by Jim Sinur | August 31, 2009 | 3 Comments
This is a shared posting from Elise Olding and me. First of all, we want to thank all the participants who submitted entries. It was a difficult task to select the winners from the great cast of entries. We made our decisions on the merits of the BPM result without regard for technology provider participation [...]
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by Jim Sinur | August 26, 2009 | 1 Comment
I thought that title might catch some attention. You know when you a have good hunting dog when it finds game you don’t expect. Some of the BPM Award submissions did the same for us. We found one situation where the benefits gleaned by an organization were used to help those that were less fortunate. [...]
Category: BPM Business Process Improvement Green Tags: BPM, Green
by Jim Sinur | August 25, 2009 | 1 Comment
Seriously, I have taken the step to start tweeting, so you can follow me as JimSinur on Twitter. I plan on tweeting on things that I have either learned for the day or some trend that you might find interesting or not I always wanted to be a “Parrot Head”, listen to Jimmy Buffet songs [...]
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by Jim Sinur | August 24, 2009 | 3 Comments
We have selected the BPM award winners and we are in the process notifying the winners, so we can put out a press announcement this week. We have an award for “The Best BPM Journey”, “The Best BPM Bottom Line” and “Out of the BPM Box Delivery”. While I can’t tell you who the winners, [...]
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by Jim Sinur | August 19, 2009 | 2 Comments
I remember when my oldest daughter was first learning to talk. Her first phrase was “Witch Cucumber; the Check In the Egg”. We all, of course, laughed ourselves silly at the meaningless phrase until we realized that she was saying “Which Comes First: the Chicken or the Egg?” Now that IT is realizing that business [...]
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by Jim Sinur | August 17, 2009 | 6 Comments
If you are a CFO, that title just made you spit up on your desk. Trees and people; who cares? It’s all about the money honey. “Go and hug a tree, Jim”. The good news is that these things are not mutually exclusive goals even at today’s commodity price points that are being held down [...]
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by Jim Sinur | August 11, 2009 | 9 Comments
I don’t know about you, but I hate calling in for service from any of the companies that service me. I either have to select from some stupid menu or talk to a robot voice that is hard of hearing and pretty unintelligent. Unless you know the magic sequence of buttons or a secret code, [...]
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by Jim Sinur | August 10, 2009 | 2 Comments
Peter Fingar seems to think so as exhibited by the YouTube link below. Keep in mind that Peter has written a book on the subject and you will get a little marketing of his book in the slides. I found the slides to be helpful myself despite the marketing, so I am passing on the [...]
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by Jim Sinur | August 6, 2009 | 4 Comments
We are seeing cost savings efforts playing out before our very eyes and BPM is front and center in these efforts. There are additional side benefits such as time to market and agility benefits as the tempo of business changes. In addition, BPM is starting to change the people interactions going forward, but I think [...]
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by Jim Sinur | August 5, 2009 | Comments Off
How to Use Process as a Competitive Weapon with Jim Sinur, Research VP August 12th at 12:00 noon (EST) Today many organization are actively using BPM to save money and survive, and this is certainly an appropriate use of BPM. There are another set of organizations that look at down times to make their organizations [...]
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