by Jim Sinur | May 28, 2009 | 1 Comment
As many of you know, I am a fairly new painter (around six months). I was puttering around with just taking pant to canvas based on a rough idea or a picture. The results were encouraging, but I wanted more. I searched for a methodology that would give me better results. I stumbled on the [...]
Category: BPM Business Process Improvement Green Tags: BPM, Business Process Improvement, Green
by Jim Sinur | May 26, 2009 | 3 Comments
Here in Arizona, you can still find folks prospecting for gold. Some chose to pan for gold in streams and other try to study the geological patterns and look for quartz deposits (quartz and gold tend to be found near each other). Both have been successful in locating gold. Nobody has unraveled the history behind [...]
Category: BPM Business Process Improvement Simulation Tags: BPM, Business Process Improvement, Simulation
by Jim Sinur | May 21, 2009 | 3 Comments
One of my favorite gripes is about having visibility into the progress of a process and where my instance, case and/or role are in context of the desired outcome.. If you don’t have visibility, you don’t know if things are progressing well or are stuck or worse yet in one of many error cycles. I [...]
Category: BPM Business Process Improvement Business Rules Optimization Tags: BPM, Business Process Improvement, Business Rules, Optimization
by Jim Sinur | May 19, 2009 | 2 Comments
The quest to have a business process platform to support business process management and business process improvement is just about over for the leading edge organizations, so now we will see a new set of activities for these leaders and the fast followers/followers are lining up for business process management technologies. The Challenges for the [...]
Category: BPM Business Process Improvement Business Rules Green Optimization Simulation Tags: BPM, Business Process Improvement, Business Rules, Green, Optimization, Simulation
by Jim Sinur | May 15, 2009 | 6 Comments
We are looking for the very best BPM efforts to date to crown with our BPM Excellence Awards.The difficulty will be selecting the winners amongst those that will be compelling. We are pumped about the opportunity to see what organizations have done to propel themselves with BPM. You can bet we are looking for your [...]
Category: BPM Business Process Improvement Business Rules Green Optimization Simulation Tags: BPM, Business Process Improvement, Business Rules, Green, Optimization, Simulation
by Jim Sinur | May 14, 2009 | 3 Comments
There are a couple of encouraging signs for the BPM and the business process improvement disciplines. For the first time, there is a a BPM vendor that has organically grown on pure BPM to over 200 million dollars in revenue. In addition, when I chat with the other BPM vendors, their BPM revenue is growing [...]
Category: BPM Business Process Improvement Business Rules Tags: BPM, Business Process Improvement, Business Rules
by Jim Sinur | May 13, 2009 | 9 Comments
Cloud is a compelling and high performance multi-tenant environment that promises to be an aggregator and delivery system for business processes, business services and business content in an environment that should foster innovation. There are claims that cloud-enabled BPM will be come the business operating platform for many organizations. This is certainly a topic debate, [...]
Category: BPM Business Process Improvement Business Rules Optimization Simulation Tags: BPM, Business Process Improvement, Business Rules
by Jim Sinur | May 12, 2009 | 2 Comments
One of the more frequent questions I receive is around the need for business rule technologies. Of course, the answer is “It Depends”. It depends on the frequency of rule changes, the timing for the actual rule changes, the skill level of the implementer and the impact of the changes. Rules Volatility: If you find [...]
Category: BPM Business Process Improvement Business Rules Tags: BPM, Business Process Improvement, Business Rules
by Jim Sinur | May 6, 2009 | 5 Comments
Sherry and I decided to sit through a time sharing pitch because we were interested in increasing our inventory of prepaid vacation time. We have had a good experience with time sharing and have been leveraging the time sharing experience since the 80’s. We have traded all over the world successfully. We were customers of [...]
Category: BPM Business Process Improvement Business Rules Tags: BPM, Business Process Improvement, Business Rules
by Jim Sinur | May 5, 2009 | Comments Off
The 5th of May is an important holiday for our neighbors to the south. Being that Mexico is so close to my home state of Arizona and I am, personally, always looking for a reason to celebrate, I have taken Cinco De Mayo on as an important holiday. My job will be to sink a [...]
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Category: BPM Business Process Improvement Business Rules Green Tags: BPM, Business Process Improvement, Business Rules, Green
