David McCoy

Today, I went to a Southern legend’s headquarters. This private company is a local phenomenon, and at close to three billion dollars in sales, rapidly becoming a nationwide force.  I once went to church with the founder and his sons, but had never been to the home office.  What a great visit. The legend is [...]

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I saw a sign today: “I buy junk.”  That reminds me of another sign I often see: “We buy ugly houses.”  These signs set the tone for the transaction, don’t they?  You could take the Hope diamond to the first merchant and he could simply say, “How much ya’ want for that junk?”  You could [...]

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My team is starting the BPM Hype Cycle for 2009.  If you have any BPM topics that you think should be represented, please let me know and I will pass them on to the team.  No promises, but we can assess your input against our list of hype-cycle-worthy technologies and concepts.
Please limit to BPM-related stuff.
thanks!

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This past weekend, I willingly participated in one of the most painful processes on the planet – I went looking at new cars.   The weather was warm, my Saturday meeting was boring, and I was near car heaven.  So, I went looking.  Man, do I hate the car looking-testing-sniffing-buying process.  Even though most of the [...]

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When we were all rolling in those filthy-rich, blissful days of Internet summer, all around us, people were saying, “The old rules don’t apply!”  Bricks-and-mortar are dead, clicks are the new currency, the old economy is dead, long live the new economy.  The market only goes up, income only goes up, house prices only go [...]

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I’m a card-carrying fan of The Three Stooges.  Yes, I’m male… so we know that my admiration is genetically-wired, but it’s still admiration.  Late last night, when I couldn’t sleep, I watched some pristine new releases of classic Columbia Stooges shorts and couldn’t help but wonder: “What if The Three Stooges had been cast in [...]

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Our San Diego BPM conference is next week!  The London BPM conference – a few weeks ago – turned in the highest “usefulness” score ever for any Gartner EMEA conference.  If you missed London, you want to hit San Diego.
Elise Olding, one of the chairs, has asked me to let everyone know about our use [...]

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Today, my wife advanced another major step in her quest to be ordained as a Methodist minister.  The amount of preparatory work for this big day was similar to what I have seen with consulting firm senior managers who are up for partner and with professors being considered for tenure – it’s that serious.  Ordination [...]

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I have just put the last comma in a new piece of research that will be out this quarter, entitled: Taking the Mystery Out of Business Rule Representation.  As a hint at what we researched, I am including one of the main graphics: a chart that shows the various rule representation approaches plotted against two [...]

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