Top 10 iBPM Books

This Top 10 list has been inspired by Joel at the Kaizone, a  content portal for lean books, blog posts and some fantastic resources. To take a look at his full list of the top 100 lean & OpEx blogs, click here.

For a selection of case studies, White Papers, reports, presentations & more, why not take a look at our original BTOES Insights content, or our excellent premium contributor content? Or for some wider reading, take a look at the Top 10 Operational Excellence Books.

The Ultimate Guide to Business Process Management: Everything you need to know and how to apply it to your organization

By Theodore Panagacos

"In this step by step guide, former Management Consultant and change management expert Theodore Panagacos walks you through the entire discipline of Business Process Management. Learn how to fast track your orgnaization's strategy to govern processes, create a process culture, and measure business performance. Best of all, this crystal-clear, convenient sized book can be put to work in your organization immediately!"

Business Process Management: Practical Guidelines to Successful Implementations

By John Jeston

"This book examines real-world implementations of service automation technologies using Robotic Process Automation and Cognitive Automation tools. This newest, detailed research finds that RPA adoptions are accelerating, maturing, and scaling in global enterprise. The research covers multiple industries, applications, and shared services, and uses case studies to establish action principles and how to mitigate automation risks. The book also examines the first enterprise-worthy cognitive automation tools that use machine-learning algorithms to process big data, often in natural language form, and analyses three major detailed cases and the conditions for effective implementation."

Business Process Management: The Next Wave

By Jim Sinur, James J. Odell, Peter Fingar & Thomas H. Davenport

"Technology marches on, bringing new dangers and new opportunities. As cloud computing, social, mobile, big data, predictive analytics and the Internet of Things are baked into more and more business processes, they will rapidly reshape how business gets done, today and tomorrow. This book provides a starting point that will help you know what is coming, and how to think about addressing it."

Value-Driven Business Process Management: The Value-Switch for Lasting Competitive Advantage

By Peter Franz & Mathias Kirchmer

"This book was written by a team of BPM experts and provides key ingredients you need to achieve the highest levels of differentiation and performance. With this book, you have a full-suite guide to achieving immediate business benefits while building lasting BPM capabilities and so much more."

Successful Business Process Management: What You Need to Know to Get Results

By Paula Berman

"It can be difficult to find training on process improvement and the range of complicated tools available could make even the most experiences professional’s head spin. This book fills that gap, providing accessible overview of the field with step by step instructions on how to design key processes, embed them in the organization and take a systematic approach to BPM."

Fundamentals of Business Process Management

By Marlon Dumas, Marcello La Rosa, Jan Mendling & Hajo A. Reijers
Level: Essential Reading

"Business Process Management is the art and science of how work should be performed in an organization in order to ensure consistent outputs and to take advantage of improvement opportunities. This textbook encompasses the entire BPM lifecycle from concepts, methods and tools to providing dozens of examples and more than 100 hands-on exercises."

Strategy and Business Process Management: Techniques for Improving Execution, Adaptability, and Consistency

By Carl F. Lehmann

"Readers will learn specific techniques used by industry leaders t formulate and execute business strategy that adapts organizational behavior, business processes, and information technology as a dynamic system designed to assure consistent performance and achievement"

The Business Process Management Guidebook: An Integrated Enterprise Excellence BPM System

By Forrest W. Breyfogle III

"The number one book to take executives and process owners from inefficiencies and waste within an organization to effective, day-to-day process execution that creates big-picture benefits. This guidebook can help organizations determine where process automation and improvement efforts should focus through an integration of Enterprise Process Management (EPM) and BPM"