by David McCoy | November 24, 2008 | 2 Comments
At the IBM software summit, I saw a demo of what Airbus is doing with RFID, CEP, BPMT and BAM. For those who don’t know the acronyms: RFID – Radio-Frequency Identification CEP – Complex Event Processing BPMT – Business Process Management Technologies (as opposed to BPM which we use for the management discipline) BAM – [...]
Category: Business Process Management (BPM) Tags: Business Process Management (BPM), David McCoy, Gartner
by David McCoy | November 19, 2008 | Submit a Comment
I will be live-blogging from the “IBM Software Analyst Connect” event taking place today and tomorrow in Stamford, CT. Disclaimer: My own interests will color what I write about, and the opinions I express are mine, not Gartner’s. No surprise there – go back and read my disclaimer. Also, since this is being done in [...]
Category: Business Process Management (BPM) Tags: Business Process Management (BPM), David McCoy, Gartner
by David McCoy | November 17, 2008 | 4 Comments
Well, it’s sort of true. Our survey data (n= 338) shows that “the business side” in both Europe and Asia will be statistically more likely to lead BPM projects than will be US business-side staff. The differences are substantial; this is not a “margin of error” thing. But, no matter how you look at it, [...]
Category: Business Process Management (BPM) Tags: Business Process Management (BPM), David McCoy, Gartner
by David McCoy | November 13, 2008 | Submit a Comment
We at Gartner talk about BPM’s focus on “continuous improvement.” We really like to talk about agility and rapid process change. So, what happens when your process change time is measured in years… or decades? I heard a presentation today where the speaker was describing the complexities of interstate resource negotiation. He said in this [...]
Category: Business Process Management (BPM) Rabble-Rousing and General Hoopla Tags: Business Process Management (BPM), David McCoy, Gartner
by David McCoy | November 12, 2008 | 2 Comments
I guest lectured tonight at Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business – my other alma mater. The topic – naturally – was business process management, and for over two hours, I subjected these undergrads to the history of BPM: How the market of 1999 – 2003 emerged from the roots of application integration and [...]
Category: Academic Goings-On Business Process Management (BPM) Philosophy Technowishing Tags: Academia, Business Process Management (BPM), David McCoy, Gartner, Philosophy
by David McCoy | November 10, 2008 | 1 Comment
Syncretism is a term that is often used in discussions of how one religion adopts aspects of another. It’s not often used in a positive way, as in, “Wow fellow syncretist! Aren’t you glad we’ve adopted all these alien practices and created a mish-mashed perspective that makes everyone happy?” However excited I am about religious [...]
Category: Academic Goings-On Business Process Management (BPM) Philosophy Technowishing Tags: Academia, Business Process Management (BPM), David McCoy, Gartner, Philosophy
by David McCoy | November 5, 2008 | Submit a Comment
BPR – Business Process Reengineering – the ghost of the 1990s, the fancy name used to justify downsizing, rightsizing, and organizational carnage. To speak the term today is to risk censure, rightfully so. Yet, are you heading down the same path again, in your organization? Bad economies, recessions, frozen credit, and top-heavy organizations – all [...]
Category: Business Process Management (BPM) Philosophy Technowishing Tags: Business Process Management (BPM), David McCoy, Gartner
