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 [...]
Category: Business Process Management (BPM) Business Rule Management (BRM) Tags: Business Process Management (BPM), David McCoy, Gartner
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 [...]
Category: Business Process Management (BPM) Technowishing Tags: Business Process Management (BPM), David McCoy, Gartner
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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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.
Category: Business Process Management (BPM) Tags: Business Process Management (BPM), David McCoy, Gartner
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 [...]
Category: Business Process Management (BPM) Philosophy Tags: Business Process Management (BPM), David McCoy, Gartner, Philosophy
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 [...]
Category: Business Process Management (BPM) Business Rule Management (BRM) Tags: Business Process Management (BPM), Business Rule Management (BRM), David McCoy, Gartner
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 [...]
Category: Business Process Management (BPM) Technowishing Tags: Business Process Management (BPM), David McCoy, Gartner
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 – [...]
Category: Business Process Management (BPM) Tags: Business Process Management (BPM), David McCoy, Gartner
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 [...]
Category: Business Process Management (BPM) Tags: Business Process Management (BPM), David McCoy, Gartner
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, [...]
Category: Business Process Management (BPM) Tags: Business Process Management (BPM), David McCoy, Gartner
