Books for people interested in business process management (BPM)

Nearly 3 years have passed since my last post about BPM books plus I had a chance to notice few more interesting ones while writing a book about BPM myself 😉  So, I wanted to share with you updated and extended list of books which I would recommend to anyone interested in business process management.

Books about BPM in general

Business Architecture: Collecting, Connecting, and Correcting the Dots (by Roger Burlton)

Business Process Change: A Business Process Management Guide for Managers and Process Professionals 4th Edition (by Paul Harmon)

Business Process Management Cases Vol. 2: Digital Transformation – Strategy, Processes and Execution (by Jan vom Brocke, Jan Mendling, and Michael Rosemann)

Business Process Management: Profiting From Process (by Roger Burlton)

Elements (by Roger Tregear)

Faster Cheaper Better: The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done (by Michael Hammer and Lisa Hershman)

Fundamentals of Business Process Management (by Marlon Dumas, Marcello La Rosa, Jan Mendling, and Hajo A. Reijers)

Handbook on Business Process Management 1. Introduction, Methods, and Information Systems and Handbook on Business Process Management 2. Strategic Alignment, Governance, People and Culture (by Jan vom Brocke and Michael Rosemann)

Holistic Business Process Management: Successful with BPMN 2.0 and OCEB 2 Fundamental (by Serge Schiltz)

OCEB 2 Certification Guide: Business Process Management – Fundamental Level (by Tim Weilkiens, Christian Weiss, Andrea Grass, and Kim Nena Duggen)

Process Precepts: Conversations about the process of management (by Roger Tregear)

Reimagining Management: Putting process at the center of business management (by Roger Tregear)

White Space Revisited: Creating Value through Process (by Geary Rummler, Alan Ramias, and Richard Rummler)

 

Books about process modeling
BPMN Quick and Easy Using Method and Style: Process Mapping Guidelines and Examples Using the Business Process Modeling Standard (by Bruce Silver)

Real-Life BPMN (4th edition): Includes an introduction to DMN (by Jakob Freund and Bernd Rücker)

Workflow Modeling. Tools for Process Improvement and Applications Development (by Alec Sharp and Patrick McDermott)

plus additionally DMN Method and Style: 3rd edition, with DMN Cookbook (by Bruce Silver)

 

Books about change management
While those books do not cover process management directly, they can be very useful source of inspiration, interesting techniques and great stories you can use in your BPM initiatives.

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (by Chip and Dan Heath)

Smarter Faster Better: The Transformative Power of Real Productivity (by Charles Duhigg)

Do you have any more recommendations? Let me know in comments!

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