Jim Sinur

I had the pleasure to speak at the Business Rules Forum in Orlando this week and I spoke on Increasing the IQ of Processes for Profitability. Due to the increased interest in cost reduction and revenue generation, this topic seemed appropriate for the times. With organizations looking for good ROI with low investment, the combination [...]

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It’s a funny thing about changing rules. Now that we have had a chance to play the 20-20 hindsight game around the real estate meltdown while observing the ripple effects that bad mortgages have had on the financial markets worldwide, we realize that there are lessons to learn and apply around business rules. It started [...]

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In the whirl of the economic water spout we are in the moment, it’s hard to look past survival. However, there are those crafty organizations, while, taking out costs and time out of their operating costs in the short term, who looking to create innovative processes that win the hearts and minds of their customers. [...]

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Believe it or not, organizations seem to be driving through their rear view mirrors looking at past results and history to guide their decisions. While this is a valuable approach, it doesn’t cut it in changing environments. Today, BI efforts generally look at past results even though some of the BI vendors support predictive analysis. [...]

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I find that almost every business and IT professional that I run into these days mentions the “A” word during the course of any discussion. Agility seems to be on everyone’s mind with the economic dramas being played out in front us. Not only are people wondering about reactive agility, but proactive agility in light [...]

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I was listening to the opening session at the Gartner Symposium, here in Florida, and there was a big theme around how to deal with the economic uncertainties we are seeing at the moment. One of the speakers said that it was time to delete applications as these are times to trim down and look [...]

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Traditionally automated process discovery is thought in terms of determining the process model implied in a systems flow, but it is much more than that today. In some cases process discovery can watch the way people interact with systems, applications on their PCs, with applications, in portals and in BPM processes. Through some thoughtful instrumentation [...]

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I had the pleasure to speak at the BPM Think Tank in Chicago earlier this week and I spoke on the Economics of BPM. Based on what’s happening on the economic front these days, I managed to pick a good topic. You will have to ask others how I fared, but from reading Column 2 [...]

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I know I have been kind of rude, in that, I haven’t told you much about myself despite your loyal readership. Let me clear up this issue now. I know I always find it interesting to know about the author I am reading at the moment. Of course, you can read my biography on Gartner’s [...]

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