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Six Strategies for a Successful Center of Excellence

Few organizations, less than 20% according to a recent study by Robert Kaplan and David Norton, are able to execute successfully on their business strategy1. Implementing the right business improvements is nearly impossible when you have no clear understanding of how your…

@ IBM Impact: Opening Session, Tuesday April 12, 2011

It's Day 2 of Impact, back in the "main tent" for the opening sessions.  Opening today's session is Katie Linendoll.  Katie is telling us how she was slaughtered by Watson in Jeopardy.  Her take:  $2.  Watson's: significantly more. Yesterday, was focused on the…

@ IBM Impact: Opening Session, Monday 4/11/11

This week, I'm at the IBM Impact 2011 conference in Vegas. Impact is IBM's Websphere focused conference. I expect to hear a lot about BPM, SOA and Cloud, Cloud, Cloud. Rocking opening band, including some iPad playing "strings". The conference theme is…

Silos, what silos?

Following on from my blog on "Beware the new silos!" today I was speaking with a business process analyst who briefed me on how his company, a medium sized financial services organization, is using a leading BPMS together with a collaboration based…

Silos, what silos?

Following on from my blog on "Beware the new silos!" today I was speaking with a business process analyst who briefed me on how his company, a medium sized financial services organization, is using a leading BPMS together with a collaboration based…

The Dynamic Side of BPM

One goal of business process management (BPM) is to automate and streamline human-centric business processes with the intent of benefiting from lower costs, increased productivity, greater control and better response times.  However, not all processes are easily automated and governed.  Many organizational…

BPMN vs. EPC revisited, part 1

There were several posts and discussions on the topic of “BPMN vs. EPC”. One of them is quite comprehensive and its discussion thread very interesting. But there are still many important points untouched and I’d like to share some of them for…

Beware the new silos!

Coordinating EA, SOA, Business Design, BPM, Business Capability Management and SOAM. It’s a complicated world, and one of the primary ways we all cope with that is by specialization. For years I have characterized myself as a specialist in SOA; others will…

Beware the new silos!

Coordinating EA, SOA, Business Design, BPM, Business Capability Management and SOAM. It’s a complicated world, and one of the primary ways we all cope with that is by specialization. For years I have characterized myself as a specialist in SOA; others will…

3 Reasons Organizations Need Capability Maps

Organizations are made up of thousands of capabilities, each individually responsible for what the organization must do to successfully perform any type of business activity.  With thousands of capabilities supporting multiple business units, it becomes difficult to see and understand how the…

The Top 5 Capabilities You Want From BPM Suites

What do you want to achieve by using business process management (BPM) software?  Address compliance and risk management issues?  Improve your customer service?  Integrate data across existing applications? To achieve these goals, some organizations look to leverage a robust BPM suite, while…
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