David McCoy

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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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 interesting.
We all know the “process” for opening a banana, yes? Sure. Well, that process is not optimal.  Check out this video and ask, “Who was the original process owner for ‘opening a banana’?”
I’ll give you a hint.  It wasn’t us.
Next time, find the original process owner and see how he or she does [...]

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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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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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In a few days, I should have the paperwork that allows me to locate and hire a new Research Director to be based in Europe (ideally, UK).  Now, nothing’s certain in this world, and this is not a binding statement; it’s more of a heads-up.  My HR partner approved a posting on my blog, so [...]

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This is a simple post…
It’s a picture…
You click it…
That’s all.

But, once you click it? That’s when the fun starts.

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Gartner defines agility as, “the ability of an organization to sense environmental change and respond efficiently and effectively.”  Sounds simple doesn’t it?  And who doesn’t want to be agile?  Daryl Plummer and I have led Gartner’s agility research for years and you know… “being agile” is a lot harder than it sounds.  Besides all the [...]

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Scenario 1:  Truck marked “Law Enforcement” towing a trailer with no working brake lights.  Stops in front of me and I almost rear-end him.
Scenario 2:  Van marked “Police” races past me and runs a full red light while I stop.  This was a “work detail” van – roadside trash collection with prison labor. No burglary [...]

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I’m doing some basic data gathering from several sources – typical work of an analyst.  In this blog posting, I’m looking for some current anecdotal evidence around BPM investment analysis mechanics – nothing fancy.  From our BPM survey, we know that cost savings are critical BPM measures of success.  I’m interested in the mechanics of [...]

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