Measures of process harmonization

Measures of process harmonization

Context: Many large organizations juggle an application portfolio that contains different applications that fulfill similar tasks in the organization. In an effort to reduce operating costs, they are attempting to consolidate such applications. Before consolidating applications, the work that is done with these applications must be harmonized. This is also known as process harmonization. Object...

The development of measures of process harmonization

Recent years have witnessed a marked increase in interest by researchers and practitioners in the concept of process harmonization. However, they fail to present performance measures to evaluate the extent of process harmonization achieved after implementing harmonization initiatives. At a process level, measures provide information to control and manage processes in order to improve them. Give...

Maximizing your Process Improvement ROI through Harmonization

executive overview of the business value in harmonizing process improvement efforts when multiple improvement technologies, models and standards are in use. It proceeds with an overview of a harmonization approach that reaches from strategy to tactics and connects enterprise and discipline specific improvement. Use of any trademarks in this report is not intended in any way to infringe on the r...

Advancing the application, quality and harmonization of implementation science measures

BACKGROUND The field of implementation science (IS) encompasses a broad range of constructs and uses measures from a variety of disciplines. However, there has been little standardization of measures or agreement on definitions of constructs across different studies, fields, authors, or research groups. METHODS We describe a collaborative, web-based activity using the United States National C...

A literature review in process harmonization: a conceptual framework