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At BPM Portugal 2013

Some quick notes on the BPM Portugal conference in Lisbon last week. It was international in the sense that there were a few ‘foreigners’ like me, who did their presentations in English, but otherwise most of the conference was in Portuguese. And…

Platform Building Thoughts

Ran across a post from someone who is pondering platform building.  As someone who has been building platforms for a while, I figured I should provide some feedback!There are very few standards in this area.  Few can even agree on what a…

BPM Process Accelerator Packs – Update

There are 3 BPM Process Accelerator Packs available now (Accelerator Packs Available ) as discssed in my earlier post: https://blogs.oracle.com/enterprisearchitecture/entry/bpm_process_accelerator_packs There is a new and very useful white paper on BPM/Accelerator best practices at: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bpm/learnmore/processaccelbestpracticeswhitepaper-1708910.pdf Thought I'd post that as the topic is…

The Meaning of Iteration

There is a curious ambiguity about the word "iteration". Sometimes it means doing exactly the same thing, over and over again; sometimes it means doing something slightly different each time. When a process is drawn as a loop, we need to understand…

The social construction of process

That previous post on process was, yes, I’ll admit it, a bit long: but the key point is that the term ‘process’ is necessarily a bit blurred, and that we get into trouble if we try too hard to sharpen up its definition.…

Experiencing culture

  The World is globalizing, BiZZdesign is growing and expanding internationally. Are we indeed close to getting one World, with a global culture? Being a Business Consultant, mainly working on Business process management projects in the Netherlands I sometimes wonder whether the…

EA Effectiveness and Process Standardization

@tdegennaro of @Forrester spotted an interesting correlation in his company's 2009 survey. "Survey respondents who reported a high degree of business and IT process standardization also reported that EA was more effective and more influential within the organization." DeGennaro suggests "there must…

Big Data, Social, Mobile, Cloud and… Case Management?

These days, it seems that business and IT conversations just about everywhere are revolving around that same 4 themes – Big Data, social collaboration, mobile applications and cloud computing. These IT megatrends are in the forefront of the minds of IT executives…

IRM EA/BPM Conference Delivers

Last week I presented a keynote (“The Strategy to Execution Process”) at the London IRM EA/BPM conference. There were so many good ideas and new perspectives that after three days I thought my head would explode.   A melting pot of ideas –…

Customer-Driven Conversation

Understanding how to handle customer needs and expectations is critical to success. From better service levels to lower costs to new, innovative product offerings, the pressure is on for organizations to go above and beyond. And, as consumerization continues its exponential growth,…
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