To help you decide if you should consider adding it to your BPM toolbox, I invited Clay Richardson from Forrester Research for an interview.

Clay shares many great insights on topics like Customer Journey Mapping and aligning it with BPM, Lean Startup Techniques, Low-Code Application Development and much more.

Interview

Quotes

“Competitive advantage is no longer driven by automation and efficiency. It is now driven by customer engagement.”

“Companies that obsess about delivering great customer experiences create obsessed customers.”

“BPM’s role is to drive better experiences, greater convenience, ease of interaction.”

“[Customer journey] is the glue that ties experiences that customer has with operational processes.”

“Every part of the company has a role to play in customer experience.”

“For BPM teams the most important part is to connect the different states of the journey with the underlying processes.”

“How to convince people to use lean startup techniques? I would give them three names: Borders, Uber, Airbnb.”

“Today, we are fooling ourselves if we think we know what the customer wants.”

“You want to make sure you are building products and services that customer want, not just building to build.”

“BPM is in a major transition. This does not mean we jettison everything we have learned about BPM over the last ten years. It means we need to augment and expand our process toolkits.”

“The main technique I recommend to BPM teams is to focus around defining the customer lifecycle and customer journey.”

“In BPM we are notorious for using vanity metrics.”

Resources mentioned in this episode

“Can Customer Experience Management Technology Help You Govern CX?” TJ Keitt, Clay Richardson
https://forrester.com/Can+Customer+Experience+Management+Technology+Help+You+Govern+CX/fulltext/-/E-res122556#AST1019678

“Design For Disruption: Take An Outside-In Approach To BPM. Embrace Design Thinking To Drive Customer-Centric BPM Initiatives” Clay Richardson
https://www.forrester.com/Design+For+Disruption+Take+An+OutsideIn+Approach+To+BPM/fulltext/-/E-res91465

“Architect For Extreme Uncertainty. Use Systemic Design To Deal With The Unknown Unknowns” Clay Richardson, Brian Hopkins
https://www.forrester.com/Architect+For+Extreme+Uncertainty/fulltext/-/E-res103461#AST970419

“Organizing Your Digital Future. What Type Of Organization Do You Need To Become A Digital Predator?” Nigel Fenwick
https://www.forrester.com/Organizing+Your+Digital+Future/fulltext/-/E-res124281

“Lean Startup” Eric Ries
http://theleanstartup.com/book

“The Four Steps to the Epiphany” Steve Blank
http://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steve-Blank-ebook/dp/B00FLZKNUQ/

Forrester website
https://www.forrester.com

“The Business Process Management Playbook”
https://www.forrester.com/The+Business+Process+Management+Playbook/-/E-PLA260

“Disrupt Processes To Build Your Customer-Obsessed Business Model”
http://blogs.forrester.com/clay_richardson/15-06-29-disrupt_processes_to_build_your_customer_obsessed_operating_model

“Vendor Landscape: The Fractured, Fertile Terrain Of Low-Code Application Platforms”, Clay Richardson, John R. Rymer
https://www.forrester.com/Vendor+Landscape+The+Fractured+Fertile+Terrain+Of+LowCode+Application+Platforms/fulltext/-/E-res122549

“The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies” Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee
http://www.amazon.com/Second-Machine-Age-Prosperity-Technologies-ebook/dp/B00D97HPQI/

“Mindset: How You Can Fulfil Your Potential” Carol Dweck
http://www.amazon.com/Mindset-How-Fulfil-Your-Potential-ebook/dp/B005RZB65Q/

Clay Richardson’s research on Forrester website
https://www.forrester.com/Clay-Richardson

About Clay Richardson

Clay Richardson is a Principal Analyst at Forrester Research.
He is a recognized thought leader with 20 years of experience in entrepreneurship, continuous improvement, business design, disruptive innovation, tech market research and analysis, and public speaking.

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