Michael Poulin made an excellent post called “Why business process is always structured?” which delves into the question of why people believe that work is predictable when often it is not. He compares ACM and BPM and the illusion that makes them appear the same. Continue reading
All this talk of “Social-BPM” there must be something on the other end of the spectrum. Does this mean that “traditional BPM” is anti-social? Well, it can be, and I had that experience this week. Continue reading
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”. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
“…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…) Continue reading
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 2010 conference. The response was often surprise.
It is really quite simple: Continue reading
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 on the the next decade with three main topics: Continue reading
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 Great BPMN Debate of 2010” and her post is a very fair summary of the debate, but missing one important aspect of it: what is a typical “business professional” and what do they desire? Continue reading
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 crowd since March (see Is the Checklist mightier than the Model?). Continue reading
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 there was no BPM? Continue reading
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