The application wheel and technology wheel can be used to evaluate any organization’s BPM status (“BPM checkup”). The following picture shows both views for a fictitious company.

BPM Application und Technology Wheel

The existing applications and technologies used in the organization are colored dark blue. In terms of the application view, there are issues with metrics in the example: so far, BPM has only been used on a project basis, restricted to technical experts, and deployed for well-structured processes.

There is no blue in the inner circle, which relates to advanced application of BPM. The technology view reveals the dominance of traditional database technology and use of a business process platform in the enterprise software segment.

Here again, there is no blue coloring in the inner circle, indicating that the enterprise urgently needs to adopt a more sophisticated BPM strategy. The blank wheels in the following picture can be filled in to check the BPM status of your own organization.

BPM Application and Technology Wheel