Everyone knows what a role is. It is obvious. We talk about them all the time. But every time I hear a programmer say the word “role” my ears pick up. The term is very often misused. How, then, might one use the term correctly and avoid the pitfalls? Continue reading
Dennis Wisnosky is working to save the financial industry and the economy. He gave a keynote on the second day of the iBPMS Expo 2013 in Chicago and touched on the Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO) and what that will mean. Continue reading
There is an article in Harvard Business Review this month about how companies are beginning to organize knowledge workers in a new way. The concept has been called a “flow-to-the-work organization” and it reflects a new way of thinking about how knowledge workers are held in relation to the company. Continue reading
The second keynote is from Tom Koulopoulos. His talk titled “The Internet of Everything, Everyone, and Everyplace” was very entertaining and included some somber concerns on how to cope with a future that we can not yet imagine. Continue reading
I am attending the IBPMS Expo in Chicago this week, and first keynote was from Jim Sinur, who presented some of the ideas behind his new book (with Jim Odell and Peter Fingar) on distributed intelligent agent oriented BPM. I included some notes from his talk. Continue reading
I have written many times about how culturally we have a tendency to want to simplify problems, and solve the separate parts, and this is reductionism. Scientific management is based on this idea, and it is one of the ideas that leads to problematic BPM implementations when your the process is truly complex. In this post I consider where reductionism cam from. Continue reading
I think it might be Ben Franklin who said “A paper bill is the worst way to get your account statement, except for all the other ways.” Or maybe not. Whatever. I still get a lot of bills on paper delivered through the (physical) mail, and here is why. Continue reading
The bane of social networking sites is the need to register one more username, one more password, and once more to fill in some sharable details. That is sooooo 2008. I am registering with a conference so I can select interesting presentations, and reminded once again how much I hate registering for sites. Continue reading
I met with a Fujitsu executive last week, and we naturally got onto the topic of software development methodology. I presented my case that it is critical that programmers know the actual customer because 90% of all decisions that effect usability are made by the lowest programmer. He countered with a story from his own experience of how a race car mechanic and driver have to work as a team. Continue reading
Is your organization running too smoothly? Is everything being handled with a minimum of fuss? Perhaps you need a ‘Business Crisis Inducer’ is a tool that causes randomized crisis events to challenge your organization. Sound crazy? It is not as crazy as you might first think. Continue reading
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