Here it is, the poster on the definition of BPM, with all the terms defined and explained! Continue reading
BPM Poster
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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
Opening Keynote EDOC 2014: Wil van der Aalst
Wil van del Aalst, the foremost expert in workflow and process mining, spoke this morning on the overlap between Data Science and Business Process, and showed how process mining is the super glue between them. What follows is the notes I made at the event. Continue reading
Collective Adaptive Systems (CAS)
The BPM 2014 conference, Sept 7-12, has been moved from Israel to Eindhoven Holland (because of unrest in the middle east) and I will be giving a keynote on Wednesday Sept 10. There will be an interesting workshop on Business Processes in Collective Adaptive Systems (BPCAS’14) on Monday, associated with a group called FoCAS (Fundamentals of Collective Adaptive Systems). Continue reading
Minimum Viable Post
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Organize for Complexity Book
Niels Pflaeging’s amazing little book, Organize for Complexity, gives good advice on how to create self managing organization that are resilient and stable. Continue reading
The third era of process support: Empathy
Rita Gunther McGrath’s post this week on the HBR Blog called Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History has a lesson for those of us designing business process technology. The parallel between management and process technology might be stronger than we normally admit. Continue reading
Thinking Matters 