by David McCoy | July 31, 2012 | Submit a Comment
I haven’t blogged in a bit, but then none of you sent me flowers or chocolates, so I guess we’re even. I’m blogging today to herald my last day leading the BPM team. Before you gasp or cheer or do one of those silly dances you saw on Youtube, let me clarify. I’m not going [...]
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by David McCoy | November 4, 2011 | Submit a Comment
It’s not like you’re planning a trip to Mars, but your fancy new processes are just as alien and hostile until you’ve simulated them and refined them based on what you learn. Do it. It’s not a dark science or a play toy. It’s common sense. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15574646
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by David McCoy | October 20, 2011 | Submit a Comment
I’m working on a list of prioritized client challenges to guide the 2012 BPM research agenda. It’s a list of the usual (vendors/tools), the new hot spots (innovation potential) and the few that will fall into “not sure that’s a really big challenge” and be dumped. What is your BIGGEST challenge with BPM? I’d like [...]
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by David McCoy | August 12, 2011 | Submit a Comment
I’ve not been a fan of management theory books. I have my reasons, and you probably know that from my posts in 2008. Too many of the books on the shelf are temporal ramblings from someone who has done something noteworthy and been approached by a publisher. Many are little more than comic books for [...]
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by David McCoy | June 30, 2011 | Submit a Comment
I lost a little leveling wheel in my move last weekend. It’s a round disk that sits on the bottom of each leg of my Jesper Sit and Stand fancy-pants desk. I guess it fell off in the moving trucks (yes, plural) because we can’t find it anywhere. Technically, I can’t find it anywhere. No [...]
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by David McCoy | May 26, 2011 | Submit a Comment
On my blog, “BPM Certification” is still the #1 search term at 9.3% of all searches. If you add in the variants (BPM Certificate, BPM certifications, Business Process Management certification), you get a total of 13.2% of the searches devoted to this topic. What does this tell us: Y’all appear to be interested in having [...]
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by David McCoy | October 19, 2010 | 1 Comment
This just out… here’s the press release. And here are the Top 10, directly from the public press release. The detailed content is being released as part of US Symposium in Orlando. Cloud Computing Mobile Applications and Media Tablets Social Communications and Collaboration Video Next Generation Analytics Social Analytics Context-Aware Computing Storage Class Memory Ubiquitous [...]
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by David McCoy | September 29, 2010 | 4 Comments
Here’s a simple question, and don’t wuss out and respond with “Both, of course!” Is your interest in BPM primarily for visibility or is it for control? Visibility – Show me how things work, what I’m doing, how long it’s taking, where it might need help. Be my eyes. Control – Automate me, guide me, [...]
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by David McCoy | September 26, 2010 | Submit a Comment
I spent all Saturday night in the ER, dealing with “an issue” with my arm. During that ordeal – as I waited to be triaged, admitted, examined, billed, etc – I came to a blindingly brilliant conclusion: Just like a career in the ER, Process Improvement is a permanent career! I can spend the rest [...]
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by David McCoy | September 22, 2010 | Submit a Comment
If you like to geek out your friends with your intense knowledge of unstructured processes, then you won’t be complete until you pick up a copy of Michael Polanyi’s book, “The Tacit Dimension.” First published in 1966 and reissued in 2009, the book is a hard – perhaps even vexing – read. It quickly dives [...]
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