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Using Business Model Canvas for non-profits

How do we use Alex Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas for the business of a not-for-profit organisation? Or, for that matter, the non-monetary aspects of a commercial organisation? Over the past while have been asked by quite a few folks – Shawn Callahan, Alan Rodriguez,…

Evolving the Way Work Gets Done

Taking into account the needs of our customers and partners and the rapid technology advancements in social computing, today Metastorm released Version 9.1 of the Metastorm BPM software suite, Version 9.0 of Metastorm Smart Business Workspace and the new Metastorm Business Process…

From Social Stigma to Social Synergy

It is remarkable how quickly social technologies have become the primary way that many people communicate and collaborate. Yet in many companies the use of these technologies is seen as detrimental time wasters that should be prohibited in the workspace. One of…

Business architect and enterprise architect

This one started from a Tweet from Vince Outlaw, one of the attendees at the recent Gartner EA conference in San Diego: SMOutlaw: Hot IT job No. 1: Business architect http://ow.ly/5p44R Very timely as Enterprise Business Architecture is a HUGE subject at…

Extending Our Leadership

We’ve got some great news! Last week, IDC MarketScape announced that Metastorm has is a Leader in Business Process Platforms – citing our consistent ROI, product innovation, cost management strategy, planning capabilities, and portfolio strategy, including our technical platform and vision around…

Takeaways from the Elite User Conference

At the Elite User Conference — both on the exhibit hall floor and in the sessions — the discussions surrounded the many challenges facing law firms today, including risk management, conflict processing, and new business intake, as well as the various solutions developed…

Achieving Operational Excellence

In my post last Monday, I discussed that if you leverage enterprise architecture (EA) disciplines and solutions during the business process design phase of your business process management (BPM) projects you can better discover what your best practices are.  However, establishing visibility into…

Uncovering Process Excellence

Achieving process excellence is possible. To do it you can start by bringing together the top performers within your organization to capture what it is that makes them good at what they do. This isn’t always easy because many top performers can’t…

Oil & Gas Companies Under Pressure

Oil companies [are] essentially spending twice as much to undertake the same amount of work as in 2000¹. It’s evident that oil and gas companies are under an incredible amount of pressure. Pressure to meet increasing demands for energy, pressure to provide…

Thoughts from Gartner BPM Summit

Gartner Business Process Management Summit is in full swing and after a jam-packed day of keynotes, sessions, roundtables and one-on-one conversations with BPM users, vendors and industry experts, we are seeing three major themes driving  BPM interest and adoption today – Visibility,…

Parallel Universe Syndrome?

I have become increasingly concerned that in the typical enterprise the major business improvement disciplines operate to some extent as silos. EA is often disconnected from Business Architecture. BPM is frequently not well connected with EA and Application Modernization. Governance is commonly…

Parallel Universe Syndrome?

I have become increasingly concerned that in the typical enterprise the major business improvement disciplines operate to some extent as silos. EA is often disconnected from Business Architecture. BPM is frequently not well connected with EA and Application Modernization. Governance is commonly…
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