“Most certification today is pure ‘credentialism.’ It must begin to reflect our demand for excellence, not our appreciation of parchment.”
-William John Bennet
As president of ABPMP, I am often asked for my opinion about “certification” programs.
Articles by: BPMInstitute.org
Case Study: Service Based Process Architecture
Linda Gurgone is the Lead Business Process Architect in Motorola’s Enterprise Architecture team.
Lessons from the Resilient Enterprise – How Winners Build for Change
Today’s global enterprises are confronted with a wide array of unplanned disruptions, including events such as Hurricane Katrina and 9/11. International supply chain expert Yossi Sheffi will describe how a company building for change and flexibility throughout its supply chain is able to reduce risk AND create a competitive advantage in the increasingly volatile marketplace. BPM industry thought leader Alan Trefler will explain how BPM systems provide organizations with the ability to be agile in responding to the inevitable…change, planned and unplanned.
The Ins and Outs of Business Rules
In the previous article, Who, What and How of a Business analyst, we examined the role and responsibilities of an IT Business Analyst. In this article, we shall focus on the basic concepts of business rules. In the upcoming articles, we shall investigate what business rules mean to a Business Analyst and how they lead to the transformation into a Business Rules Analyst. A lot of research has been pursued by eminent experts in the field. In this article, we shall learn the basic principles of business rules.
BPMS Watch: BPM and SOA: Are the Communities Starting to Merge?
Last fall in a column called “BPM and SOA: One Technology, Two Communities” I said that the big middleware vendors pushing the BPEL standard seemed to understand orchestration as a critical piece of the SOA story but had no clue what business process management is all about.
Process Management Approach Leads to Competitive Government
Five years ago, telecommunications companies operating in Florida faced a baffling array of taxes levied at the local level. Each municipality and local governmental entity had their own tax tables and methods of collection. “As the U.S.
Interview with Brett Champlin: Chicago Preview
I spoke with Brett Champlin recently and asked him about the upcoming BrainStorm Chicago Conference(s) and what is new for 2006.
SOA Maturity Model: Compass on the SOA Journey
As we start planning our Service-Oriented Architectures, we are faced with a host of decisions such as: Where to start? How should the architecture be built? What gaps exist within the current architecture and which technologies should be used to complete these gaps? Who should be involved and what training should they undergo to be prepared? These are some of the questions that one may ask at the outset.
Organizations are all inundated with information about SOA and the steps required to create, design and implement their SOA.
Process Powered E-Gov: Does Your Agency Grok Process
Peter Fingar is an Executive Partner in the digital strategy firm, the Greystone Group. He is one of the industry’s noted experts on business process management and a practitioner with over 30 years of hands-on experience at the intersection of business and technology.
Peter Fingar is an Executive Partner in the digital strategy firm, the Greystone Group. He is one of the industry’s noted experts on business process management and a practitioner with over 30 years of hands-on experience at the intersection of business and technology. He is coauthor of the books: “The Real-Time Enterprise: Competing on Time”, just-released, and “Business Process Management: The Third Wave.”
Fingar began his presentation by pointing out that government and business are essentially similar in that they both:
Process Documentation: What is End to End Anyway?
Documenting business processes has become an important initiative for many Organizations. The advantages of identifying, understanding and evaluating key business processes to determine their effectiveness in meeting business objectives has been recognized for some time. There are many methodologies and tools available today to aid in capturing information about how a business performs its day-to-day activities in order to achieve desired efficiencies and cost reductions. A common approach integral to most methodologies is to develop an end-to-end process flow.
