Ahead of PEX Week USA, the PEX Network surveyed over 600 process professionals to find out their top priorities for the year ahead. Linking process improvement with top level business strategy ranks as the number one priority for the second year running with 23.1% of process professionals citing it as their biggest challenge, according to research we’ve undertaken with the market. PEX Network’s latest research report looks in greater detail at this topic: • What are the challenges? • What are the opportunities? • And what can process professionals do to gain greater support for and traction for process improvement? Download the Free Report

1. The Drive to Performance Excellence
Ahead of PEX Week USA, the PEX Network surveyed over 600 process professionals to
find out their top priorities for the year ahead.
Linking process improvement with top level business strategy ranks as the number one priority for the second year running with 23.1% of process professionals citing it as their biggest challenge, according to research we’ve undertaken with the market.
PEX Network’s latest research report looks in greater detail at this topic:
 What are the challenges?
 What are the opportunities?
 And what can process professionals do to gain greater support for and traction for process improvement?
Download the Free Report
Key findings include:
 Linking process improvement with top level business strategy ranks as the number one priority for the second year running with 23.1% of process professionals citing it as their biggest challenge
 Many companies (nearly 50%) have identified process excellence one of the top priorities in the year ahead but a significant proportion of companies (32.2%) find it difficult to commit adequate resources and investment for process improvement
 A low level of commitment to process improvement (low priority) is associated with a predominant focus on targeted quick wins, while a high priority focus on process
improvement is most associated with improving processes across the enterprise
 Many names exist for process excellence approaches and methodologies and this “brand confusion” may contribute to a lack of general awareness of process improvement as a core capability within companies
 Investment in all categories of technology is up year on year, with “Big Data” and Analytics emerging as the number one investment area for the year ahead with 33.2% of professionals stating that it is a key investment area

2. Download the Free Report
The theme at PEX Week USA this year is “The Drive to Performance Excellence”, reflecting the move of the industry to ensure that process improvement is supporting and enabling business strategy and performance. Industry experts and practitioners will be sharing practical and hands on advice on linking process improvement to strategy as well as looking at how you can get the executive buy in that is so critical to success.
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We hope you have a great week. All the best,
Natalie Evans The PEX Week Team Lets connect on LinkedIn e-mail: Natalie.evans@iqpc.co.uk