Jim Sinur

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Let’s Leverage Process to Cross Cultures:

by Jim Sinur  |  February 21, 2012  |  Submit a Comment

Recently it dawned on me that processes seem to traverse cultures in ways that language can’t. We would all pretty much agree that art and music appeal to the human in us all and tends to communicate at a level that linguistics doesn’t. There is a parallel between processes and art and/or music. The Thesis: [...]

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Time to Market Product Configuration with Business Rules: Success Snippet

by Jim Sinur  |  February 14, 2012  |  Submit a Comment

Today organizations can’t deliver great products fast enough to meet client demands and competitive pressures. To make matters worse, new products have to hit the ground running without flaws. We live in a demanding world that is getting more demanding; not less. Business rules can be leveraged to quickly configure products and services quickly and [...]

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Gartner BPM Summit in Baltimore: The Early Bird Gets the Worm

by Jim Sinur  |  February 9, 2012  |  Submit a Comment

You can get the early bird special of $300.00 off, if you act now. Budgets are fresh and you need process innovation for revenue generation and cost optimization. Don’t Think about it too long. Check it out !  http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/na/business-process/ This opportunity ends on March 2nd, so don’t get caught posing   See the link for [...]

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Success Snippet: Managing Work Complexity with Process

by Jim Sinur  |  January 30, 2012  |  2 Comments

A common challenge that faces organizations is how to match right people to the work on the plate at any moment in time. Because many of the work items that hit BPM are long running in nature and requires a varied skillset to complete, the complexity of doling out and dynamically adjusting work loads is [...]

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Success Snippet: Intelligent Business Operations; Leveraging the iBPMS for Mass Personalization

by Jim Sinur  |  January 23, 2012  |  2 Comments

In a past success snippet on Intelligent Business Operations (IBO), I shared how linking an iBPMS to the “internet of things” through visible and intelligent tagging . See http://blogs.gartner.com/jim_sinur/2012/01/10/success-snippet-intelligent-business-operations/   This time I want to share a story about configuration and personalization. The industry is healthcare again, but there will be other industries for future posts. [...]

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2012: The Year of Intelligent Business Operations (IBO)

by Jim Sinur  |  January 2, 2012  |  5 Comments

Because of business pressures, we can’t just do things the same way anymore. Organizations have to increase their situational awareness, sharpen their decisions, and quickly respond with goal directed adjustments and results. I expect to see the advent of more IBO supported by an intelligent business process management suite(iBPMS) starting with leading edge organizations and [...]

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2011: A Year in Review for Me

by Jim Sinur  |  December 29, 2011  |  Comments Off

Boy, last year went faster than ever, but it is one I want to put in the rear view mirror as I had a challenging year personally. However, BPM was still on the grow with the emphasis on mobile, social and cloud. Next year looks to be exciting with the emergence of the intelligent BPMS [...]

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Success Snippet: Business Rules for Hyper Time to Market

by Jim Sinur  |  December 20, 2011  |  1 Comment

I like to call this one” T2M squared” because of the leverage applied to gain and maintain speed. This organization provides a rating service that can be customized and leveraged by other organizations. This means they offer several versions of standard online ratings that can be customized for each provider(their clients)which, in turn, can be [...]

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Transformational Change: Not by Pixie Dust

by Jim Sinur  |  December 19, 2011  |  Comments Off

I received a friendly note from one of the early process practitioners in the process industry, Andrew Spanyi, this weekend. He pointed out a cover article he penned (I would guess keyed in, but penned sounds cool ) for the December 2011 issue of Strategic Finance magazine. I found it to be quite good, but [...]

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Success Snippet: Mobile BPM Leveraged for a Quality Experience and Increased Revenue

by Jim Sinur  |  December 12, 2011  |  3 Comments

This is another in the success snippet series to let folks know about successful BPM implementations. This time the industry is retail and the benefits grew beyond the initial plan to increase cross marketing and bettering the customer experience to yielding higher revenue. This retail organization is in over 50 countries with over 15,000 retail [...]

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