This is a 5-part podcast series with Nintex thought leaders and solutions partners. The series will walk through the lifecycle of employing business process management (BPM) and business process automation (BPA) with the organization.

The 5 episodes in this series include:
- DEFINITION
- CONSTRUCTION
- EXECUTION
- AUTOMATION
- ORCHESTRATION
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Guests:
- Jesse McHargue, Technical Evangelist at Nintex
- Nicole (Prestby) Vesser, Sr. Solutions Manager at Abel Solutions
- Rhia Wieclawek, Director, Business Process Automation, Elantis Solutions Inc.
- Matt Spears, Principal Consultant at Nintex

In this first episode, the group discusses the importance of properly investing in the definition phase before beginning to implement a business process, thereby ensuring the right business tasks and functions are being selected and tuned before they become targets for automation and orchestration.

Here’s a sampling of what was discussed:
- What exactly is a business workflow—are there different definitions?
- Who should care about having formal business processes and workflows?
- Why do you need to proactively plan for and define them?
- Should the goal be to automate away a pain point? Or are there other value propositions for defining a good process to begin with?

The future is coming and your business will need to keep up with the changes. There’s no better time to start on your journey to orchestrating the business of the future. That doesn’t mean you should skip any steps to get there. In fact, taking the time now to evaluate what’s important could be the best process activity you could engage in at the moment to be prepared for the future.

Have a listen to this episode and then join us for the rest. You can listen to the full podcast series here: https://www.itspmagazine.com/their-stories/business-process-management-lifecycle-podcast-series-orchestrating-the-business-of-the-future-today-a-their-story-conversation-with-nintex

And, be sure to visit Nintex at https://itspm.ag/itspntweb to learn more about their offering.

Enjoy!