Jim Sinur

It is a shame that most of us, me included, do not practice thankfulness on a daily basis. While the most of the world is wrestling with challenging times, we can all find things to be thankful for in our lives.
I’m thankful that BPM is flourishing as a coping mechanism to deal with these challenging [...]

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History:
In 2005, I tried to get the platform players to embrace agile infrastructure and business process concepts to no avail. IBM laughed me off the stage at an IBM fellows meeting. when I mentioned rules technologies. Oracle did not see the importance, but understood the idea. Microsoft said they had rule technology, but it was barely [...]

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The Harmonic Journey
In an ideal world, BPM at your organization moves in a steady and straight line through the stages of BPM maturity in a nice sequential manner with a dedicated and consistent effort. This means you probably have progressed from a project driven/functional focus to a coordinated program that seeks to deliver processes that [...]

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I would like to try a point counterpoint approach to the above statement. Before I move into this one, I’d like to define what a virus is for the purpose of this posting. I do not mean a mean spirited hunk of code that is designed to destroy anything and everything it touches. I mean [...]

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BPM has been used to save money and time. I expect this to continue and even deepen as we try to save more in these challenging economic times. The numbers have been consistently positive for BPM implementations. I have seen many ROIs north of double digits and some even in the triple digits, but few [...]

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There are a number of ingredients that are coming together under the BPM banner to better support the knowledge worker. Case management, dynamic processes snippets, personal skills profiles, personal preferences and unified communications are coming together to support the elusive knowledge and costly worker processes.
Unified communications knows where a knowledge worker is and what they [...]

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