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
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
Here is a slidecast version of the talk I gave at BPM Next in March. In 14 minutes it explains the core ideas of antifragility and how learning organizations are antifragile. Mixed in are some surprising details about adaptive systems. This presentation will help explain why a traditional model-and-automate approach is the wrong thing for an innovative, learning organization. Continue reading
The goal of process management is to improve process. Let’s say you are successful at putting in place a process improvement practice. Can there be too much of a good thing? Experts are saying that it can be. Continue reading
Alberto Manuel pushed the boundaries of business process support in his new conference in Lisbon Portugal on April 18, 2013. It was not the typical rehashing of “this standard, that formalism, see the life-cycle, marvel at the sophisticated architecture diagrams”. Instead, he set out to challenge the audience to think not about where we are today, but where this is all taking us, and what might it become. Continue reading
A collection of notes of presentations from bpmNEXT. Continue reading
Today’s question: do you care about simulation of business processes? If you do, you probably should be aware of the recent developments of BPSim. Continue reading
Peter Schoof ran a discussion today on whether BPMN is compatible with ACM or not; this was the subject of my talk at the ACM workshop. I responded by giving the justification for this position from my talk and the subsequent discussion. Continue reading
Steve White gave a keynote speech at the BPM2012 conference this morning on the history and development of BPMN. He has been the driving force for BPMN from the beginning, chairing the development committee for many years, and he is still driving this forward today. He gave an excellent overview of the origins and development of the notations. My interest picked up when we started to talk about case management Continue reading
BPM Awards notice and few important links for the end of August. Continue reading
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