Archives for November, 2009
by Jim Sinur | November 25, 2009 | 3 Comments
It has been a demanding year. If you were fortunate enough to have a job, the demands of keeping it most likely caused stress. If you don’t have a job, the stress is even more painful. I started the year by saying that I was happy to be on the green side of the grass [...]
Category: BPM Business Process Improvement Business Rules Green Optimization Simulation Tags: BPM, Business Rules, Green
by Jim Sinur | November 24, 2009 | 5 Comments
Last week I had a “one on one” with one of the active Chinese service providers. He was frustrated dealing with justifying the use of BPM to the Chinese Government and Businesses. He said that he was almost ready to give up on BPM. I wasn’t real sure if he was playing me and really [...]
Category: BPM Business Process Improvement Tags: BPM
by Jim Sinur | November 18, 2009 | 19 Comments
PBS is about orienting scenarios and policies around the “seek, model and adapt” cycle. Gartner is putting a fair amount of wood behind the PBS arrow and it just makes sense that BPM will play strongly to support PBS. BPM supports the kind of agility necessary to adapt to shifting policies based on strategy changes [...]
Category: BPM Business Process Improvement Business Rules Green Optimization Simulation Tags: BPM, Business Rules, Green, Optimization, Simulation
by Jim Sinur | November 11, 2009 | 5 Comments
Today processes are getting smarter in understanding how to parcel out work to process participants based on work loads, roles, experience and skills. I expect that this sophistication will continue to develop as organizations get better at linking workloads with incoming work and smart utilization of process resources including their workforces. A new dimension is [...]
Category: BPM Business Process Improvement Green Tags: BPM
by Jim Sinur | November 4, 2009 | 2 Comments
I had the pleasure to speak at the Business Rules Forum in Las Vegas this week as the opening keynote. I spoke on the linkage of Patterned Based Strategy (PBS) to Business Rules Management (BRM) and Business Process Management (BPM). The audience seemed to be challenged to start thinking how to link the grass roots [...]
Category: BPM Business Process Improvement Business Rules Tags: Business Rules