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BPMS Watch: BPMN’s Three Levels, Reconsidered

BPMS Watch: BPMN’s Three Levels, Reconsidered

Author(s):

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

Several months ago, I got an urgent request from OMG – the organization responsible for BPMN and other BPM standards – to give a short blurb I had written a permanent URL on my website.  The blurb was a promotional piece for my BPMessentials training called “Three Levels of Process Modeling with BPMN.” OMG proudly proclaims that BPMN assumes no particular methodology, but the notion of using it at three specific “levels” was just something I made up when I launched my BPMN course, to describe its value to different audiences.  Now OMG needed it as a “reference” for their OCEB certifi

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Is ‘Business-Driven SOA’ the way forward to SOA Success?

Is ‘Business-Driven SOA’ the way forward to SOA Success?

Author(s):

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

Why do most IT professionals when they talk of SOA talk about products not processes?

Millions of marketing dollars are spent by vendors. Consultants purport to be experts ‘delivering’ projects using SOA tools and methodologies. Yet, if SOA is successful in delivering business change why don’t we see measureable evidence of this change?

Why do most IT professionals when they talk of SOA talk about products not processes?

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Three Fundamental Prerequisites for Transforming Your Government Enterprise

Three Fundamental Prerequisites for Transforming Your Government Enterprise

Author(s):

Senior Principal, MITRE Corporation

Experience has shown that major change initiatives undertaken by government agencies seldom succeed according to plan. Too often, expectations are frustrated, budgets are over-run, schedules are exceeded, and/or programs are abandoned. Why is this story written so often, after the fact, about so many government programs? From years of working with federal agencies on some of their toughest challenges, I have found that leaders tend to underestimate the difficulty of the journeys they embark upon, at almost every stage of their more complex transformation initiatives.

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Customer Centric Behavior and the Business Architecture

Customer Centric Behavior and the Business Architecture

Author(s):

Enterprise Business Architect, Independent Consultant

What kind of enterprise are your corporate leaders building and designing for the future? Are they building and designing a functionally centric, a product centric, a process centric or a customer centric enterprise? These are questions that I frequently ask my students in the Business Architecture (BA) classes that I teach for the BPMInstitute.

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BPMS Watch: BPM Standards in Perspective

BPMS Watch: BPM Standards in Perspective

Author(s):

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

Nobody really cares about standards… until suddenly they do. When a standard reaches some threshold of adoption, a tipping point is reached. Then, if you’re not on the standard you’re proprietary. Legacy. A dinosaur. Not where you want to be.

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Are you on top of your Grid?

Author(s):

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

“Four years after the worst electric power blackout in United States history, the nation’s electric companies can now be punished if it happens again. Reliability standards for the nation’s power system quietly got teeth Monday, marking a major shift in how the U.S. electric industry is regulated. Utilities now face fines of up $1 million a day if they fail to meet any of 83 standards intended to keep the nation’s power grid healthy. But compliance was voluntary.

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CERN Leverages BPMS Tools to Become More Efficient

Author(s):

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

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research and the world’s largest particle physics laboratory located in the Franco–Swiss border near Geneva is most famous for employing the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee. Coined the “Web”, the intent was to create a platform for information sharing between scientists working in different universities and institutes all over the world.

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Collaborative Teams: a Work in Progress

Collaborative Teams: a Work in Progress

Author(s):

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

So, you’ve read all the right books on lean, agile, and process improvement. You’ve drunk enough of the “quality” cool aid to believe that if everyone else “got it” things in your department or firm would be so much better; you can actually imagine how things could be faster, better and cheaper. If only others could see, taste and implement that same vision.

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Data quality initiatives will boost your BPM project

Data quality initiatives will boost your BPM project

Author(s):

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

Data quality is to the information society what quality of materials and products are to the production society. The quality of data in a business is a deciding competitive parameter, and this recognition is currently spreading among businesses throughout the world.

The technological development has generally, along with the development of ERP systems such as SAP, made it possible for businesses to produce, modify and disseminate enormous amounts of data. These data often form the basis for decision making, financial reporting and controlling liquidity, products, clients and suppliers.

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RESTful Web Services Part II: Development and Testing

RESTful Web Services Part II: Development and Testing

Author(s):

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

 In my previous article, RESTful Web Services Part I, I introduced the key concepts behind REST and outlined an approach for designing RESTful web services. This article will cover implementing web services using Restlet and testing those web services using Apache JMeter.

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