Category Archives: BPM

Mining Activity Streams

In the process field, we call them “Event Streams”.  These are streams of records indicating specific things that happened at specific times.  In the Social Software world, they are called “Activity Streams”.

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Process Mining Update

There has been a surprising amount happening around Process Mining recently, notably the process intelligence workshop, the IEEE task force meeting, and some other links.

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September Wrap-Up

“…wake me up, when September ends.” – Greenday Here is a list of posts and links related to BPM 2010 and other related things from the month of September (that I never got around to including until now…)

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BPM Makes the Workplace More Stressful

Admittedly, a controversial title, but stay with me.  In the end you will see that this is a natural outcome of BPM being successful, and not any kind of flaw.  I discussed this concept with many people at the BPM … Continue reading

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BPM 2010 Keynote

I just sat through the BPM 2010 keynote speech given by Phil Gilbert which I thought was worth a quick note here. He was asked to talk on the future of BPM, but clarified that he would really just focus … Continue reading

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BPMN vs. professionals, 2.0

Last week brought us a vigorous debate about the role of BPMN, where I took the controversial position that “BPMN 2.0 is no longer for Business Professionals“.  Adam Deane collected quotes from the major contributors.  Sandy Kemsley calls it “The … Continue reading

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BPMN 2.0: no longer for Business Professionals

Jim Sinur in his post BPMN for Business Professionals: Burn Baby Burn points strongly to the conclusion that BPMN is simply not suitable for business users.  I am not surprised as this has been a topic of the case management … Continue reading

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World without BPM

We all struggle with the zillions of different definitions of BPM fostering endless discussions to find the one true meaning for the term.  In one such discussion, Thomas Olbrich, came up with an intriguing idea: what would be different if … Continue reading

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Google Wave: no effect on BPM & ACM

The question posed was, “What does the passing of Google Wave mean for BPM and ACM”?  When Wave was announced, I was personally very interested, and am sad to see its demise.  I suspect however, that Wave has made its … Continue reading

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ACM Tweet Jam Summary Part 1 of 3

We held a tweetjam on the subject of Adaptive Case Management (ACM) on July 15.  I have been on vacation since then, and only now getting around to writing about it. What a big task!  In two hours 660 posts … Continue reading

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