BP Trends Article Process Governance

BP Trends Article Process Governance

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Like so many popular business process terms, "Process Governance" means very different things to different people. Many people don't even discriminate between governance and management, but there are significant differences between the two. Governance is the organization of management. It refers to the goals, principles, organization charts that define who can make what decisions, as well as the policies and rules that define or constrain what managers can do. Management, on the other hand, is a human activity.

Managers respond to daily circumstances by taking actions. In other words, process governance is concerned with the formal organization of process management while process management is concerned with the day to day activities involved in seeing that work actually gets done. When business people debate process governance, they discuss how they should organize the management of their processes. When they discuss process management, they consider how well managers are doing their jobs.

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