Business Process Management (BPM)

Must-See Guide to #GartnerBPM!

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It’s that time of year again – the Gartner BPM Summit – where all of the business process management (BPM) gurus are set to gather together in Baltimore to discuss what is going on in the BPM world. The hot topics this year, not surprisingly, include case management, mobility, gamification and social media, and basic […]

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Expanding the Envelope of BPM

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Organizational leaders face difficult decisions when it comes to balancing change against ROI expectations. Does change justify the cost in terms of time, money and resources? At the end of the day, executives are looking solutions that can help them create and sustain an agile business while minimizing waste. Over the years organizations have achieved […]

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A Rising Tide Lifts All Ships

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How BPM Can Increase Your Overall SharePoint Maturity Over 43% of organizations deploying SharePoint are looking to purchase workflow or business process management (BPM) add-on applications for the platform, according to the 2011 “How Are Businesses Using SharePoint” survey. Like many businesses deploying SharePoint, usage within the organization expands dramatically as users find it a useful […]

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Does This Make My Process Look Fat?

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How the people side of change impacts business transformation results People are the hardest part of business change. If you want to increase the chance of success of change efforts, you need to emphasize not just the quality of the technical solution, but also the role that stakeholders play in the process change itself. Despite […]

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Exposing the value of BPM

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Inefficient processes can make or break your organizations ability to succeed. Each year organizations dish out hundreds, even millions, of dollars leveraging the wrong resources to try and improve ineffective business processes. Companies that are unable to adapt to new industry regulations, changing business models and competitor innovation are facing the reality of failure. The […]

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How Adaptive Case Management Builds Business Agility

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Business agility is all about being prepared for and able to quickly adapt to change. There has been so much written about agility from gurus like Peter Drucker, industry analysts like Forrester and Gartner, and the large well-respected community of process improvement practitioners that it would seem there is nothing new left to be said. […]

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Gamification is Central to Social

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Years ago when I was in school, I asked my business professor to share a bit of advice that he had found invaluable throughout the years. He offered me a simple quote, “Keeping score, improves the score.” I cannot count the number of times I’ve been reminded of that bit of advice. The idea of knowing what […]

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Must-See Live Webinars for February

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February might be the shortest month of the year, but that’s not holding us back. Our calendar this month is jam-packed with informative webinars on a variety of topics around business process management (BPM) and enterprise architecture (EA). Check out the list below to see what we have to offer and be sure to register! […]

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Q&A Series: The Future of EA and BPA

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Today I’m continuing my Q&A series on frequent questions asked about enterprise architecture and business process analysis tools. Over the past few months there has been a lot of chatter around the future of EA and BPA. Here’s another installment on the future of this market and the best way to leverage these tools to […]

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Human vs. Machine: How Adaptive Case Management Helps Insurance Firms Serve Customers

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Have you seen the movie Real Steel? In the storyline of this flick, automation has replaced human fighters with 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robot boxers. The moral is “humans out, automation in” — end of story, right? Not exactly. As it turns out, it’s the right combination of human and machine that proves necessary for the […]

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When It Comes to Mobile Apps – Thin is In!

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One of the big topics of discussion regarding mobile is whether the mobile app market is moving towards native apps that are OS/device specific, or whether it is moving towards device neutral platforms such as HTML5. Today the mobile market is marked by a combination of native apps, device neutral apps and hybrid apps which […]

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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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