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 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 CrozerKeystone 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