Why always think technology when speaking about BPM ?

Since BPM is most desired proven descipline/methodology towards effective planning and optimizations these days...

1. Some people invented...experimented..made best practises available

2. Some people demostrated the benefits..

3. A lot more are only following the trends..

4. Some are still in the process of learninig it...

5. And some still do not know what BPM is..!!!!

Doubting why technology is discussed along with BPM is like asking always studing in class room and never goto work..or only talk about say SWOT analysis and do not implement it..Hmm

My friend Thomas here is seeing the vested interest of software providers..but what is he suggesting..that businesses should keep listening there theories in confrence rooms ever and never do business..keep learning what is farming and never use tools to actually farm things up???

Dick Lee is right, these two are diffrent things but can not be seen as diffrent ..

My friend Steve..Are u suggesting that those case studies would have been possible without application of principles??? Is it that just by buying book "What si BPM" or knowing "what it is" as said sensible will bring results???

My friend MAX is right ..just one line "BPM flowcharting is an agility killer. " can u put more light on this thought???

Why always think technology when speaking about BPM ?

A lot of people do not know what they are doing..they only do it because others are doing it..or they have heard about it as best practise..Well said "Common Sense"...

I think one needs to really make the divide clear..see the software need evolution cycle as following..

When we were child, businesses only needed Book Keeping...
When we grew young, some wise scientist invented IT and management principles ..Now somebody needs to impliment these principles...??? Right

When we grew even more older, we saw businesses growing and so is the need to manage business efectively...Scene 2 --> ERP arrived ...Businesses Simply cant do with child principle that if a guy can process 10 things It should take 100 guys to do 1000 things..

Requirements even grew more and still growing with time and so is the need to plan/manage effectively with most optimized resource utilizations...

No business mehtodlogy plan/organise/process management is of use if this is only theory..you need an executioner of plans..thus in this case is "technology".

What are u saying... A maths theory is of any use without its application via tools..???

BPM is like "Receipe Book" but is that of any use if you do not actually cook in kitchen??? You need tools like Stove / lighter / utensils etc..

BPM is "Receipe Book" and "IT" is both executioner and tools..