The skills required to adopt BPM depend on the scope of work performed. For some bottom - up projects, it is possible to make good progress with limited knowledge of business process modeling and components needed for automation. Extensive corporate adaptation requires a wide range of skills in the following areas:

• Define the end-to-end process
• Process knowledge of that particular industry
• Design and implement a process using a third generation business suite
• BPM technology
• BPM method
• BPM sovereignty
• Business and IT communication skills
• Collaborative skills
• Planning to acquire and improve such skills is part of a larger adaptation process and usually develops during the BPM governance process .