by David McCoy | January 19, 2009 | Submit a Comment
Elise Olding has picked up some nice press in Computerworld UK for her prediction that 50% of BPM Programs will fail. Interpretive notes: The failure potential is at the program level and not at the project level. The main cause of death will be failing to create a credible Business Process Competency Center (BPCC). We [...]
Category: Business Process Management (BPM) Philosophy Tags: Business Process Management (BPM), David McCoy, Gartner, Philosophy
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 [...]
Category: Academic Goings-On Business Process Management (BPM) Philosophy Technowishing Tags: Academia, Business Process Management (BPM), David McCoy, Gartner, Philosophy
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 [...]
Category: Academic Goings-On Business Process Management (BPM) Philosophy Technowishing Tags: Academia, Business Process Management (BPM), David McCoy, Gartner, Philosophy
by David McCoy | November 5, 2008 | Submit a Comment
BPR – Business Process Reengineering – the ghost of the 1990s, the fancy name used to justify downsizing, rightsizing, and organizational carnage. To speak the term today is to risk censure, rightfully so. Yet, are you heading down the same path again, in your organization? Bad economies, recessions, frozen credit, and top-heavy organizations – all [...]
Category: Business Process Management (BPM) Philosophy Technowishing Tags: Business Process Management (BPM), David McCoy, Gartner
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 18, 2008 | 1 Comment
Back in 1994 (or was it 1995), I saw the coolest software product I had ever seen up to that point in my life (including all the “wonderful” code that I had written). I was working for Deloitte and Touche and was in Montreal, presenting on this new phenomenon that was just starting to gain [...]
Category: Business Process Management (BPM) Philosophy Technowishing Tags: Business Process Management (BPM), David McCoy, Gartner
