New BOOK: the second edition of Fundamentals of BPM

Springer has announced the second edition of Fundamentals of BPM:

http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783662565087

The second edition includes:

- Substantially enhanced and revised chapters on process identification, process discovery, process analysis, process redesign, and process monitoring.

- An extended coverage of the process implementation phase of the lifecycle across two chapters (as opposed to one chapter in the previous edition). One of these chapter is entirely dedicated to process-aware information systems and the other to executable process modelling. The former chapter provides an overview of packaged enterprise systems that support the automation of business processes, including ERP, CRM, SCM, and ECM systems, in addition to an in-depth coverage of BPMSs. The second chapter chapter is focused on designing executable BPMN models for process implementation on top of BPMSs.

- A new chapter on BPM as an enterprise capability, which expands the scope of the book to encompass topics such as strategic alignment and governance of BPM initiatives. This chapter will be of special interest to those of you who teach BPM in business schools.

- Even more exercises: 232 exercises versus 174 in the first edition, which makes it about 20 exercises per chapter on average.

They have updated the companion web site with lecture slides, video recordings, and other supplementary teaching material to match the second edition:

http://fundamentals-of-bpm.org/

the first annual Business Rules Excellence Awards

Do you have an interesting Business Rules Use Case?  Submit it for the opportunity to win a highly prestigious award and publication in the next book on BR to be published within 12 months following the Awards Ceremony.

The Business Rules Excellence Awards are the ideal way to be recognized by the BR industry worldwide, to publicly acknowledge and recognize the efforts of your team and to inject passion into your projects.

The Business Rules Excellence Awards are managed by Future Strategies Inc., who also present the prestigious annual WfMC Global Awards for Excellence in BPM, and the WfMC Global Awards for Excellence in Adaptive Case Management.

BR Excellence Awards (BREA) case study nominations will be judged on excellence demonstrated in the following areas which include:

·     Operational impact such as substantial size, scope or quality of governance process or rule / decision management

·     Innovation such as use of business rules or decision approach or technology to solve business problems and improvement in business agility

·     Implementation such as successful initiatives to capture and express business rules, decision tables, terminology and concept models

And more...

See full details online at http://br-excellenceawards.org/BREA_Criteria.html