Podcast: Why EA and BPM?
Roland Woldt and J-M Erlendson discuss why architecture (“Why EA & BPM?”) and why these two topics might not be even different, but rather be the two sides of the same coin.
Roland Woldt and J-M Erlendson co-host the podcast “What’s Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture and Business Process Management Demystified.” For additional notes, a full transcript of the episode and much, much more, go to the What’s Your Baseline website.
In this episode of What’s Your Baseline, Roland and J-M discuss the why of architecture – specifically enterprise architecture (EA) and business process management (BPM) – and why these two topics are not all that different but rather two sides of the same coin.
The episode will take listeners on a fully immersive introductory tour of EA and BPM, including:
- Terminology
- The four phases of process management
- The history of EA as a practice
- How organizations practice these two topics
- The merger of strategy groups, architecture groups and PMOs
- Capabilities as a bridge between strategy and execution
- Risks and benefits of these capabilities
- Capability configurations as a planning tool
- Case studies of a retail and a military client
If you’re just getting started with business process transformation, or if you find yourself treading water in the alphabet soup often surrounding it, this is a great place to start.
Listen to the full episode below – or subscribe on your podcast platform of preference such as Spotify.
A couple of key quotes to get you started.
J-M on the history of process management:
Roland on collaboration between business process and enterprise architecture:
CREDITS
Content for the podcast and blog post has been provided by Roland Woldt and J-M Erlendson for What’s Your Baseline. Roland and J-M are Software AG employees, but the opinions, intellectual property, stories and subject matter expertise are their own. For more about What’s Your Baseline, go to: https://www.whatsyourbaseline.com/about/
Music by Jeremy Voltz, www.jeremyvoltzmusic.com
CP1 (Welcome)
Wish You Knew Me (Interlude 1)
Be Loved in Return (Interlude 2)
Airplane Seatbelt (Interlude 3)
South Wing (Outro)
References:
The Evolution of Business Process Management: A Bibliometric Analysis
Henry Lizano-Mora, Pedro R. Palos-Sánchez and Mariano Aguayo-Camacho
IEEE Access 2017
The Evolution of Business Process Management as a Professional Discipline
Sandra Lusk, Staci Paley, and Andrew Spanyi
BPTrends, June 2005