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Greentree BPM & mobility experience
What makes a successful business?
BPM - what's all the fuss about?
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Customer Newsletter - October 2009

Welcome to the latest edition of "Better Business Together". In this issue we are pleased to announce that Greentree is presenting a BPM & Mobility Roadshow in Brisbane next month. We also get some ideas about what makes a successful business from HLB Mann Judd. Plus we find out what the fuss is about with BPM!

Kind regards,
Joanne

Greentree BPM & Mobility Experience

The Greentree BPM and Mobility ‘Experience’ will tour all major cities across Australasia with both current and potential new customers all welcome to attend.

The events will commence in Brisbane on November 9th. Attendees will get the chance to grab some special offers at the events, including free mobile software licenses and consulting time, along with major discount on Business Process Management software.

The BPM and Mobility sessions will focus on how these must have tools can solve business pain and deliver transforming performance vitamins. The morning only events will also feature dynamic sessions on the future of Greentree and CBA. Greentree is proud to be working with Jade, IBM and Motorola on this and other solution initiatives.


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What makes a successful business?

Some might say it’s the ‘million dollar’ question. Know the answer and the path to riches will be assured. Like most things the answer is simple, the implementation is the stumbling block.

Profitable sustainable businesses all have six core characteristics. Irrespective of whether the business is large or small, these characteristics all contribute to its success. An average business will have some of them but an exceptional business will have them all.

The characteristics can be loosely identified as:

Purpose    Planning    Product    People    Plant    Process

Each one of these characteristics impacts on all the others and interacts with them all.

Read full article>>

by Janelle Manders, Director - HLB Mann Judd


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BPM - what's all the fuss about?

Greentree chief executive Peter Dickinson talks about how business process management can be a key tool in driving exceptional company performance – and the top ten BPM realities.

"The market’s expectation of what constitutes good delivery of just about anything has risen exponentially."

What’s the problem?

Let’s try and cut through all the mumbo jumbo of BPM. Historically, it has been seen as the preserve of large companies and high-cost business consultants, who were adept at putting your business into a strait-jacket. But, with some of the tools available today, it is one of the key tools in driving exceptional business performance and increasing business returns.

Before looking at the world of automated BPM systems, and all the clever technology, we need to understand what the real world problem we are trying to solve is. What’s wrong with the world of a few good people, with maybe a bit of basic documentation about what to do and when? It’s the real world most of us have worked in; everyone’s got a brain, and the world hasn’t collapsed. But we need to do a modern-day reality check.

Read full iStart article>>

by Peter Dickinson, CEO - Greentree International


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We hope you enjoyed this edition of "Better Business Together", we'll be back soon with more blueStar and Greentree news.

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