by David McCoy | April 13, 2011 | Submit a Comment
John Dixon and I are writing research on Business Rules functionality delivered as a service in a “Platform as a Service” model. It’s a rare bird today. Demand for pure BRM-aaS? Not sure. BR functionality is often bundled with other functionality (e.g., BPM) and if you’re going to the cloud, why wouldn’t you go with [...]
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by David McCoy | March 30, 2011 | 1 Comment
Interesting day, today. In dealing with a service provider, I found that I have more visibility into the process they are providing than they do. That’s pretty sad. Part of me wonders if they’ll call me up and say, “David… what do you see from your view? Tell us, because we can’t see the whole [...]
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by David McCoy | March 24, 2011 | 1 Comment
I like visual metaphors, so imagine this one. You have three actors: “The Man” or “The Woman.” Those management types. “The Workers.” Those wage slaves “The Process People.” Those gurus who claim to make life better. What if each actor had a big wall clock? What if each clocks was labeled with a “tag” (e.g., [...]
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by David McCoy | March 21, 2011 | 3 Comments
If the collection of activities that we refer to as Business Process Management – aka BPM – wasn’t called BPM, what would it be called? Note, I’m assuming that the tenets and the underlying value proposition of BPM remain true, that the activities behind the name still exist. This isn’t a trivial exercise, even if [...]
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by David McCoy | March 18, 2011 | Submit a Comment
I love to spot process incongruities. I was in line at a rather well-known chain, cafeteria-line-style restaurant the other day, and noticed that there was only one server for the whole mass of hungry people. The line – needless to say – was moving very slowly. A few of us looked at each other, and [...]
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by David McCoy | October 12, 2010 | 1 Comment
Consider how we have purchased fuel for our automobiles: 1962 – WE KNOW YOU! – “Hi, Tom! How’s Mary? And the kids? Great! Howsabout we check the oil again, Stevie… I want you to make sure Tom’s new Chevy is in tip-top condition. Yeah, that’s right. Wipe the stick with a clean rag each time. [...]
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by David McCoy | September 20, 2010 | Submit a Comment
This is purely anecdotal evidence, but 16.8% of the searches that lead to my blog are “BPM Certification” related. In order, the searches are: BPM certification Business Process Management Certification bpm certifications (plural) best bpm certification The evidence is anecdotal because you really can’t conclude anything universal about this. If people are searching for “BPM [...]
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by David McCoy | September 10, 2010 | Submit a Comment
I’ve written a research note on the intersection of context and process, and it’s a compelling subject. It’s not interesting to say that context can benefit processes; that’s self-evident. Just imagine stripping context out of a process, and you can see why we take it as “a given.” What’s more interesting about the relationship is [...]
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by David McCoy | June 28, 2010 | 1 Comment
Process patents got a non-answer today from the U.S. Supreme Court. My attorney friends at Morris, Manning and Martin sent me their view of the ruling. [As a non-attorney, I don’t even pretend to grok all the nuances of patent law]. The MMM piece was great reading, and the most vexing thing that I saw [...]
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by David McCoy | June 7, 2010 | 5 Comments
Like my picture? 75.5 MPG isn’t too bad, is it? I actually hit 92 MPG, but the photo was too blurry to show. 75.5 Miles Per Gallon! I’m a HERO! Well, no… I was going down a mountain, using just enough gas to keep the engine turning. I was “riding the brake.” Going up the [...]
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