Good point you got here. I completely agree with you. The acronym BIS and succession of letters was not meant to show succesion in terms of importance. I always believe senior management support is the most important factor and it is where process initiatives like this should start. I think that it’s normal to think that since I used the acronym BIS, it implies Business model integration first then senior management support later, it does create some confusion. I will make changes in my article tonight to reverse the acronym to SIB as you pointed out– otherwise as you said, BIS might turn to abyss. Thanks for your suggestion.

Saludos!
Glenn

I get that, you did not mean the succession of letters to indicate level of importance. Still I argue senior management’s initiative and involvement may matter less compared to the overwhelming drive of the business (corporate population) to improve, integrate and move to next level of multiple level operations fusion. There are other factors that will necessitate the leap to Process Culture, among which is the mentality and corporate behavior of the corporate body. In so much as the would be gods, demigods, or what have you of the corporation can dictate process culture the need for development prompted by logistic or operational impediments along with the realization of lesser tier corporate multitudes of this need will bring about the realization of Process Culture.

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Thanks for your comments Rye. I still believe that Senior management involvement is the most important of the three factors that I mentioned. Executive sponsonship will achieve the following– champion the project culture initiative, ensure support from all stakeholders, fund projects, rally employees to embrace process culture and accept accountability to changes.

Saludos!

I knew that you´ve been missing my comments a lot, so here it is.

P.S. I´m a little bit short on alcohol so I´ll just try to tap the left hemisphere of my brain the best I could, ok.

Oh btw, I love the pictures of Ivy, they add spark and color to your page — like how she adds up spark and color to your life. Que cursi!

About the Article:

From BIS to Abyss

While it is true that Business Integration, Innovation, and Senior management support are the main ingredients to a successful concoction of a process maturity, I must say that the level of importance must be in a reverse order (i.e. SIB). This is simply because, whatever innovation you try to integrate into a bussiness world model, without the adequate universal senior management support, would be casted into the Abyss. Remember the Padawan case study?

Again, the tipping-point of a process maturity depends highly on management support. The process of evolution –meaning evolving a simple process to a comprehensive process and putting it in mainstream (like evolving from lower specie to higher specie or like evolving from amoeba to man or those crazy evolution theories) could and can only happen with the able permission of the ONE. The ONE, yes the one who racks the cradle. Whether we talk of universal life or the coporate world, there exist unseen by most, a force of greater power who could allow or disallow the change, the evolution, and that so-called process maturity to happen. Lest, BIS will turn into Abyss (abyss as described in Revelation 20:1-3 as the place where the future casting of Satan for a thousand years will occur, i.e. the bottom-less pit) if the support of the corporate god is not sought. Hence, thy will be done …