USEFUL LINKS

Associations/Institutes
Organisations which are either directly or indirectly relevant to BPM are listed below. Direct relevance is when the organisation operates in or promotes the "realm" of BPM, and indirect relevance when it operates in another space, but when it has some expertise, techniques or tools useful to BPM.

• Value Chain Group (VCG)
• Supply Chain Council (SCC)
• American Productivity and Quality Centre (APQC)

Reference/Definitions
Links to all formally defined BPM standards, frameworks, refence models, techniques and methods are listed below.

• VCG BPTF/VRM - Value Chain Group (VCG) Business Process Transformation Framework (BPTF)/Value Reference Model (VRM)
• SCC SCOR - Supply Chain Council (SCC) Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model
• APQC PDF - American Productivity and Quality Centre (APQC) Process Classification Framework (PCF)
• IDEF - Integrated DEFinition Methods
• OMG/BPMI BPMN - Object Management Group (OMG)/Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI) Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)

Information/Resources
More informal resources and information links on the topic of BPM are listed below.

• BPM.com- Business Process Management articles, news, research & white papers
• BPMEnterprise.com - Business Process Management Resources
• Business Process Modeling Forum - Information resource dedicated to BPM technologies
• Process Wiki - Business process modeling, including standard business process models designed in BPMN
• BPTrends.com - Business Process Trends
• iSixSigma - Resources for achieving Six Sigma results