Author name: Forrest Breyfogle

The enhanced business performance management topics described in more than 50 free articles, videos, and recorded webinars, provide direction, among other things, on how to improve organizational key performance indicators (KPIs) metrics. Included also from this Smarter Solutions’ resource center library, where the business performance management articles reside, is a description of how to integrate these enhanced business […]

Obviously, making money is important to businesses; however, primary focus for increased profitability is often given to cutting costs. Initially benefits can be achieved with a cost-savings strategy, but, after low-hanging-fruit is harvested, the benefits from this effort can be detrimental to the long-lasting health of the business. In contrast, organizations experience lasting benefits when

The Porter value chain is enhanced when predictive performance measures are included.  A business process management (BPM) system implementation, which uses an enhancement to Porter’s methodology, gains much when it incorporates a structured inclusion of predictive metrics that have a natural balance in its use of a value chain.  Porter Value Chain Benefits Michael Porter’s