PRESS INFORMATION

INTERNATIONAL START-UP COMPANY BPM-D MOVING TO UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY PARK IN CHESTER

Chester, Pa.—BPM-D and University Technology Park announced today that BPM-D, an international start-up company that helps businesses reach their full potential through business process management (BPM), will move to University Technology Park in Chester on May 1. BPM-D has a presence in the United States, the United Kingdom and India. Clients for BPM-D consulting, coaching and training offerings include large international organizations and mid-size companies primarily in the telecommunications/high tech, health/pharmaceuticals, financial and consumer goods industries. BPM-D has 21 team members, many of them former or current Widener University students. University Technology Park, which opened in 1999, is a partnership between Widener University and Crozer-Keystone Health System to spur economic development in the city of Chester. The goal of the partnership is the creation of a knowledge-based economy in the region. Current tenants at University Technology Park include the Riverfront Alliance of Delaware County, the Widener University Small Business Development Center and the Crozer-Keystone Health System Patient Services Center and Human Resources Department. “We feel honored to have the opportunity to move into the University Technology Park. This will help us to work even closer with Widener University, offering jobs, internships and co-ops to Widener students,” said Dr. Mathias Kirchmer, managing director and co-CEO of BPM-D. “As part of our business development plans, we also want to help Chester and local businesses to move to the next level by enabling them to be faster, cheaper, more agile and more innovative through our effective and sustainable approach to process management, based on the patent–pending BPM-D Framework.” Kirchmer, has been an adjunct professor in the Widener University School for Business Administration for more than 10 years, and has been member of the School of Business Administration Advisory Board since its inception. He has worked for more than 20 years in the BPM field, including positions as CEO of IDS Scheer Americas and managing director for BPM at Accenture. “We welcome BPM-D to University Technology Park,” said Widener President James T. Harris III. “Their presence adjacent to the university will provide more opportunities for collaboration with Widener faculty and experiential learning opportunities for our students.” “We’re glad that BPM-D has chosen to relocate to University Technology Park, continuing the growth and evolution of our UTP initiative. We wish them great success,” says Patrick Gavin, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Crozer-Keystone Health System.

   

 

About BPM-D BPM-D™ is an innovative and reliable business partner that enables organizations to deliver the full potential from the Business Process Management-Discipline (BPM-Discipline™). The business was established based on the years of experience of its co-founders in delivering components of this vision: strategy; governance; process improvement; modeling and repositories; and change enablement to organizations, both large and small.

All BPM-D™ offerings are based on the patent pending BPM-D™ Framework that provides a comprehensive vision of the components of this important discipline in an organization. The offerings support a focused and dynamic approach to process management and improvement. This is pragmatic and outcome-based, linking to business strategy and working to translate this into execution, faster and more reliably.

BPM-D™ also supports organizations to select and manage other consulting partners, especially for larger process-led transformations. We help define and balance the roles of the internal BPM-Discipline™ and the externally acquired services to ensure that programs deliver immediate improvement and a sustainable ability to realize the value form change.

For small and medium sized software and consulting companies we leverage our years of industry experience to assist in defining and executing growth and internationalization plans. We provide support in all areas of the BPM-Discipline™ critical to the success of our clients.

Contact

Dr. Mathias Kirchmer, Managing Director and Co-CEO mathias.kirchmer@bpm-d.com