An interesting post on Rambling Thoughts about enabling the agile enterprise, particularly the benefits:
Through improved, more accurate, and timely reporting mechanisms an agile enterprise will be able to perceive the potential impact of events quicker. Alternate strategies can be rapidly assessed as relevant data will be more easily accessed. Agile enterprises can then react by implementing the required operational processes and IT systems with equal speed and ease. This will allow the results to be realized sooner and with less reduction in enterprise performance.
However, I disagree with his statement that “In contrast to pure workflow tools, that simply model existing business processes, BPM tools provide an execution environment for these workflows.” We’ve been executing business processes for many years with “workflow” tools; maybe he’s thinking of business modelling tools? He exhibits a bit of confusion about the definitions of workflow, BPM and EAI, but then considering the state of the marketplace, that’s not unusual.