Recommended BPM Books

The most common question I get as I travel around the world is "What books do you recommend?" So as I started to put together this blog I thought that perhaps this was the place to start providing such a list. On the right hand column you will see that I have started out by listing BPM/Process books, all the books on this list are those that have been reviewed by, contributed to or authored by me. I did not think that the world simply wants another cut and paste from a directory. For convenience I include the initial list below.

Recomended BPM Books

• "BPM - The Third Wave" - Fingar, Smith
  
• "BPM is a Team Sport Play to Win" - Andrew Spanyi
  
• "Business Process Change: A Manager's Guide to Improving, Redesigning, and Automating Processes" - Paul Harmon
  
• "Business Process Management: A Practical Guide" - Rashid Khan
  
• "Business Process Management: Practical Guidelines to Successful Implementations" - Jeston, Nellis
  
• "Business Process Management: Profiting From Process" - Roger Burlton
  
• "Detail Process Charting: Speaking the Language of Process" - Ben Graham
  
• "Extreme Competition" - Peter Fingar
  
• "Human Interactions: The Heart And Soul Of Business Process Management: How People Reallly Work And How They Can Be Helped To Work Better" - Keith Harrison-Broninski
  
• "Improving Performance: How to Manage the White Space in the Organization Chart" - Rummler, Brache
  
• "In Search of BPM Excellence" - Mark McGregor, Steve Towers et al
  
• "Mastering Your Organization's Processes: A Plain Guide to BPM" - Jon Pyke, John O'Connell
  
• "More for Less" - Andrew Spanyi
  
• "Process Mapping, Process Improvement and Process Management" - Dan Madison
  
• "The Real Time Enterprise" - Peter Fingar
  
• "Thrive - How to Succeed in The Age of The Customer" - Mark McGregor, Steve Towers
  

Check back soon for the inside track on the companies I have been reading about and the books on these.

Finally I will add a list on some of the psychology/NLP aspects of business that interest me in my research into why some organizations work and others just don't get it!

Oh, and before anyone asks me do I really recommend all these books, the answer to that one is very simple – Read as widely as you can, make up your own mind and then plough your own furrow – there is no fun in just simply following the herd :-)