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To: Brinks who wrote (20929)	3/23/2005 6:13:56 PM
From: Lazarus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78464

i like this: scientigo.com Market Facts • A 2005 Gartner survey of 1,300 CIOs representing $57 billion in annual spending shows Business Process Improvement to be the Number 1 priority • A recent study by Cutter Consortium, an Arlington, MA consulting firm, found that 83% of surveyed companies are engaged in Business Process Re-engineering projects • Gartner Group and AMR Research report similar findings that 25% of US companies with revenues in excess of $200M have adopted Six Sigma (a process improvement technique), and that the number is expected to grow to 80% by 2010 • Manufacturers are expected to spend nearly $3 billion on quality improvement processes in 2005, with 38% of this directed towards software and services; Process Improvement consulting ranked 3rd on the list of planned services expenditures • In a September 2004 report, the Economist Intelligence Unit reported 55% of companies said they are evaluating Business Process Management tools