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 business’ strategy, processes, people and content are interconnected.  Many of today’s successful organizations […]

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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 too…

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 too…

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 processes are often unstructured in their nature and simply cannot be mapped out […]

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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 those facing a choice of business process notation. That doesn’t mean that there […]

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; other…

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; other…