Adaptive Process Automation: Marrying Process Efficiency to Enterprise Architecture Flexibility

by Borys Stokalski

The days of the Internet bubble emphasized growth and innovation as central business imperatives. In recent years, companies have placed primacy on cost cutting and bottom-line expectations. Today, many of the organizations that survived the economic downturn strive to achieve growth and simultaneously to continue the pressure for efficiency and cost awareness. As fewer companies can be effectively merged or acquired, the most desirable growth scenarios are those based on innovative market approaches, products, and services. A key enabler of innovation is organizational flexibility: the capability to change business policies and processes quickly to accommodate new products or services. So the question is, how can competitive levels of efficiency and flexibility be achieved simultaneously?

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Adaptive Process Automation: Marrying Process Efficiency to Enterprise Architecture Flexibility July 2005