TY - BOOK AU - Smith,Howard AU - Fingar,Peter TI - Business process management: the third wave SN - 0929652347 PY - 2007/// CY - Tampa, Fla. PB - Meghan-Kiffer KW - Business enterprises KW - Data processing KW - Reengineering (Management) N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The next fifty years - A walk over the hill - Enterprise business processes - Business process management - Reengineering reengineering - Business process outsourcing - Management theory, R.O.I. and beyond - Implementing business process management - Tomorrow's interview in BPM3.0 Magazine - The language of process - Business process management systems - The theoretical foundations of the third wave - Lessons learned from early adopters - The new MBA curriculum N2 - The authors persuade managers that they need business process management to upgrade their businesses. This book is a good introduction to business process management, its theory, practice, and language ER -