David McCoy

I love these kind of posts. Jim Sinur and Elise Olding have announced the winners of the BPM Awards work that we have done for our Fall BPM conference.
Check this out. What an easy post for me to write.
Check out the press release too!
Congrats to all!

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I have a vision for the most wonderful mashup. Maybe someone has already done it. If so, tell me.
Imagine mashing up Facebook, LinkedIn, and Second Life into an application that lets you recreate neighborhoods from your past.
Go back to 1978. Recreate your small town neighborhood in Second Life. For each of your neighbors, you [...]

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Met with Wordster people today. Small company that will deliver in November. No VC money. 4th start up for the founder: Dr. Anindya Datta. “We will do to the dictionary what Wiikipedia did to the encyclopedia!” Sounded kind of audacious. I saw the demo: ontology-backed corpus scrapped from the web and crowd-source input. Visual/spatial representation [...]

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I signed up for Facebook, long ago. Didn’t like it and left. My wife, fresh out of grad school lives on Facebook.  Recently, I gave it a second chance. Wow! It’s not the interface, the applications, the icons, or the cute-overload aspect that won me over; it’s the sheer practicality.  I have reconnected with so [...]

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Scenario 1: I bought an item from a store. At home, I saw the “stainless steel” was defective and rusting. When I returned to the store, I was told they would have to check with the distributor to see what they could do. One week passed. I return to the store, and was told, “You [...]

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Let’s hear it!
I know it’s the height of foolishness to wish away a portion of your life.
However…
I think we will be forgiven for this one.
Why couldn’t the Grinch “find some way to stop” 2009 “from coming”?

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Jim posted this and I just copied it here as a public service.  All rights reserved, yadda…
If you haven’t heard Jim do a webinar, now’s your chance.
How to Use Process as a Competitive Weaponwith Jim Sinur, Research VPAugust 12th at 12:00 noon (EST)
Today many organization are actively using BPM to save money and survive, and [...]

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We could pick either side and argue all day on this alleged one.
I don’t want to say any more. Just look at this one and ask yourself how you would examine it from each perspective below:

Business Process Management
Governance, Risk and Compliance
Business Rule Management
Intelligence Quotient
Free Will and Self-Determinism
American Pioneering Spirit
Hawk
Dove
Civil Liberties
SOA

I threw that last one [...]

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This is pristine data visualization on the cheap. You need nothing fancier than your browse. Check it out. Mouse over to get insight, and select the different demographics to see how we vary by major sectors.
As one of the early high priests of the Church of Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), this kind of stuff makes [...]

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My first real job was washing dishes in a cafeteria. It was horrendous. But, there was one aspect I really liked. At the end of the day, we had to hose down the kitchen and work areas. We used high-pressure water hoses to pump hot water onto the freshly swept floors. We then took mops [...]

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