BP Trends BPTrends (www.bptrends.com) is the primary source of business intelligence for business executives and process change practitioners around the globe.  Industry thought leaders provide analysis and opinion on trends, directions and best practices relating to all aspects of business process management.  BPTrends is the most comprehensive, in-depth business process management resource devoted to educating and informing the market.  The BPTrends BP Tools Reports are the most widely read reports on BP software tools available and our BPTrends Surveys are widely quoted.  With over 20,000 members, BPTrends is the largest community of BP Professionals in the world.  BPTrends also provides executive education, training, mentoring and consulting services.
	BPM Basics This site is targeted for people who are new to business process management and would like to get up to speed on the technology and associated terms and usage.
	BPM Enterprise e-Newsletter, lots of articles
	BPM Forum  The "other BPM", Performance Management site, e-newsletter
	BPM Institute Lots of content and services (membership required)
Electronic Government Research Center	Electronic Government Research Center www.egovconcepts.com
Business Process Management (BPM)    Business Process Management Tutorials, Products, Vendor Directory.	BPM Tutorial Short introductory overview of BPM and BPMS
	IABPM (International Association of Business Process Management) coordinates several legally independent European associations committed to promote Business Process Management (BPM) and to manages certification of professionals in BPM on the basis of common and internationally recognised standards in the BPM Common Body of Knowledge (BPM CBOK®) in their respective countries. IABPM is a strategic partner of ABPMP, pursues the same goals and cooperates on the base of an Affiliate Agreement. www.IABPM.org
	BPMI (Business Process Management Initiative) Consortium of BPM product and service vendors developing standards for BPM tools & technologies
	BPR Online Learning Center
	Business Management Magazine
	Business Process Management the Third Wave the book website, chapter summaries
	Gartner's BPM Topics Gartner is one of the leading Reasearch Analyst groups and has been producing research on BPM since 2000
	INFORMS The Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences.
	Intelligent Enterprise Magazine
	Process Renewal Group Consultancy site with several good downloadable papers
	WfMC - the WorkFlow Management Coalition  Standards group for workflow, lots of good content
	Workflow & BPM Research Professor Michael zur Muehlen's research website on workflow and BPM.  Lots of useful information, Visio BPMN stencils, more.

Articles

• The Time Has Come for Enterprise Business Process Management, by Mike Forster at Computerworld.com

   

• "Business Process Management Can Solve Compliance Issues and Reduce Costs 30-50% According to BearingPoint Report", story at Yahoo Financial News

   

• 2005: A Big Year for BPM by Terry Schurter at NewsFactor.com "The need to address related issues has focused executive leadership on BPM. Paralleling this interest has been a growing awareness within the I.T. community of BPM as a non-disruptive "command and control" system that spans the organization."
  

• CIO Process Power by Sue Bushell at CIO.com
  

• A Chasm Must Be Crossed By Howard Smith and Peter Fingar in Intelligent Enterprise magazine

  "How will your organization get from where it is now to where it needs to be: dynamic, agile, and moving in real time? The answer could be an emerging technology foundation that supports true business process management. " 
  

• Business-Process Management: Tools for Tough Times by Robert L. Scheier at  ComputerWorld.com
    "Business-process management (BPM) software can pay for itself within a year or two by linking expensive legacy applications to new, more streamlined workflows, customer say." 
  

• Bridging the IT Manager/Business Manager Divide, by Penny Lunt

• Read  'Pretenders from the Contenders' by Howard Smith and Peter Fingar's at darwin.com

• Read a book review: "What's The Big Idea?" - Reengineering Revisited by Tom Davenport at ComputerWorld.com

• Starting Over With BPM   Michael Hammer, August Scheer and analysts weigh in on the state of business process management. By Jim Ericson
  
• "The New Rules of the Third Wave" at BPM3.com, #35. Old rule: Processes take a long time to design. Disruption: Real-time process manufacturing. New rule: Just-in-time, single-purpose, throw-away processes are both possible and useful and reflect the way business is really done.
  
•   "On the Same Page"  by Chris Jensen, ABPMP Director in Intelligent Enterprise magazine online
  
• A Framework for Business Process Architecture - An Interview with Brett Champlin, President, ABPMP.org by Jon Huntress
  
• "BPM 101: An Introduction to Business Process Management"
  - by Chris Jensen, ABPMP Director  in Digital Publishing Solutions magazine, 8/2003

Read a controversial paper by Howard Smith and Peter Fingar with some key critical responses:

•   Workflow is Just a Pi Process By Howard Smith and Peter Fingar
•  "Does Better Math Lead to Better Business Processes?" by Jon Pyke and Roger Whitehead of WfMC
•  "Workflow, Process, Pi" at LooselyCoupled.com

BPM Blogs

• Bruce Silver's BPM Watch
  
• David Novick's BPM Unplugged
  
• Derek Meir's BPM Focus
  
• George Van Antwerp's Business of BPM
  
• Keith Swenson's Go Flow
  
• Kiran Garimella's BPM Blog
  
• Michael zur Muehlen's BPM Research
  
• Phil Gilbert's Perspectives in Process
  
• Rob Berg's BPM Insights
  
• Sandy Kemsley's Column 2
  
• Tom Davenport's The Next Big Thing
  
• Tom Debevoise
  
• Tyner Blain