Good Decisions Make Great Business Processes. Decision making is an important aspect of a business. The ability to take timely and informed decisions is an important contributing factor to the success of any business process. The decisions are driven by underlying business rules. Ability to define and manage these business rules are critical for effective […]
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We often tend to think of BPM as a process improvement methodology, or in terms of the technology to manage process execution. But at its core, BPM is really a Management Paradigm. BPM is a complete view and understanding of the business as a processing system that must be managed in order to efficiently and
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A system is a complex set of components working as a cohesive unit towards a unified set of results. A system is understood in terms of what it produces, whether it is a be wins for a sports team, energy for a nuclear reactor, movement for a car, or products/services for a business. Complex systems
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In BPM development, we have all witnessed the inevitable tension between “the good” process, versus “the perfect” process, and this is when it comes down to implementing Business Process Management (BPM) solutions. As a general observation, businesses are hyper-focused on perfection (the perfect process), and in-turn developers move towards the inevitable path of developing those
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Sometimes developers and businesses are so focused (as they should be) on the functionality that the software provides they, they tend to forget about maintaining the application after installation. Software companies and businesses alike need to take notice of the importance of having an admin console friendly interface for their application. The ongoing support of
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Now that the New Year is upon us, it is time to set our resolutions. What could be a better resolution than becoming lean? I am not referring to the lean where you pretend to go to the gym for 2 weeks and then give it up, but instead using lean methodologies to remove non
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Hashtag time… #BigData. #Mobile. #Social. #Rules. #HistoricalReporting. #PredictiveAnalytics. #ComplexEventProcessing. #Portals. #Solutions. #InternetOfThings. Some of the hashtags above are trending, and some were either trending long ago or long before Twitter, Google+, or Facebook came into existence. Regardless, all of them have their respective places in today’s modern enterprise, and all of them can be valuable
BPM Core Competencies Read more
In observing a new business architecture initiative within an organization, we’ll notice that the motivation behind this initiative is typically driven by some issue or a “pain point” identified by the senior management. These “pain points” become apparent after a realization that some capability is no longer adequate to get the organization to its target
Business Architecture as Value Proposition Enabler Read more
As BPM practitioners we often hear of a high level of failed initiatives among the organizations that took a continuous process improvement path. This perceived lack of success is observed in the outright failure to implement BPMS (Business Process Management System) projects and/or institute a BPM practice as part of the organizational transformation efforts. Many
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Much ado has been made about the inclusion of rules engines within modern BPM suites, but all rules engines aren’t created equal. Some rules engines are similar in concept to what used to be commonly called “expert systems” and are as a result both more powerful and more complex than the rules engines that are simply
BPM and Rules Engines Read more