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 | 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 | June 24, 2009 | Submit a Comment
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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by David McCoy | June 17, 2009 | 6 Comments
I don’t see Business Process Automation being used that much any more. Maybe I just don’t read the right articles, but it seems that BPM is the preferred term. Well, I am finding that BPM means too many things to too many people. Some see it as the act of geeky technical implementation while other [...]
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by David McCoy | May 16, 2009 | Submit a Comment
Just so you know, my entire life does not revolve around humorous blog postings. As I have said before, I keep my deep research for the paying gentry. It only seems fair. To shed some light on that side of my life, here’s a heads-up on some work we just concluded. I just led a [...]
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by David McCoy | April 28, 2009 | Submit a Comment
I know some really smart patent attorneys who would be willing to speak at one of our BPM conferences. They could speak on the legal aspects of business processes: murky patent rulings affecting processes, protecting process IP when dealing with BPO and other external providers, protecting your own process innovations, etc. This is not normally [...]
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by David McCoy | April 28, 2009 | Submit a Comment
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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by David McCoy | April 17, 2009 | Submit a Comment
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 [...]
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by David McCoy | March 24, 2009 | 2 Comments
This past weekend, I willingly participated in one of the most painful processes on the planet – I went looking at new cars. The weather was warm, my Saturday meeting was boring, and I was near car heaven. So, I went looking. Man, do I hate the car looking-testing-sniffing-buying process. Even though most of the [...]
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by David McCoy | March 19, 2009 | 2 Comments
I’m a card-carrying fan of The Three Stooges. Yes, I’m male… so we know that my admiration is genetically-wired, but it’s still admiration. Late last night, when I couldn’t sleep, I watched some pristine new releases of classic Columbia Stooges shorts and couldn’t help but wonder: “What if The Three Stooges had been cast in [...]
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