Four years ago, not long after our wedding, my wife bought me this new shirt. I wore it once, received compliments and never wore it again. A few post-wedding parties and dinners meant I could never get into this colorful slim-fit shirt. Today it languishes in my wardrobe waiting the day I can get rid of my paunch and wear it again.

Through the health conscious cooking of my wife, I have prevented myself from bloating beyond recognition. What is missing is a good exercise regime to get me back into that shirt. Not just for the love of my wife and her cooking, that shirt remains hanging there as a reminder of better physical days. I do aspire to reach there someday.

Over this period, I have continued to purchase new shirts demanded either by wear and tear, fashion or occasion. These shirts have always matched the size I am at the point of purchase (obviously bigger). Every time I purchase a new shirt I remind myself that I need to lose those inches, but still end up buying a new one to maintain myself with a presentable wardrobe.

It's always a battle between a "bigger shirt" or a "better diet".

So, how does my wardrobe-waistline story have anything to do with BPM? Well, I believe every organization faces such a conundrum when it comes to its BPM program

Slim-Fit Shirt

This is the stage when every business is at its peak. All resources are optimum and profit margins look heading northwards.

The Paunch

An organic growth occurs and before it realizes, the resources have increased and the northward profit margins have now changed directions.

New (Bigger) Shirts

Demands of the business environment and ambition mandates further investment and expenses to ensure expansion and growth. Adaptive? Innovative? Perhaps both.

The Slimming Effort

This is where the BPMS makes its entrance. In an effort to get back to shape, the business begins to start automating its activities, streamlining them where pragmatic and not necessarily optimum. Much like my diet control.

Back to Slim-Fit

This is where the BPM struggle lies. My struggle with exercising is similar to a business deploying BPM as a discipline. Just as I need to find that commitment and effort to get on that treadmill and sweat it out, businesses need to find itself committed and make that effort. It's not easy, but, it's not impossible either.

I shall continue to enjoy my wife's awesome cooking in acceptable quantities but, first, let me try to convince myself to jog away the dust that collects on my treadmill and the fat that accumulates around my waist.

By Sanooj Kutty
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