changes in business processes requires a disciplined approach to defining business process architectures. An agile application development infrastructure is also needed to enable reconfiguring application functionality when needed by business challenges. A Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is often mentioned as a required infrastructure for this agile reconfiguration process.

dmonk
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Vinit,

New to this site and I recognize this posting is years behind, but I wanted to add to what Jaideep is saying and ad that an understanding of managment is very important. Having worked on remote projects with teams from Malaysia, Russia, India, the Phillipines and the United States I have noticed that many international projects run aground because there is not a common understanding of the managment process.

In the 60′s Douglas McGreggor wrote a thesis on human motivation for managers. This was called theory X and theory Y. There is a huge difference in the way the two theories operate. I’ve found that most Americans are used to working in a theory Y environment and most other international teams focus on theory X. (You can look up the details of the difference on the web.

Without an understanding of these two theories I think it it would be impossible to be successful as a business process manager. Particularly if you were working on an international team.

James Murray
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