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Understanding Innovation: What Exactly is Innovation, and how does Innovation Happen?

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BPMInstitute.org
Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

Unless a company can innovate, it will be left behind in the brave new world of total global competition. But, what exactly is innovation, and how does innovation happen? These are the most important business questions of our times.

Unless a company can innovate, it will be left behind in the brave new world of total global competition. But, what exactly is innovation, and how does innovation happen? These are the most important business questions of our times. Join Peter Fingar for the Inaugural Round Table of our dedicated Innovation “section” on BPMInstitute.org.

Build your SOA: Process and Methodology, Part I

Author(s):

BPMInstitute.org
Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

Introduction

SOA projects tend to be large initiatives with a lot of risk and potential reward associated with them. The Return on Investment (ROI) on a SOA project is sometimes very hard to quantify (and thus hard to sell), which brings about the need for a solid process and methodology to ensure the success of an SOA project.

A SOA is a set of tools, technologies, frameworks, and best practices that enable the quick and easy implementation of services.

Key Components of SOA

Key Components of SOA

Author(s):

BPMInstitute.org
Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

I’m excited to be joining the team of contributors to the SOA Institute. In my first article, I’ll provide my definition of SOA and describe what I think are the key components of an SOA. You will see that I take an enterprise view of SOA.

The Compliance Journey – Balancing Risk and Controls with Business Improvement

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BPMInstitute.org
Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

Vince Sumpter has over 20 years of experience in Performance Management, data warehousing, and related areas and sees a synergy between process management, performance management, and controls transformation. The new regulatory environment demands compliance, but most of the present efforts are manual and specific only to the rules with little regard to how the changes could improve the business. Sumpter sees process, performance, and controls all coming together to give new value to the enterprise.

Sumpter says there is a lot of buzz now about Sarbanes Oxley (S-O).

BPMS Watch: Standardizing Management of Process Performance

BPMS Watch: Standardizing Management of Process Performance

Author(s):

BPMInstitute.org
Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

I recently attended an event where experienced BPM vendors, analysts, academics, and user organizations came to discuss what needs to come next in terms of technical standards, software capabilities, and overall business value from business process technology. The event was hosted by OMG, the standards organization behind the Business Process Modeling Notation standard used for process modeling and, increasingly, for business-driven process design.

BPM is Art as Well as Science

BPM is Art as Well as Science

Author(s):

BPMInstitute.org
Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

The release of the Academy Award nominations last January might seem to have little to do with business process management. But it does. In many ways, movies are the quintessential process industry.

Changing Perceptions – How EII Missed the Boat on SOA

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BPMInstitute.org
Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

In the technology world, there is a lot to be said about perception, and how perception defines your reality. You can perceive a market one way, only to change your point of view slightly and realize that the real target market for a class of technologies is quite different from where those technologies are actually being sold. Unfortunately, that change of perception often occurs too late to make a difference. A perfect example of this phenomenon is Enterprise Information Integration, or EII. EII is a specific segment of the data integration market that was gaining some re

Nucleus Research Report – webMethods Delivers Real SOA ROI through webMethods Fabric

Nucleus Research Report – webMethods Delivers Real SOA ROI through webMethods Fabric

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Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

Want Examples of Real Results with SOA? Read On.

Adopting a service-oriented architecture (SOA) enables companies to shorten IT project cycles, improve IT agility, and better align their IT practices with overall company strategy while gaining the tactical returns from integration.

Nucleus Research found customers adopting webMethods Fabric

to support an SOA strategy were able to leverage IT alignment and agility to increase market share, build strategic partnerships, increase revenues, and improve customer service.

Analysis: Isn’t that for smart people?

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BPMInstitute.org
Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

“Analysis is the difficult part of a business improvement project”. “Analysts are really smart people that are hyper intelligent” and “analysis can not be trained”. Those are some of the preconceptions project teams have to fear the analysis work that needs to be done on a process improvement project.

None of these are true. First of all many people confuse analysis with all those complex statistical tools that, for example, six sigma makes you believe you should apply.

Is Your Business Process Model Earning Its Keep?

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BPMInstitute.org
Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

Sandra Lusk has over 20 years experience in systems design and development working with utility, transportation, logistics, insurance and banking organizations in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Wales. She is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and is currently President of the Association for Business Process Management Professionals for the Portland Chapter.

Lusk says a process model is a vehicle for understanding how things work.

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