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Thoughts  on SOA and the Cloud

Thoughts on SOA and the Cloud

Author(s):

Editorial Director, SOAInstitute.org

The cloud is all the rage this year, so not to be left out, I thought I better write something about it. Once you get past the ‘cheaper, faster, better’ hype, one of the common themes is the apparent synergy between the cloud and SOA. Well duh! The cloud is all about making IT resources available as services, and Service Oriented Architecture is all about creating solutions with service building blocks. In this column Let’s start looking at this with some definitions:

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Reinventing “Lean Thinking”

Reinventing “Lean Thinking”

Author(s):

President, EELI Group Inc.

Has Lean delivered its full promise to date? Observing the evolution of the “Lean Thinking” concept in the past 30 years in North America is very interesting. A few years back,  the (yet another new) term “LEAN” was coined and brought forth, which I found fit perfectly in describing the main thrust of the philosophy and what the driving methodology was intended to achieve. 

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Balanced Approach to Process Metrics

Balanced Approach to Process Metrics

Author(s):

President and CEO, FMT Systems Inc.

As business process management understanding matures within organizations, new challenges will arise. Sometimes it helps to know how other disciplines have addressed similar issues as it avoids the “reinventing the wheel” syndrome. For the last decade forward thinking organizations have conducted reviews of their business processes and taken steps to streamline them, i.e., minimize the “handoffs” between business units. For publicly traded companies, Sarbanes-Oxley has increased the complexity of business processes and prevented the streamlining of certain processes.

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A Business Executive’s View of Business Architecture

A Business Executive’s View of Business Architecture

Author(s):

President, TSG, Inc.

Business architecture is a game changing discipline that allows a business to establish a common vocabulary, shared vision, and level of transparency that facilitates initiatives ranging from mergers and acquisitions to deployment of new strategic business models. Even as business architecture success stories emerge, the message has been slow to penetrate the executive suite. This article discusses why business executives should strongly consider business architecture as a way of overcoming many of the complex obstacles inherent in today’s dynamic business environment.

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Future with BPM: Cost Vs Benefits & Strategies

Future with BPM: Cost Vs Benefits & Strategies

Author(s):

VP - Strategist, BNYMellon

A Prominent factor of international business today is its strategic direction.  Global firms are competing with a wider variety of business and operational strategies and with more complex operational strategies today compare to 12 years before.

This makes more challenging for global operation to deploy same model for its internal business where economic and market conditions are different. This can resolved by providing a unique national strategy and dedicated modification of key activities for each major country; this facilitates customizing the business around each countries market.

A global business and operational strategy world is considered as signal market where corporate goals are common. This brings international operations to tough spot of performing as stand-alone entity.

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The Decision Model: Breaking Barriers in Real-World Projects

The Decision Model: Breaking Barriers in Real-World Projects

Author(s):

Managing Partner, Knowledge Partners International LLP

The number of successes with The Decision Model is escalating.  Organizations are using The Decision Model to solve a range of business challenges and opportunities including some we did not expect.  Therefore, this month we summarize three real world projects to illustrate how organizations are using decision models and how quickly project teams are delivering them.  

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SOA and Service Catalogues

SOA and Service Catalogues

Author(s):

Principal Consultant, J Moe Associates

A recent survey suggests that two thirds of large organisations are looking to implement a service catalogue in the next few months.  However, the same survey also stated that less than half could articulate what benefit the service catalogue would be to the business.  Looks like we are in a classic technology hype cycle!

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The Business Architecture Core Artifact

The Business Architecture Core Artifact

Author(s):

Enterprise Business Architect, Independent Consultant

Just about any serious Business Architecture (BA) discussion these days will include some reference to a model or artifact within the BA approach.  This article will discuss what the author believes is the “core artifact” of the Business Architecture.

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Why Process Sounds Stupid

Why Process Sounds Stupid

Author(s):

Faculty Member, BPMInstitute.org and President, i4 Process

Are you ready to get started improving work flow but just don’t know how? Do you want to build a process based culture? Do you want to buy a BPM suite? These are a few of the questions that organizations ask at one time in their development.  But when to address these questions and how to address them depends on your purpose and company culture. And they can’t all be addressed at once.

This article is in two parts:

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Creating Value With BPMN: A Business Users Perspective

Creating Value With BPMN: A Business Users Perspective

Author(s):

President, Perfect Pages

There has been a lot of debate lately about the usefulness of BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) to business managers. Some say that it’s too complicated and unintuitive and that it’s better suited to IT people. Others say business managers must spend time learning to read BPMN notation to find it more useful. Then there are those who say they use a sub-set of BPMN symbols to simplify models so that business managers can understand them. What’s more, little is said in the debate about the process modeller’s skills.

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