by David McCoy | May 5, 2010 | 2 Comments
PROCESS A – I was in a hotel. I wanted to check in. I was directed to enter a long velvet-roped queue, and I walked for a LONG way to get to the front desk. It was silly; I was the only one there, yet I snaked and snaked though the queue, pulling my little [...]
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by David McCoy | April 22, 2010 | Submit a Comment
Julia’s still mad that she can’t get a firm price on that red car she needs so badly. She says she’s fed up with all this talk about process reflexivity. Here’s what she dumped on me: These guys claim to have a process (what you call Process A), but I don’t think they have anything [...]
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by David McCoy | April 20, 2010 | 1 Comment
Julia tells me that Travis is a jerk. She talked to him on three different occasions and he gave her three different prices for the same red car. She told Travis that he could take Process A and shove – hmmm, better not repeat that one. Let’s just say that we are still having a [...]
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by David McCoy | April 19, 2010 | Submit a Comment
“Stuff and nonsense, McCoy! I’m not buying your story of radical process inequality until you reduce some of the variables you threw into the soup. Until then, you should rename this series “Process REFLUX” because I’m getting indigestion!” Well, I’m sure that’s just my troubled inner monologue running wild on too much coffee, but let’s [...]
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by David McCoy | April 16, 2010 | 7 Comments
When we last left our superhero, he was faced with the difficult task of making A unequal to A, making Process A unequal to Process A. How challenging is this? You tell me. Process A = Dealer X placing a price on Car Y Sammy has the dealer execute Process A while he worries about [...]
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by David McCoy | April 15, 2010 | Submit a Comment
I respect mathematics even though I no longer love it as I did in my brief stint as a undergraduate math major. Life goes on, and math is one of those things that I moved aside to make room for other ventures. But, let’s examine a particular property of math and apply it to business [...]
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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 5, 2009 | 2 Comments
BPM – business process management – is a good term. In fact, it’s a great term. But there are lots of great terms that get pushed aside in the march of time: Personnel has become Human Resources (HR) Employees have become associates, partners, colleagues, team members, etc Soup has become broth, consommé, bisque – why [...]
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by David McCoy | October 15, 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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by David McCoy | October 6, 2009 | 2 Comments
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 [...]
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