OpenText announced Friday the completion of the Metastorm acquisition. We do many acquisitions at OpenText but this particular acquisition is very interesting for a multitude of reasons. Metastorm is the leader in business process management (BPM) which is a discipline quite related…
The Developer: "Let’s start coding. We don’t have time for solution design." The Designer: "No, we should design first. It’s not a waste of time. It will reduce rework." The Analyst: "Guys, please! How to start designing, if we don’t know what…
Recently, I have been initiating a Business Process Management System (BPMS) implementation for a major client in the financial sector. This made me wonder: how can I come up with a set of BPMS-specific, practical quality criteria for successfully implementing a flexible,…
Recently, I have been initiating a Business Process Management System (BPMS) implementation for a major client in the financial sector. This made me wonder: how can I come up with a set of BPMS-specific, practical quality criteria for successfully implementing a flexible,…
While I’m not doing much these days in the BPM space, I did recently have lunch with a friend of mine who works for Genesys Lab. I don’t normally talk about vendor products by name, but the iWD (intelligent Workload Distribution) product…
Recently Gartner released the 2010 Hype Cycle for Enterprise Architecture (EA). It's an interesting report. I'm not sure if there are really any surprises here but it worth looking at the macro themes of the report. You can find additional resources here: Full…
As discussed in a previous blog entry (Don’t do it fast, do it right) the agility imperative for modern enterprises is not only to change fast, but rather to enable the right changes at the right time in the right way. This…
Back in the early 1900s a concept called "Modern Management Practices" or "Self-Control" was all the rage. Originally conceived at DuPont and General Motors it was a way for managers to have detailed control over employee tasks - because back then managers actually…
Back in the early 1900s a concept called "Modern Management Practices" or "Self-Control" was all the rage. Originally conceived at DuPont and General Motors it was a way for managers to have detailed control over employee tasks - because back then managers actually…
Back in the early 1900s a concept called "Modern Management Practices" or "Self-Control" was all the rage. Originally conceived at DuPont and General Motors it was a way for managers to have detailed control over employee tasks - because back then managers actually…
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All content written by and copyrighted by Todd Biske. If you are reading this on a site other than my “Outside the Box” blog, it’s probably being republished without my permission. Please consider reading it at the source. A succession of tweets…