David McCoy

I own the process for cooling the air in my house.  If something goes wrong with the air conditioners, it’s me they come to. So, when one of our units went bad, I had to bring over three different repairmen before I was back in business.  I was sure there was a leak. All the [...]

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As stated earlier, I’m hiring.  Here’s the opening.  If you’re a top speaker, writer and researcher with strong BPM credentials, consider applying.  Top writers can prove it: books, articles, blogs, columns, etc.  Top speakers have a list of past engagements at the ready  Top researchers have killer analytical skills and ask way too many deep [...]

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BPMN, XPDL, WS-BPEL (or whatever it’s called this month).  What are you using?  Include the version numbers if possible. 

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If you found a magic lamp that would grant you THE definitive answer to exactly one BPM-related question, what would that question be?
Yes, this is a lamp of somewhat reduced magical powers, so forget the gold and the mansion in Nepal.  Just play along and ask it a BPM question.  And as Picasso said, the [...]

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Depending on whom I speak with, I get different views of BPM.  Some see BPM as just a tooling discussion, something to use to make application development jazzier.  Others see BPM as a grand and glorious vision of change and transformation.  The latter might not even see the need for BPM technology in their vision.  [...]

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Scenario 1: Attended a kid birthday party at one of those game-pizza-noise places.  Everyone who comes in gets stamped with a UV readable number. Upon leaving, you take only the kids that match your number.  Fair deal.  Well, I watched families leaving and no one was checking them out.  In fact, there was no one [...]

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If you are a business unit executive (non IT) with P&L authority, we would like to trial a survey with you.  If you are interested, please contact me at david.mccoy AT gartner.com (fill in the @).
We would only need 30 minutes of your time to call and pre-test this survey with you.  It would be [...]

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Each week, the RSD picks five pieces of research that relate to a theme critical for BPM clients.  Next week’s picks tie SOA, Complex Event Processing and Master Data Management into a common thread.  SOA makes us think in business-oriented building blocks, critical for BPM modeling alignment.  MDM makes the SOA and CEP world go [...]

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QUESTION: What kind of podcasts would you want to see the BPM team deliver? 
Three caveats:

These podcasts will be for Gartner client consumption; they will not be placed on the web as freebies.
Podcasts have to be 10 minutes in length.
Please don’t suggest: “Please interview my great company and tell the world how wonderful my product [...]

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I don’t see Business Process Automation being used that much any more.  Maybe I just don’t read the right articles, but it seems that BPM is the preferred term.  Well, I am finding that BPM means too many things to too many people.  Some see it as the act of geeky technical implementation while other [...]

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