Jim Sinur

I had someone ask me today, what the three greatest hurdles facing BPM in the near future? I was able to rattle off three of them real quickly and he was grateful for the answer. I walked away scratching my head trying to figure out if there were more and which one was really the [...]

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It is rare to have an activity that not only cuts costs for survival, but can also grow value simultaneously. There is a difficult balance between growing value for constituents (customers, partners, employees, vendors) and reducing costs and doing more with less that is demanded by this economy. There is a mind-set, out there, that [...]

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Did you ever try to find your favorite flavor of candy in the midst of many others? This is what it is like to find business events of interest. There is lot of interest around complex events processing (CEP) today as organizations look for conditions that might signal conditions in the context in which they [...]

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There is a business design decision that occurs pretty early in the life of a process. It may be a deliberate decision or not. In most cases it is not even considered, but there will be a time in the future that this will become an important step to allow organizations to adjust to respond [...]

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As BPM evolves, it will head towards more collaborative processes that take into account better human interactions that serve to help knowledge workers. Social networking is a growing area for human interactions. BPM is starting to incorporate social networks into the human capital processes. One organization I talked to gets this and is applying the [...]

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Many of our clients are asking where to start with BPM. Strategically, we advise to work on a large scoped end to end process that is important to your organization after a try with something smaller in scope to build confidence, but the economic reality for those organizations that are trying to ride out the [...]

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Business Process Model interoperability is a desired target of organizations and/or value chains where there are multiple technology solutions at both the design and execution levels. BPMN has become a ubiquitous core representation standard that process modeling and process execution vendors tend to embrace and extend. Recently there has been a rise in the use [...]

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Many organizations struggle to attack end to end processes from the top down during normal economic times, but today it is even tougher with the pressure to cut costs quickly. It makes justifying an attempt to do a large scope process almost impossible. There is also a danger of doing multiple BPM projects from the [...]

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The longevity and impact of your process efforts can make a difference on where you aim to link up with desired business outcomes. While the ROI for BPM can be high and the benefits are quite proven in the case studies that I have observed, it’s not always apparent to business leaders that focusing on [...]

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