In the business world’s race for companies to perform faster, better and cheaper, Business Process Management (BPM) and Workflow have been launched as the ‘Holy Grail’ to success.
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Many of the BPM vendors are developing templates and frameworks (best practices) covering traditional industry verticals such as finance, manufacturing, telecoms, and government sectors. The maritime and offshore industries are faced with the same fierce competition as the rest of the business world, and must also continually improve performance.
DNV Software has together with key clients responded to the need for more transparency and agility in the overall design process. Brix™ aims at addressing this challenge by giving you the means to improve your engineering performance by integrating process support and state-of-the-art services within the same portal. Using business process templates to describe engineering work is how DNV Software offers a way to capture, preserve and spread knowledge, facilitating a learning and acting global organisation. This article provides an extract from a paper published in the Workflow Handbook 2006. The Workflow Handbook is published by the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC), a renowned standardisation organisation working to standardise and institutionalise workflow solutions in the industry. The article describes a strategic development project carried out by DNV Software in collaboration with Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Ltd. (DSME), one of the world’s major shipyard
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