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Archives for August, 2010


BPMN for Business Professionals: Burn Baby Burn

by Jim Sinur  |  August 30, 2010  |  28 Comments

BPMN for business professionals is just not up to a business level of need. Some folks think that BPMN is good enough for IT and it should be good enough for business professionals. I think the former is true, but the latter is way off the mark.    BPMN really stands for “Business People May [...]

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It’s Time for BPM Vendors Ante Up with Better Visualization

by Jim Sinur  |  August 25, 2010  |  4 Comments

Over a year ago I wrote about BPM and how it leveraged visualization in better ways than traditional software and was gaining followers because of it. Well that was then and this is now.  BPM needs a facelift as the dawning of compelling interfaces and visualization is starting to take root.   Sure BPM makes [...]

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Top Five Ways to Sneak Up on BPM

by Jim Sinur  |  August 16, 2010  |  6 Comments

Many organizations are being careful in demanding times and do not want to necessarily stick their heads out and take large and expensive risks. Not that BPM is real expensive, but folks I talk to are in a prudent mode when it comes to capital outlays. I would like to explore here the top five [...]

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Can Process Intelligence be Effective Without Process Platform Intelligence?

by Jim Sinur  |  August 11, 2010  |  Comments Off

There is a famous saying that goes something like this “No man can be an Island”. There is wisdom in this saying for people, for sure, but I think the same can be said for processes. Recently I have been blogging about process intelligence and why it can and should be pursued. In those blogs, [...]

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The Warm Summer Sun Inspires

by Jim Sinur  |  August 10, 2010  |  Comments Off

As many of you know I live in Phoenix Arizona where the temperatures rise to over 100 degrees (40C) this time of year, so we are a bit trapped during the middle of the day for out side activities. Fortunately, Gartner keeps me busy during the week, but the weekends are tough during the day. [...]

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The Triple Threat of Process Intelligence

by Jim Sinur  |  August 5, 2010  |  3 Comments

In a previous posting I tried show that process intelligence(PI) is different than business intelligence(BI) and has different but parallel outcomes.See http://blogs.gartner.com/jim_sinur/2010/07/21/process-intelligence-and-business-intelligence-do-they-share-more-than-word/ In my last posting I tried to show that PI is about adjusting to now and quickly pointing out ways to improve operational performance to keep organizations going in today’s troubled waters for [...]

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