Jim Sinur

We have selected the BPM award winners and we are in the process notifying the winners, so we can put out a press announcement this week. We have an award for “The Best BPM Journey”, “The Best BPM Bottom Line” and “Out of the BPM Box Delivery”. While I can’t tell you who the winners, [...]

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I remember when my oldest daughter was first learning to talk. Her first phrase was “Witch Cucumber; the Check In the Egg”. We all, of course, laughed ourselves silly at the meaningless phrase until we realized that she was saying “Which Comes First: the Chicken or the Egg?” Now that IT is realizing that business [...]

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If you are a CFO, that title just made you spit up on your desk. Trees and people; who cares? It’s all about the money honey. “Go and hug a tree, Jim”. The good news is that these things are not mutually exclusive goals even at today’s commodity price points that are being held down [...]

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We are seeing cost savings efforts playing out before our very eyes and BPM is front and center in these efforts. There are additional side benefits such as time to market and agility benefits as the tempo of business changes. In addition, BPM is starting to change the people interactions going forward, but I think [...]

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How to Use Process as a Competitive Weapon
with Jim Sinur, Research VP
August 12th at 12:00 noon (EST)
Today many organization are actively using BPM to save money and survive, and this is certainly an appropriate use of BPM. There are another set of organizations that look at down times to make their organizations more competitive. This [...]

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Most economists would agree that gross domestic product (GDP) is the benchmark for country comparisons for strong economic progress. I don’t think that anyone would argue that an increase of GDP is good thing and better than average growth compared to group of benchmark countries is even better. The emphasis on GDP lift or growth [...]

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I’m lucky enough to talk to a number of organizations and there seems to be a trend towards expansive use of business process management. A number of BPM vendors are knocking the cover off the ball when it comes to revenue growth even in the worst of times. Is this a temporary effect because everyone [...]

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I would say that most folks buy BPM to save money and/or time. This is the initial justification. Those that are more enlightened, leverage processes for better business goals such as simulating resource alternatives, managing the customer experience and supporting a strong set of value chains. There are also those that want to use process [...]

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I am receiving more calls from organizations that are concerned about how quick things change in the world and how quickly organizations are forced to respond quickly. Some of them describe the environments they are in as “punching in the dark”. You can’t see where to land your best business punch. In light of environmental [...]

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Have you ever noticed how exciting and flourishing organizations hardly ever last long in light of history? It’s rare that organizations grow big and endure with a positive following of constituents. It’s really hard to fight keeping a good culture that clients and employees enjoy while growing large and successful. I would maintain that it’s [...]

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