Jim Sinur

Processes are quite often the first place exceptions show up in an organization. These exceptions might indicate a need to either trigger a pre-planned scenario or initiate more scenario planning. If these processes are agility enabled and/or unstructured, organizations can use these same processes to respond to emerging conditions.

Watching for Strong Signals (Proactive Style)
Processes that [...]

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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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There seems to be a debate brewing over the use of simulation in an up front manner to ensure the deliverables of a process effort are baked in and tested before the “go live” date versus just iterating your way to a better model. This is an interesting topic to look at given the pressure [...]

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There is an age old debate about keeping logical models in synchronization with the physical implementation models. There are those that think it is a waste of time and money to synch-up models and there are those that believe that the logical models should be the link between strategy, architecture and actual implementation. Let’s examine [...]

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Our San Diego BPM conference is next week!  The London BPM conference – a few weeks ago – turned in the highest “usefulness” score ever for any Gartner EMEA conference.  If you missed London, you want to hit San Diego.
Elise Olding, one of the chairs, has asked me to let everyone know about our use [...]

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A number of you may still have a throbbing head from your celebration last night (St Patrick’s Day). For those of you in that select group, I have an Irish answer. It is a peaceful Irish landscape that you may lose yourself in and forget about the headache.

It is also a way for me to [...]

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There are obvious benefits in making business policies/rules explicit and easily changed via accompanying quick-change processes. The apparent benefits revolve around faster reaction to competitors and markets, as well as quick response to management and collaborative tuning. There are more subtle opportunities to get ahead of the game and anticipate customer demand, thus creating the [...]

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While I believe that business process modeling is a core business competency because allows business folks to identify quick saving hits and design higher productivity processes, it doesn’t have to be just manual. One can leverage Automated Business Process Discovery (ABPD) in parallel with manual process modeling efforts or as a sole stand alone activity. [...]

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As more organizations are looking to save time and money by having better processes, the residual of most of these efforts is a target process model. Typically process models have the essence of productivity secrets along with organizational differentiation. How are we treating these assets?

Process Models as Analytical Assets:
Some organizations document their current and target [...]

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The results are in – the BPM conference held in London received stellar feedback from the conference participants. Despite the challenging economic conditions, we achieved our forecasted attendance of 300 attendees.
http://blog.gartner.com/blog/bpi.php?itemid=4242
If you are looking for a quick synopsis of the theme survive, thrive and capitalize, please refer to this posting:
http://blogs.gartner.com/jim_sinur/2009/02/25/the-gartner-euro-bpm-conference-draws-300-in-london-in-a-down-economy/

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