by David McCoy | December 1, 2009 | Submit a Comment
Gobbling down chow at the Chinese restaurant with one of my sons, and guess what? I get a fortune cookie that says, “Within a year, you will inherit a lot of money!” Oh, really? Let’s look at this fortune cookie in two different ways: Positive: “Oh, how cool! I’m going to get a ton of [...]
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by David McCoy | November 12, 2008 | 2 Comments
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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by David McCoy | November 10, 2008 | 1 Comment
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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by David McCoy | October 13, 2008 | 3 Comments
In Q1 2008, Jim Sinur and I will release research on the different approaches to business rule representation. This is going to be a fun research effort – lots of theory, lots of hands-on testing. This is also a misunderstood area. For instance, some users think that a natural-language (NL) approach to rule representation is [...]
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by David McCoy | October 7, 2008 | Submit a Comment
More on that German word I like so much… Say you have been hired to design and develop a new management system to be marketed to homeowners’ associations. Pretty nice job, eh? Every association on the planet is a potential customer. So you start analyzing the requirements and applying process management techniques, just like a [...]
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by David McCoy | September 29, 2008 | Submit a Comment
Industrial disdain is my pessimistic play-on-words, highlighting the dark side of industrial design. Simply, industrial disdain is when the designers are not required to use that which they design. The design may result in, say, a government building, an inexpensive car, or a new office chair. The design is developed by a disinterested party who [...]
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by David McCoy | September 20, 2008 | 1 Comment
This is one of my favorite five-Euro words. Weltanschauung (always capitalized, as German nouns prefer) means "worldview.’ I learned the word back in 1987. I learned to spell it in 1989. When I am using words like Weltanschauung, it is best to give me a little room. I am likely pontificating. I studied Weltanschauung under [...]
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