Centre for Excellence in Business Process Management

The Vlerick Business Process Management Network is a network organisation between the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School and the business community represented by companies with complementary experiences in the world of Business Process Management (BPM). The research centre is created to offer high-level and up-to-date information on BPM (methodologies, benchmark results, best practices, lessons learned, used tools,...), and to develop, detect, validate and diffuse new management concepts and theories in the field of Business Process Management in a Belgian and European context.

The Vlerick Business Process Management Network is a collaboration of partners with complementary experiences in the world of Business Process Management (BPM). The knowledge and expertise from the partners is combined, thereby covering all branches of industries, services and governmental organizations.

The BPM Network creates a unique platform to share ideas and learn from other businesses. You'll have the opportunity to meet other business people and hear their opinion on how BPM can optimize the way you operate your businesses.

By organizing seminars, training courses, BPM conferences and by creating a full content web-portal the BPMNetwork aims to materialize theoretical approaches in the most practical way by learning how others did it before you.

Business Process Orientation Assessment Tool:

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News

• Business Process Intelligence through three different lenses  (27 Mar 2009)

  Companies are not able to function without business processes. But are these processes being implemented as intended? How long does this implementation take in practice? Do processes differ between subsidiaries? Various methods exist for exploring Business Process Intelligence (BPI). Peter Rittgen, professor in Business Process Management has been collaborating with Flanders DC in scientifically investigating BPI and the best ways of exposing business processes.

• The relation between Organisational Change and BPO  (25 Mar 2009)

  The higher the BPO score of a company the more employees experience and thus perceive change in their daily job. It requires more than a minimum of change efforts in an organisation in order to become gradually more process oriented.

• New! Executive Master Class in Business process management  (22 Oct 2008)

  In a changing and ever challenging business environment, it is crucial to manage the business processes to excel competition. Business Process Management (BPM) delivers the crucial business glue that synchronises planning, designing, building, operating, maintaining, monitoring and improving the capabilities of the enterprise. BPM is unique in its ability to tame the relentless competitive, service and cost pressures in all organisations, enabling enterprises to continue to adapt (faster and faster) while enhancing quality and reducing costs.

• 4th BPI Conference was a success!  (17 Oct 2008)

  The fourth edition of Vlerick’s Business Process Innovation conference on 16 October turned out to be a huge success. With over 250 executives attending this conference, a large and diverse community of managers and decision makers gathered in Brussels. In total more than 25 presentations - spread over five parallel tracks - provided the participants the possibility to customise their conference experience and to get new insights, enlightening ideas and useful frameworks.

• Vlerick among limited amount of schools offering Specialised BPM Courses  (10 Jan 2008)

  BPTrends column, Michael zur Muehlen - A Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing: Building Business Process Management Skills.