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
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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
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
A Scenario for Discussing Personal Assistants
There is an important role for a type of intelligent agent we might call a personal assistant. What are personal assistants? What new do they bring to mix? What effect will they have? This post explores the boundaries, and introduces a scenario which might be used to discuss the effect of agents. Continue reading
AdaptiveCM Events for 2014
2014 will be a bustling year for events around Adaptive Case Management, so get these on your calendar: Continue reading
Smart Process Apps result from SOA Stratification
Hopefully you have heard the term “Smart Process Apps” (SPA) attributed to Forrester Research. What is it? Is it just marketing hype? It is something real to be concerned about? Here is an explanation I have given that seems to resonate with people. Continue reading
One Common Definition for BPM
Business Process Management (BPM) remains the subject with a thousand faces. The lack of a well accepted definition is the single most harmful thing to the industry. Among a hundred articles there will be dozens of differing definitions of BPM. Without a single common understand of BPM, we can’t make a single conclusive statement about what BPM does or does not do, how you might or might not use it. This post is the result of hundreds of hours of sorting, sifting, discussing, analyzing and crafting. Continue reading
Should we focus on the negative?
The WfMC and many other who help have been trying to highlight the positive examples of both BPM and ACM by collecting use cases, judging the best, and publishing in compendia. It was Socrates who said there is value in a focus on the negative: he would rather be refuted than to refute another because being rid oneself of evil of harboring false beliefs is better than ridding it in another. Continue reading