What a great blog over at HBR. I agree with most everything Brad Power discusses. In a recent installment he tackles a question often overlooked. The title speaks for itself: When Is Process Improvement Strategically Important? He starts with the assertion that, “Process improvement programs that do not expressly target competitive advantage are doomed to …
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If you missed it, here’s the Gartner BPMS Magic Quadrant for 2010, freshly published October 18th And a Link to the full document: Gartner 2010 BPMS Magic Quadrant.pdf
I’m a long time BlackBerry user and recently switched to Android. My trackball died, the phone was scratched up, and BB did not offer with my carrier some of the love I wanted, so I looked for an alternative. First let me say I am disappointed that BB has been slow to keep up with …
Good to find out this morning that most organizations have already thought about and reached a conclusion similar to mine that process improvement is an operations responsibility. According to Forrester, only about 22% have process improvement report to IT:
Interesting thoughts from Ann All of IT Business Edge on a topic I’ve been passionate about before: Is the CIO the Right Person to Champion Process Improvement? I support any movement toward process stewardship and appreciate Ann taking on this cause. No doubt, the CIO has a good high-level perspective and organizational clout and is …
Interesting current research on SharePoint from AIIM: SharePoint Strategies and Experience. Among other items of interest, Analysis on pg 19 shows 65% of users plan to add or have added on BPMS functionality and 30% plan to or have added Case functionality from 3rd party vendors.
As I work to prepare the agendas for the fall schedule of the Denver chapter of the Association of BPM Professionals (ABPMP), I thought it would be timely to step back and define BPM. First, let’s get the acronym expanded correctly. I still hear some say BPM is Business Process Modeling or Business Performance Management. …
I love this stuff. Gartner just released their Top End User Predictions for 2010. All kinds of food for thought in this. Among other things, I’m going to have to add another category of costs to my ROI analysis for Carbon. Over all, they predict technology is becoming intrinsic to every aspect of society, not …
This interesting article from CMSwire summarizes a new Forrester report titled SharePoint and BPM — Finding The Sweet Spot. They reach a similar conclusion as in my What is SharePoint post regarding using it for BPM or an application framework: that while SharePoint does a lot of things well, it becomes brittle when you try …
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Since they knew you wanted to know, Gartner is just out with their list of Cool BPM vendors. These are vendors that are innovative, interesting, and have or will have a business impact on the future of IT. Interestingly, none of the established players make the list. Who did? This from CMS wire: BizAgi, based …
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