Business Process Management: Profiting From Process

Developing Project Strategy

This step determines the initial and high-level approach and timeframe to implement the renewed process.

Techniques

Developing project strategy is as much art as science. This creative step exploits a lot of the work done before you try any of these development techniques:

• Practices benchmarking
• Technology watch
• Negotiation
• Project management

Lessons Learned

The project strategy should examine at least two and preferably three alternative solutions or approaches, considering potential technology and organizational options. These can be variations on one solution or extensions into more risk and potential reward, involving quite different strategies. The “do-nothing” solution (keep things “as-is”) should always be assessed ...