US Court Outlaws Business Process Patents "A US court has declared that ‘business methods’ cannot be patented, overturning a landmark 1998 ruling that allowed abstract processes to be subject to copy protection. .."

Business Transformation Failures: 9 Success Tips by Michael Krigsman at ZDnet.com.  "One fifth of businesses do not measure change management performance "... more

FEMA selects agency-wide BPM platform (press release) at MarketWatch.com.  "FEMA's goal is to streamline, automate, and improve its mission-critical disaster relief processes."

"BPM Case Study Competition" sponsored by BP Trends and OMG features awards in three categories - Best Overall BPM Application, Best BPM Application using BPM Standards, and BPM Application that has Best ROI

Most Organizations Lack All the Skills Needed to Implement and Optimize Their Business Processes  "Successful BPM requires an agile iterative approach to process change. Gartner has identified 11 steps that will help determine whether organizations should source BPM skills internally or externally" at Webwire.com

BPM Without Busting the Budget
"Business Process Management requires BPM tools, right?  Not always." by Bill Snyder at CIO.com

Benefits of Virtual Business Processes "Process virtualization is strategic..." at ITWorld.com- just what we need now, a new TLA - Business Process Virtualization or BPV... it sounds cool, but what exactly does it mean?

State of the BPM Market 2008 a summary of 100+ articles and surveys compiled by Oracle.  "BPM has seen rapid growth because it succeeds where earlier approaches have failed"... Requires registration at TechWorld

BPM the Video Game a class at San Francisco State University introduces students to business process management via video games at the Wall Street Journal'as Business Technology blog.

INNOV8 - A Business Simulator an interactive, 3-D business simulator designed to teach the fundamentals of business process management and bridge the gap in understanding between business leaders and IT teams in an organization by IBM

IBM's Management Games - No fooling around: Big Blue is promoting a video game that could change the way companies develop leaders and manage projects at BusinessWeek.com

"How to Remain Competitive: Build, Buy or BPM"  by Jo Hoppe at eWeek.com

"How to Choose the Right BPM Suite: From RFP to Final Selection" by Andrew Spanyi at Intelligent Enterprise.com

Want to learn BPMN?  Start here. Check out this online, animated BPMN Tutorial

Who is using BPMN and how? Read this BPMN Research Paper by Jan Recker, Queensland Univerity of Technology

The BPM Pyramid: People, Processes and Technology by Trish Emser at BPMEnterprise.com "...BPM must be viewed not as a project, but instead as the way of working in a business environment."