These are exciting times. Business Process Management Suites (BPMSs) are becoming increasingly mature, and we are witnessing the emergence of the BPMS Center of Excellence (CE) in a number of large Fortune 1000 organizations. These are also challenging times. We are bombarded with confusing messages when it comes to the methodologies, tools, and overall culture that need to be developed within an organization to realize the full potential of the BPMS CE.
January 5, 2005
Dr. Setrag Khoshafian
Business Process Management (BPM)
Digital Transformation (DX)
Agile Business Analysis (ABA)
Analytics/Big Data
Application Protocol Interface (API)
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Cloud Computing
Internet of Things (IoT)
Robotic Processing Automation (RPA)
Articles by: Dr. Setrag Khoshafian
Business and IT Alignment: Is it for real?
BPM is touted as the technology that will finally bring business and IT together. Not that we haven’t tried to do this before. For instance, many people thought object orientation would do the trick since it tried to model the real world as closely as possible. Did it deliver? To a certain extent, but not quite. Primarily, it ended up as a productivity tool and paradigm for IT (with sometimes questionable success), not the ‘be all’ and ‘end all’ for modeling and executing business requirements.