Jim Sinur

There must be something to BPM when hundreds of executives show up to hear how BPM enables organizations to survive, thrive and capitalize. These are challenging times and the first thing that goes out of the window is travel costs. One would expect that conferences would suffer, but not BPM.
The theme of Survive, thrive and [...]

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A while back, I wrote on companies driving through their rearview mirrors See mirrors. I wrote that organizations needed to change to Intelligent Decision Management, but did not hint much at what would have to change. In order to move to a more forward looking approach, there are three things that have to be added [...]

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Based on feedback from clients and earlier surveys, I have compiled and listed the benefit themes below:
Business Agility: Faster reactive and proactive time to market
Decision Making: Test rule-based scenarios at lower cost
Revenue Opportunities: Greater product, pricing and  flexibility
Customer Satisfaction: More-customizable products and services
Compliance; Greater visibility into policy adherence

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In a changing world, the challenge that faces organizations and the IT departments that support them is the ability to change quickly. Changing business rules rapidly around scenarios becomes a crucial survival behavior, going forward. It makes no difference if these rules are in people’s heads, departmental web-sites and/or computer based systems rules will need [...]

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Why are leaders looking at processes for savings? It’s because government and business leaders know that there is money to be made in BPM. Because processes are in the critical path of business change, business processes are coming under intense scrutiny. The need for process understanding and automation will create significant business process management activity. [...]

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The traditional view of simulation in BPM is to test drive process models as they are designed and tested for business and technological suitability. Simulation pays for itself alone on this basis, but there is more
Simulation for Operating Processes
If you have a running process that happens to be in a BPM technology, simulation can be [...]

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I’m feeling guilty about not writing anything around my green tag lately, so I thought I’d share some of my latest paintings that have a modicum of green in them. I know it’s a stretch, but humor me
Vanishing Daylight Amongst the Birches

Winter Night with the Elms

Now my conscience feels better. Thanks for looking [...]

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Now that I have your attention, let’s dig into some of the myths surrounding simulation. Most people think that simulation is hard and is for those gifted with deep math skills. Today nothing could be farther from the truth. Simulation is nicely embedded in process modeling and BPM engines and pretty easy to use even [...]

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The deal bringing ILOG, a leader in the business rules market, into the IBM fold closed in January. IBM gave us a good idea as to what they plan to do with the ILOG assets. Of course, IBM will keep the ILOG revenue stream separate and the IBM leverage worldwide will add new traction to ILOG sales. Two [...]

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Last summer, Gartner did a survey of the top benefits before we hit the difficult economic conditions facing us today. The results of that survey said that BPM:
•Improves process quality
•Improves Customer Satisfaction
•Engenders Continuous Process Improvement
•Reduces Costs
•Improves the Customer Experience
•Improves Business agility
•….
•#11 – Supports Moving to SOA

The top targeted benefits have shifted to be focused on [...]

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