David McCoy

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 – Business Activity Monitoring

By using [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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Nebraska is getting a lot of kids.  “Hi!  Take my kid, willya?” 
Nebraska never intended this, but their “safe haven” law did not specifically state an age limit.
CNN says this:
State officials said because of legislative procedures it will take at least a week to change the language of the safe haven law, creating a window [...]

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Scenario:  Driving home from lunch.  Passing by that really expensive new neighborhood that tried to leapfrog the normal market price by about $200K in one swoop.  Fell flat on its face.  Lot after lot sits unoccupied.  Now, I see a new sign in big bold colors:
49-Year Mortgages Available!
Almost half a century of mortgage payments?  So, [...]

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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 particular [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Scenario: Driving home late last night.   Listening to NPR when I could find it.  Heard a commentator say something to the effect of, “No Democratic president has ever won office without carrying the state of Missouri.”  Sudden urge to rip the radio from the dash and never listen to any newscast again.
I just searched for [...]

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I shot this photo earlier today, right after lunch.  As a “rules guy,” I was struck by the use of the modal verb “may.”  You remember modals?  They’re auxiliary words such as: can, may, shall, might, etc.  They’re used to express such things as possibilities and capabilities.  Here is a nice link to help jar [...]

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