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Entries from October 2009

Dangerous Dealings with your Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)

October 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment

I have a friend who is a well-established businessman in a franchise operation.  He is one of the best, so naturally, when said franchise (term used loosely) wanted to build new systems, they grabbed him as their SME. Seemed like a smart move. I would have recommended doing the same. It’s a “process thing.” But….

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Tags: Business Process Management (BPM)

Learn about Pattern-Based Strategy(tm)

October 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Check out our new web page on Pattern-Based Strategy. For those of you who follow our research on business process management suites (BPMS), business rule management (BRM), simulation, business activity monitoring (BAM) and Complex Event Processing (CEP), you can see it all coming together in a really big way!

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Tags: Business Process Management (BPM) · Business Rule Management (BRM) · Technowishing

A Few More Interesting "THINGS" from THE BPM Conference

October 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Business Process Networks – I had a cool research discussion with my fellow analyst Benoit L’heureux. A great blend of IaaS and community for B2B process.You can read on this if you look him up. Expect to see more of the BPN research in your future.
Certification for Business Process Competency Centers – Hallway discussion with [...]

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BPM Certification – Outside the US?

October 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Dinner with Gabrielle Field, one one of the powers-that-be working with Brett Champlin in the ABPMP certification effort.  Talking about BPM Certification, we (collectively) came up with a few idea. As ideas, they are just that… ideas:

Certification will be attractive to BPO players outside the US. Just one more bit of street cred they can [...]

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BPM Conference in Orlando – A Working Document

October 5th, 2009 · No Comments

Hot topics in Orlando today… a quick core dump from Janelle Hill and David McCoy

Business Rules
Business Rule roles and responsibilities
CIO Agendas (Is BPM on your agenda?)
Statement for today: “Explicit process is the imperative.”

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Tags: Business Process Management (BPM)