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Who are the Luminaries in BPM?

by David McCoy  |  January 24, 2009  |  Submit a Comment

Simple question:  Who are the luminaries in BPM? Tell me who you see as industry visionaries.  Who are the light-bearers?  Be they academics, consultants, vendors, pundits or bandits, just let me hear from you.  I have my own little list, but there’s room for more.  Richard Welke and I were soaking up the buffet ambiance [...]

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Cost Cutting, Cost Savings, and Cost Optimization – Call on BPM

by David McCoy  |  January 22, 2009  |  Submit a Comment

Jim Sinur has an upcoming webinar on BPM and its economic impact.  Click below for more details CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS, JUST LIKE HE SAID ABOVE If you missed Elise Olding’s webinar, you missed a good show.  Don’t miss Jim’s.

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Do You Have a BPCC? Mangling Cartoon Quotes to Make Point.

by David McCoy  |  January 19, 2009  |  Submit a Comment

Elise Olding has picked up some nice press in Computerworld UK for her prediction that 50% of BPM Programs will fail.  Interpretive notes: The failure potential is at the program level and not at the project level.  The main cause of death will be failing to create a credible Business Process Competency Center (BPCC). We [...]

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The Business Rule Management Tutorial: Thanks for your Input!

by David McCoy  |  January 13, 2009  |  Submit a Comment

In an earlier post, I ask for the topics that you would like to see in a Business Rule Management tutorial.  Jim Sinur and I have now finished the tutorial and Jim will present it at our upcoming BPM conferences in London and San Diego. The presentation looks really nice!  To close the loop, I [...]

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BPM and Cost Management – Hot for 2009

by David McCoy  |  January 8, 2009  |  Submit a Comment

Everyone knows that BPM can reduce costs.  So, BPM should be a hot topic and investment area during 2009′s brutal reign, right?  Well, we at Gartner think so.  Elise Olding, Jim Sinur and I are going to be driving a full-court press on BPM and Cost Management this year and we are all excited about [...]

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RFID, CEP, BPMT and BAM

by David McCoy  |  November 24, 2008  |  2 Comments

At the IBM software summit, I saw a demo of what Airbus is doing with RFID, CEP, BPMT and BAM.  For those who don’t know the acronyms: RFID – Radio-Frequency Identification CEP – Complex Event Processing BPMT – Business Process Management Technologies (as opposed to BPM which we use for the management discipline) BAM – [...]

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Notes from IBM Software Analyst Connect

by David McCoy  |  November 19, 2008  |  Submit a Comment

I will be live-blogging from the “IBM Software Analyst Connect” event taking place today and tomorrow in Stamford, CT.  Disclaimer: My own interests will color what I write about, and the opinions I express are mine, not Gartner’s.  No surprise there – go back and read my disclaimer.  Also, since this is being done in [...]

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Does BPM Leadership Vary by Geography?

by David McCoy  |  November 17, 2008  |  4 Comments

Well, it’s sort of true.  Our survey data (n= 338) shows that “the business side” in both Europe and Asia will be statistically more likely to lead BPM projects than will be US business-side staff.  The differences are substantial; this is not a “margin of error” thing.  But, no matter how you look at it, [...]

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18 Years to Update an Operations Manual

by David McCoy  |  November 13, 2008  |  Submit a Comment

We at Gartner talk about BPM’s focus on “continuous improvement.”  We really like to talk about agility and rapid process change.  So, what happens when your process change time is measured in years… or decades?  I heard a presentation today where the speaker was describing the complexities of interstate resource negotiation.  He said in this [...]

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Educating the Next Generation of Process Experts

by David McCoy  |  November 12, 2008  |  2 Comments

I guest lectured tonight at Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business – my other alma mater.  The topic – naturally – was business process management, and for over two hours, I subjected these undergrads to the history of BPM:  How the market of 1999 – 2003 emerged from the roots of application integration and [...]

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