Work In Process (a bpmd podcast)

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Work In Process is the podcast for leaders who are responsible for improving how their organisation actually works. If you lead process, transformation, IT, enterprise architecture, data or operations, and you are accountable for turning strategy into execution, this podcast is for you. Hosted by Liam O'Neill and Sam Lewis of bpmd, each episode cuts through the noise to focus on what it really takes to turn investment in tools, teams and programmes into bottom line results. We talk to practitioners, leaders and specialists who are doing this work for real. No theory for the sake of it. Just honest conversations about building structured, data led and outcome focused approaches to change. Follow the show so you do not miss a new episode.

Episodes

  1. If Your Governance Is Weak, AI Will Accelerate the Confusion with Hana Prooij

    2D AGO

    If Your Governance Is Weak, AI Will Accelerate the Confusion with Hana Prooij

    In this episode, Sam Lewis speaks with Hana Prooij, Business Process Management and Transformation Leader, formerly Head of Business Management Systems at Versuni, the global home appliances business behind some of the world's most recognised consumer brands. Hana spent over four years at Versuni, leading the design and implementation of the business management system through one of the most demanding periods the organisation faced, a full carve-out from a major multinational group, combined with an end-to-end S/4HANA deployment. Before that, she built her expertise across medical devices and consumer goods at Philips, working at the intersection of quality, process and organisational change. This is a grounded and honest conversation about what it actually takes to build a process and quality management system that the business genuinely uses. They discuss: Why Hana did not set out to work in process management and how she ended up there through a consistent pull towards reducing friction between smart people who were misalignedWhat quality management actually means in a large organisation and why it should never be a separate system from the way the business worksWhat it was like to build a management system from scratch during a carve-out, while simultaneously deploying a full S/4HANA stack and keeping the business running without interruptionWhy S/4HANA does not tolerate ambiguity and how that forces the process clarity most organisations have been avoidingHow governance becomes a stabilising force rather than a bureaucracy when it is designed well and owned at the right levelThe challenge of managing global standardisation against local variation across markets that have always done things their own wayWhy process improvement initiatives lose momentum and what it takes to keep them connected to the business rather than becoming a documentation exerciseWhy AI will not replace process thinking but will expose every organisation that has not got its governance and ownership rightIf you are responsible for process, quality, transformation or systems in a large organisation, this episode will resonate. Host: Sam Lewis, Director at bpmd  Guest: Hana Prooij, Business Process Management and Transformation Leader

    25 min
  2. Lessons From 70 Implementations: What We Know About Making Process Work

    FEB 23

    Lessons From 70 Implementations: What We Know About Making Process Work

    In this first episode of Working Process, Liam O'Neill and Sam Lewis introduce themselves and explain how bpmd evolved from a three-person startup operating out of a Surrey attic with a single client, into a specialist transformation partner working with global organisations including Sony and the BBC. This is a candid conversation about what it actually takes to make process and transformation work land as real business change, not just activity. They discuss: How bpmd found its identity after years of muddling through general project workWhy they moved away from preaching process toward asking better questionsWhat they call the process migration trap and why moving 2,000 models into a new tool rarely adds valueHow data analysis has become central to the work, and why accessibility is no longer the bottleneckThe reality of change fatigue in large organisations and how a multidisciplinary change maker function can fix itWhy adoption is consistently the harder problem, not the technologyHow they helped Lego's process team go from lacking purpose to being pivotal in one of the group's biggest ever internal transformationsWhere AI fits in, and why strong process context is becoming more critical, not lessThis is an honest and grounded conversation about what good transformation work actually looks like from the inside. If you lead process, transformation, IT, enterprise architecture, data or operations and you are accountable for turning strategy into execution, this episode is for you. Host: Liam O'Neill, Managing Director at bpmd Host: Sam Lewis, Director at bpmd

    35 min
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Work In Process is the podcast for leaders who are responsible for improving how their organisation actually works. If you lead process, transformation, IT, enterprise architecture, data or operations, and you are accountable for turning strategy into execution, this podcast is for you. Hosted by Liam O'Neill and Sam Lewis of bpmd, each episode cuts through the noise to focus on what it really takes to turn investment in tools, teams and programmes into bottom line results. We talk to practitioners, leaders and specialists who are doing this work for real. No theory for the sake of it. Just honest conversations about building structured, data led and outcome focused approaches to change. Follow the show so you do not miss a new episode.

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