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Archives for November, 2010


There is Plenty to be Thankful for These Days

by Jim Sinur  |  November 24, 2010  |  1 Comment

I have to say that I am happy to be healthy and employed these days. I hope you feel the same way and more. Here is to hoping my U.S. friends have a great turkey day

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Policy/Rules Management: Finding the Balance

by Jim Sinur  |  November 23, 2010  |  3 Comments

Today we have unprecedented agility built into our processes, applications and organizations. Managing this agility is a journey we are all on at the moment as more agility is being afforded on a daily basis via the leverage of business rule engines and/or parameters. The balancing point will not be easy and some behavior may [...]

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Goal Driven Processes: The Future Target of BPM

by Jim Sinur  |  November 16, 2010  |  6 Comments

As organizations mature in their use of BPM, they will find the need to more directly and automatically tie process activity and outcomes to corporate performance. The first steps in BPM are around process efficiency and effectiveness. The next steps revolve around continuous improvement and require a significant amount of watching to keep the improvements [...]

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Policy/Rules Management on the Cheap: Does it Work?

by Jim Sinur  |  November 10, 2010  |  5 Comments

Here in Cannes for the 2010 Symposium 2010 where there are 3500+ IT and business executives are prowling the sessions and “one on ones” for useful information and advice, I have sensed a number of repeating questions around business rule management. The most common question is around the use of simple rules management leveraging spreadsheets [...]

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Announcing the Gartner BPM Awards for 2011

by Jim Sinur  |  November 4, 2010  |  1 Comment

   2011 Gartner Business Process Management Excellence Awards http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/na/business-process/excellence-awards.jsp Awards will be presented to winners and award finalists at the Gartner Business Process Management Summit, April 27-29, 2011 at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, in Baltimore, Maryland. Award Evaluation Criteria: Business results are the first requirement for any successful BPM program. The preferred threshold is that [...]

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Capturing Tribal Knowledge: A Big Challenge

by Jim Sinur  |  November 2, 2010  |  5 Comments

Like it or not, we are faced with a significant challenge of pulling expertise into a new generation of employees and technologies. It makes no difference if we have to teach our people to do the jobs left behind by a generation slowly moving to the back seat of our organizations or creating intelligent processes [...]

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