Obama Announces “BPM for Everyone”, but Doesn’t Mean Business Process Management

Dennis Byron at the BPM in Action blog discusses in this post that Obama has announced that the U.S. will have BPM for everyone in the form of U.S. government performance officer. When Obama mentions BPM in this case, it most likely means Business Performance Measurement and not Business Process Management. These two meanings for the acronym both came around 2000 when IDC was researching BPM, so which came first? Soon enough, we all might be calling Business Performance Measurement as BPM.