My notes from first day of bpmNEXT 2015, March 30. Continue reading
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5 Opportunities in the Process Space for 2015
There are 5 key opportunities to participate in process space (BPM and ACM) in the next few months, and the deadlines are coming up, so don’t delay, and don’t miss out. Continue reading
Process Mining MOOC on Coursera
Whether you call it Process Mining, or Automated Process Discovery, nobody can deny that this field that combines big data analytics with business process is at the center of an important transformation in the workplace. Process mining is useful to kickstart the implementation of predefined BPM diagrams, and it is also useful in unpredictable case management to see what has been done and whether it is compliant with all the rules. What would you give to attend a complete, college level course on process mining? What if it was free? Continue reading
BPM Poster
Here it is, the poster on the definition of BPM, with all the terms defined and explained! Continue reading
3 Innovative Approaches to Process Modeling
In a post titled “Business Etiquette Modeling” I made a plea for modeling business processes such that they naturally deform themselves as needed to accommodate changes. If we model a fixed process diagram, it is too fragile, and can be costly to manually maintain. While I was at the EDOC conference and the BPM conference, I saw three papers that introduce innovations which are not completely defined solutions, they represent solid research on steps in the right direction. Here is a quick summary of each. Continue reading
BPM2014 Keynote: Keith Swenson
I was honored to give the keynote on the second day of the BPM2014 conference, and promised to answer questions, so here are the slides and summary. Continue reading
Business Etiquette Modeling: a new paradigm for process
The AdaptiveCM 2014 workshop this past Monday provided a very interesting discussion of the state of the art in adaptive case management and other non-workflow oriented ways for supporting knowledge work. While there I presented, and we discussed, an intriguing new way to think about processes which I call “Business Etiquette Modelling” Continue reading
Final Keynote EDOC 2014: Barbara Weber
Barbara Weber is a professor at University of Innsbruck in Austria. Next year she will be hosting the BPM 2015 conference at that location. She gave a talk on how they are studying the difficulties of process modeling. My notes follow: Continue reading
Late-Structured Processes
The term “unstructured” has always bothered me, because without structure you have randomness. When knowledge workers get things done, it is not random in any way. They accomplish things in a very structured way, it is just not possible to know ahead of time how it will be structured. Continue reading
BPM and Case Management Summit 2014
Here are some notes from this years BPM & Case Management Summit in Washington DC. Continue reading
Thinking Matters 