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 [...]
Category: Business Rule Management (BRM) Philosophy Rabble-Rousing and General Hoopla Tags: Business Process Management (BPM), Business Rule Management (BRM), David McCoy, Gartner
by David McCoy | April 16, 2009 | Submit a Comment
I’m doing some basic data gathering from several sources – typical work of an analyst. In this blog posting, I’m looking for some current anecdotal evidence around BPM investment analysis mechanics – nothing fancy. From our BPM survey, we know that cost savings are critical BPM measures of success. I’m interested in the mechanics of [...]
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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 [...]
Category: Business Process Management (BPM) Philosophy Rabble-Rousing and General Hoopla Tags: Business Process Management (BPM), David McCoy, Gartner, Philosophy
by David McCoy | March 20, 2009 | Submit a Comment
When we were all rolling in those filthy-rich, blissful days of Internet summer, all around us, people were saying, “The old rules don’t apply!” Bricks-and-mortar are dead, clicks are the new currency, the old economy is dead, long live the new economy. The market only goes up, income only goes up, house prices only go [...]
Category: Philosophy Tags: Business Process Management (BPM), Business Rule Management (BRM), David McCoy, Gartner, Philosophy
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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by David McCoy | March 17, 2009 | 13 Comments
Today, my wife advanced another major step in her quest to be ordained as a Methodist minister. The amount of preparatory work for this big day was similar to what I have seen with consulting firm senior managers who are up for partner and with professors being considered for tenure – it’s that serious. Ordination [...]
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by David McCoy | February 27, 2009 | Submit a Comment
As a kid, I played a mean game of neighborhood softball. You know the story: 1960s to very early ’70s, red mud fields, wooden bats, marginally-stitched softballs, bases made out of left-over building material, neighborhood friends, neighborhood bullies, no uniforms, shoes optional. Yeah! You played it too? Do you remember how we determined which team [...]
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by David McCoy | February 8, 2009 | Submit a Comment
There have been some great comments on my process visibility post. Since I am about to head to the Georgia Tech – Maryland basketball game, let me simply post my own working model on Process Visibility and come back later to elaborate. This model is useful for analyzing your process visibility needs by examining the [...]
Category: Business Process Management (BPM) Tags: Business Process Management (BPM), David McCoy, Gartner
by David McCoy | February 2, 2009 | 7 Comments
Should all processes be visible to all process participants? Nope. While it may sound like BPM heresy, some processes should remain behind closed doors for certain participants who will be involved in the process. The facts follow… I lunched with an architect a while back at one of our BPM conferences. She made it clear [...]
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by David McCoy | January 26, 2009 | Submit a Comment
How are you doing your cost cutting? Are you using a methodology? Does the idea of a methodology sound outlandish? Are you cutting like a surgeon or are you cutting wherever you see something – anything – that looks extraneous? A methodology would make a difference, wouldn’t it? I have one of our research teams [...]
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