David McCoy

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 can’t you [...]

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Digital Natives vs Digital Immigrants: A common dividing point. One of my friend’s kids just joined the Facebook crowd. Her first post was, “I got a Facebook.”  Interesting choice of verb, “GOT.”  I use that verb when I pick up milk and bread. She used it when she picked up an account. Even more interesting [...]

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I have some books left over from my college days. Since 1978, I have opened my Pascal programming book about 10 times. 9 times were simply to see if I had left any dollar bills as book marks.  My “Legal Environment of Business” book from 1986’s fun class of the same name sits unopened since [...]

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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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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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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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I am taking on the Gartner position of RSD (Role Service Director) for the Business Process Improvement (BPI) role under the Gartner for IT Leaders product set.  This changes none of my other responsibilities; I am still the Team Manager for the BPM team.  However, this will mean that you will see a lot more [...]

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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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“The vendor’s court-appointed receiver suggests…”
“Before the server exploded, we erased all the…”
“We don’t know how your entire budget was…”
“The new owners need you to provide a full…”
“The bus company feels awful about that horrible…”
“Who knew the Teamsters allowed process experts to…”
“The doctor says only half of your team will…”
“You should have known that class 6 [...]

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Today, I attended a conference entitled, “Computing at the Margins.”  The subject was simple:  How can computing be used to help those on the margins of society?  It seems arrogant and audacious to define some group as “being on the margin” only if you are stuck in the Frankfurt school of political correctness.  For those [...]

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