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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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 been “dealing” with a stunning social networking site. I say “dealing” in that it keeps “crapping out,” throwing off Java errors, stack errors, database write errors, net connection errors, etc. The site says, “Sorry… we are down” way too often. Sometimes, it just eats your post. Other times, it acts like a wayward [...]

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I will be posting personal ramblings on Twitter. At least, I think I will.  I might actually want my life back at some point…
Until then:
@DavidWMcCoy
Yep. It’s true. I Tweeted from 9/12 to 9/17 and found it to be of little value to me on a personal level. I cannot imagine that I want people [...]

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I have a vision for the most wonderful mashup. Maybe someone has already done it. If so, tell me.
Imagine mashing up Facebook, LinkedIn, and Second Life into an application that lets you recreate neighborhoods from your past.
Go back to 1978. Recreate your small town neighborhood in Second Life. For each of your neighbors, you [...]

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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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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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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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I imagine you’re getting tired of my BPM analogies, but I can’t help it.  Everywhere I look, I see things in one realm that I translate to others.  This is the curse of analogical thinking.  So, here’s another.
It’s been getting warm in Atlanta, but it was especially cold last night.  In the middle of a [...]

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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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