Archives for October, 2011
by Jim Sinur | October 30, 2011 | 3 Comments
Elise Olding and I were chatting about how companies are making big mistakes by not paying attention to the social feedback from the collective. This can be directly applied to lessons learned for BPM as well. http://blogs.gartner.com/jim_sinur/2010/03/16/process-improvement-ideas-from-the-collective-edge/ http://blogs.gartner.com/jim_sinur/2010/07/07/got-social-processes/ http://blogs.gartner.com/jim_sinur/2011/07/04/social-bpm-is-design-by-doing-really/ Let’s analyze some of the recent headlines for visible situations that have had significant immediate revenue [...]
Category: Applications BPM Business Process Improvement Business Rules Challenges Cloud Green IT Governance Optimization Social Strategic Planning Tags: BPM, business, Business Process Improvement, Business Rules, Decision Management, events, Optimization, Process Improvement, Process Management, Simulation, Social, symposium
by Jim Sinur | October 24, 2011 | 1 Comment
One of the privileges of being an analyst is talking with clients about their challenges and issues, but I love hearing about successes as well. I am pretty fortunate to work in an area, business process management, that has a fair number of successes. I hope to share with you some of the more interesting [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: BPM, business, Business Process Improvement, Business Rules, Decision Management, Optimization, Process Improvement, Process Management, symposium
by Jim Sinur | October 16, 2011 | 4 Comments
One of the major themes the Gartner ITExpo/Symposium is around how organizations are going to stay relevant, going forward. It is our belief that companies that use leading risk indicators will outperform their competition. One of the things Gartner is saying that analytics is the combustion engine of business. The business process management team, here [...]
Category: Applications BPM Business Process Improvement Business Rules Cloud EA Green IT Governance Optimization Simulation Social Strategic Planning Virtualization Tags: BPM, business, Business Process Improvement, Business Rules, Decision Management, events, Green, Optimization, Process Improvement, Process Management, Simulation, Social, symposium
by Jim Sinur | October 13, 2011 | 1 Comment
One of the highlights of my year is when I get to chat with clients face to face. With the Symposium season upon us, I get excited about talking about real world problems that clients are wrestling with today and/or are anticipating for the future. I will be in Orlando next week and in Australia [...]
Category: Applications BPM Business Process Improvement Business Rules Cloud EA ERP Green IT Governance Optimization Simulation Social Strategic Planning Virtualization Tags: BPM, Business Process Improvement, Business Rules, Decision Management, events, Green, Optimization, Process Improvement, Process Management, Simulation, Social, symposium
by Jim Sinur | October 10, 2011 | 1 Comment
I live in Phoenix Arizona and we are known for big dust storms just before our monsoon storms hit in the summer (our best time of the year for rain). This summer we had a mile high dust storm that made the world news circuit. The reason I am bringing up dust is that on [...]
Category: Applications BPM Business Process Improvement Business Rules Cloud EA ERP Green IT Governance Optimization Simulation Social Strategic Planning Virtualization Tags: BPM, Business Process Improvement, Business Rules, Decision Management, Green, Optimization, Process Improvement, Process Management, Simulation, Social, symposium
by Jim Sinur | October 7, 2011 | Comments Off
The theme for this year was “Engineered for Innovation” with a strong sub-theme of “Software and Hardware engineered to work together”. I think the major tag line works fine with the business types and the sub-theme is aimed at the IT folks. While BPM was not singled out, Larry Ellison announced and visually demonstrated that [...]
Category: Applications BPM Business Process Improvement Business Rules Cloud EA ERP Green IT Governance Optimization Simulation Social Strategic Planning Vendor Contracts Virtualization Tags: BPM, Business Process Improvement, Business Rules, Decision Management, Green, Optimization, Process Improvement, Process Management, Simulation, Social, symposium
by Jim Sinur | October 3, 2011 | 3 Comments
Quite often process innovation is created by internal genius or an external technology push coming from technology markets (see http://blogs.gartner.com/jim_sinur/2011/09/19/the-art-of-process-innovation/ ), but quite often organizations only change when their competitors force reactive responses to better offerings and processes. Often organizations overlook competitive and non-competitive benchmarking for sources of best practices that lead to increased organizational [...]
Category: Applications BPM Business Process Improvement Business Rules Cloud EA Green IT Governance Optimization Simulation Social Strategic Planning Virtualization Tags: BPM, Business Process Improvement, Business Rules, Decision Management, Optimization, Process Improvement, Process Management, Simulation, Social, symposium
