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Think Big: Extending BPM Across Your Organization

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In my blog post last month I covered a few of the lessons learned by early BPM adopters on how to begin a business process management (BPM) initiative. Based on many early BPM successes, we have seen the focus of BPM projects shift from just streamlining and improving a few key processes within their organization […]

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Mobile Five Ways

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Gartner predicts that by 2013, mobile devices will outpace the laptop as the most popular way to access the internet. As a mobile user, I want to access and interact with processes in my business just as easily as I access other businesses, such as Amazon, Chipotle, or Schwab, from my iPhone (or tablet, if […]

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How to Start a BPM Initiative: A Lesson from Early Adopters

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Business process management (BPM) initiatives are growing in popularity because thousands of organizations have proven the measurable value BPM can deliver at a lower cost and in a dramatically shorter time than with traditional solution development approaches. Early BPM adopters have achieved an exceptional amount of success in their BPM deployments and there is a […]

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Mobile BPM: Connecting People to Process Wherever They Are

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In an increasingly more mobile society, work is not completed only in the office – it is often done on-the-go using a mobile device. Unsurprising to most, a study conducted by Morgan Stanley indicated that 91% of all U.S. citizens have their mobile device within reach twenty-four-seven. To take this even further, in a recent […]

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3 Tips to Improve New Client On-boarding

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In its nature, new client on-boarding is prone to error. For example, to bring on a new customer a financial services firm often goes through redundant, manual paper-intensive processes – producing bottlenecks so large that it takes several weeks, or even months, for a customer to be fully integrated. The process, while seemingly effective at […]

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Doing More with Less, the Smart Way

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A few weeks ago I was paging through an issue of Mother Jones and the article, “All Work and No Pay: The Great Speedup” caught my eye. The story discussed how more and more, managers are asking their employees to take on heavier workloads with longer hours without any incentives. What was even more striking […]

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From Social Stigma to Social Synergy

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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 the reasons that social technologies have gotten a bad rap stems from their […]

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Extending Our Leadership

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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 integration with content management.   So what does this mean for us and our […]

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Who Drives an Enterprise Architecture Initiative? Part 3

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Enterprise Architecture (EA) projects are often thought to be initiated solely by the IT department. Depending on the situation, this isn’t always the case. In the past two posts of this series we have discussed how EA initiatives can be driven by enterprise architects or IT, but these two groups aren’t the only people who […]

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Who Drives an Enterprise Architecture Initiative? Part 2

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Depending on the scenario, enterprise architecture projects can be led by different people and groups within an organization. In the first of our three-part series published last week, we discussed a customer case study where enterprise architects drove the need for implementing an EA solution, but this is just one example.  With a powerful enterprise […]

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Power of EA + BPM: Thoughts from Gartner EA Summit

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The Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit in London came to a close yesterday.  After two days of insightful keynotes, analyst presentations, workshops and networking, it was clear that business processes and EA are inherently and necessarily linked to one another.  In a recent Gartner survey, improving and aligning business processes was cited as an EA priority […]

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Oil & Gas Companies Under Pressure

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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 consistency in operations amid (or in spite of) price fluctuations, pressure to find […]

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