Pétanque, along with the South African Post Office, proudly accepted the Silver Award for Excellence in BPM and Workflow 2009 for the Middle East and Africa region on 24 November!
The winners of the 2009 Global Awards for Excellence in Business Process Management (BPM) and Workflow was announced at the Awards Ceremony presented in a special webinar on Tuesday November 24, 2009 at 12 noon EST chaired by Derek Miers, lead judge. Co-sponsored by WfMC, BPMFocus and BPM.com and now in their 16th year, these prestigious awards recognize user organizations that have demonstrably excelled in implementing innovative business process solutions to meet strategic business objectives. There are five geographical regions. Each region receives Gold and Silver Awards.
During the ceremony, Derek Miers acknowledged all the Finalists and then described the major highlights of each case study after announcing the Gold and Silver winners. Commenting on the Pétanque- South African Post Office submission, he stated that the case study was in his opinion to be ranked in the top 5 globally due to the impact of the project, based on people engagement, innovative application of IT and benefits realized. The judges recognized how the project applied process in an innovative way to engage many people in the organization to achieve enterprise strategic goals. The judges were unanimous with some votes, yet at odds on others with surprising results. They all agreed, however, that this year the Finalists were the toughest to date to select just two winners per region - faced as they were with exceptionally high quality submissions.
Michélle Booysen, Ph.D, PMP and Managing Director of Cape Town based Pétanque Consultancy (www.petanque-c.com) remarks: “This is a fantastic achievement for Pétanque: the space in which we work locally and internationally is very competitive and we are particularly pleased to be acknowledged for the edge that VizPro®, our in-house developed application of process as a principal business management tool, brings. In proudly partnering with the South African Post Office we have demonstrated the powerful impact of VizPro®.”
Nominated winners receive a silver bowl on a wooden base and Nominator winners receive a silver tray. See picture of the table of trophies here (click on picture to enlarge).
The slides from the webinar have been posted to www.bpmf.org for viewing and linking.
The Winners and Finalists of this year's awards will be published in the BPM Excellence in Practice 2010. The Excellence in Practice annual book series profiles the winning case studies each year of the new winners of the BPM and Workflow Awards with the emphasis this year on Impact, Innovation and Implementation in BPM Excellence in Practice 2009.The Digital Edition has just been released.
For a copy of the case study, contact Justin at justin@petanque-c.com

Time Magazine, 9 November 2009, runs and article on how our appetite for Tuna is killing off one of the ocean’s most magnificent creatures. Graphs show how the BlueFin, YellowFin and BigEye species are not replenishing fast enough. These are used mostly for sashimi, with Japan consuming over 80% of global production. At the same time, the West is catching up on sushi consumption, but the alarming statistic is that the West’s demand for canned tuna (Skipjack and Albacore) has caused supplies in some areas - in the last year - to have dropped by 50%.

Upon becoming an esteemed member of the Institute of Directors (South Africa), I received a comprehensive “Director’s Toolkit”. In amongst the range of topics covered in the toolkit, is the Sustainability Handbook, described on the first page as “A comprehensive guide to responsible corporate behaviour and sustainable business practices across the triple-bottom-line”.

A few weeks ago, I attended the launch of the King III Code of Good Governance. “King II” preceded “King III” in 2002, known as the King Report on Corporate Governance for South Africa. King II made an important contribution to the understanding of corporate governance and corporate citizenship in South Africa, and has been studied and applied globally. King III focuses on leadership, sustainability and corporate leadership.

Placing the spotlight on sustainability, it is clear that enterprises (read organizations) must know that they cannot continue to operate without understanding their impact on society, the environment and stakeholders.

King III advocates a shift from sustainability reporting to integrated performance. This means that enterprises must create and implement and monitor processes that link effective leadership, sustainability policies, innovation, fairness and collaboration into strategies and processes for sustainability, which in turn must deliver the enterprise promise (vision).

In the meantime, what do I do whilst enterprises, private and government, strategise, plan and decide on how to be sustainability focused?

1. I can get an online guide that shows what fish I should order or buy.
2. I can speak to my sushi chef and ask: is this tuna from a sustainable source. I will probably decline the tuna if I don’t like what I hear.
3. When the need for a tuna mayo on rye comes my way, before buying the can, I will check the label to see if the tuna was sourced from sustainable pole and line fishing.
4. And I will check in on WWF and see where and how I can help to increase marine reserves.

That is my contribution to corporate governance in the enterprise of my being a citizen of this earth.