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Cloud Community Eases The Path To BPM For Business Users

Cloud Community Eases The Path To BPM For Business Users

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Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

IBM BPM BlueWorks is cloud-based community with resources to help business leaders link strategy and execution. Users can tap into content and tools that support any stage of process analysis — from learning about BPM to collaborating with the community, experiencing BPM and optimizing processes. At each stage, users have access to pre-built BPM content, processes and contributions from BPM experts and users worldwide. BPM BlueWorks is available at no-cost, making it easy for any business to get started with BPM.

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Are You Set Up To Manage Process Change?

Are You Set Up To Manage Process Change?

Author(s):

Research Director, MWD Advisors

When the idea of BPM as we understand it today first began to gain currency (when Smith and Fingar published their book “Business Process Management: The Third Wave” in 2003), the distinction that was clearly made between BPM and its predecessor, Business Process Reengineering, was that BPM explicitly recognises that business processes change over time, and seeks to help organisations enable and drive continuous change through the lifecycles of processes.

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The Process Professional: An Independent Review of Ascentn’s AgilePoint

The Process Professional: An Independent Review of Ascentn’s AgilePoint

Author(s):

Consultant, The Process Geek

In a continuing series evaluating the tools used by Business Process practioners, this article looks at Ascentn’s AgilePoint. Criteria for evaluation are ease of use, a short learning curve, and good collaboration features.

AgilePoint is a full-featured BPM suite. Ascentn distinguishes their market as one of “people and culture, not technology.” After looking into their products, I understand this to mean their focus is on the process practitioner.

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Business Decisions and Rules

Business Decisions and Rules

Author(s):

Managing Director, Business Decision Management, Allegiance Advisory Group

Several years ago I was asked to be part of a panel discussing business process and business rules at one of the BrainStorm conference stops. The panel included James Taylor – noted thought leader and the man who coined the term “Enterprise Decision Management”. I had had the pleasure of talking with James on several occasions prior to this panel but found myself doing a double-take when he said “the dirty secret is that business analysts don’t really care about the rules”. Blasphemy! Isn’t that why we’re all here? Isn’t that what we do?

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Vetting Business Architecture (BA) Approaches

Vetting Business Architecture (BA) Approaches

Author(s):

Enterprise Business Architect, Independent Consultant

This is the inaugural year for the BusinessArchitectureInstitute.org with its recent launch this past spring. The growth of interest and the demands for information surrounding Business Architecture (BA) have increased significantly over the past few years. BrainStorm BA conference attendees and BA training class students have benefited from seeing a new approach emerge for the enterprise. Hopefully, the reader has participated in one of this year’s BrainStorm events and learned of the many opportunities associated with the Business Architecture.

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SOA and Cloud Computing

SOA and Cloud Computing

Author(s):

Principal Consultant, J Moe Associates

Cloud Computing is an emerging style of IT delivery in which applications, data, and IT resources are rapidly provisioned and provided as standardised offerings to users over the web in a flexible pricing model.

At a recent conference where I presented on the current state of Cloud Computing, I was pleasantly surprised at the level of genuine interest given the current low investment situation in which most companies find themselves.

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Cloud Computing – or Whatever You Call It

Cloud Computing – or Whatever You Call It

Author(s):

Faculty Member BPMInstitute.org, Founder/CEO of Stratiza, Stratiza

Organizations are moving applications and infrastructure to servers on the Internet at an increasingly rapid rate and Cloud Computing – or whatever you call it – is changing the way people access information as well as they way they work and play. That is making the term ”Cloud Computing” more ubiquitous. Yet, as often happens with emerging technology waves, it is also making the term more confusing and vague.

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Case Management Strategies and Best Practices: Taking traditional BPM way beyond conventional workflow, routing and collaboration

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Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

If you are a corporate executive or business process manager interested in effecting positive change and gaining control of your company’s core business process in 2009, then this Business Roundtable is right for you.

In this dynamic session, Pallas Athena will show how Case Management approaches are changing how companies look at typical BPMS solutions. Case Management is not new but can have an immediate positive impact on your company, your employees and your financial bottom-line.

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Research Brief: Making BPM Pervasive

Research Brief: Making BPM Pervasive

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Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

If the discipline of process management, improvement and optimization is so valuable, why is it not more pervasive in the fabric of companies? What might need to happen to make it so pervasive? One answer: Embed it everywhere and make it easy to obtain its value. Embedding BPM discipline and its enabling technology throughout a company results in the benefits of process management becoming accessible to everyone. Some form of process modeling, automation, monitoring and reporting can then be done by all employees rather than a select few “process experts”. Continuous process improvement is then supported through instinct, experience and observation rather than just through formal analysis. Process skills become more broadly internalized and practiced as a fundamental work habit. A critical partner in the objective of embedding BPM is the Independent Software Vendor.

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Migrating to an Enterprise Service Bus – It’s worth the effort to do it right

Migrating to an Enterprise Service Bus – It’s worth the effort to do it right

Author(s):

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Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

Migrating to an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a bigger decision than many companies realize. It creates the opportunity for central management and access points for all the services available in the enterprise. When determining the need and the method for enabling an ESB for services, there are several important considerations. The ESB can act as a simple access point in terms of acting as a proxy to hosted web services; it can orchestrate calls to many web services through languages like BPEL, and it can also house the web service code itself.

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BPMS Watch: The DI Mess

Author(s):

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

BPMS Watch readers know I am a big fan of OMG’s Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) 2.0, which has passed its first approval hurdle and is now in the Finalization Task Force stage. A major reason is that for the first time, BPMN has standardized the schema for XML interchange of process models.

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Business Architect Job Description

Business Architect Job Description

Author(s):

Business Architect Executive, Independent Consultant

I am often asked to describe the role of the Business Architect; the role is new enough that most Resource Managers do not have a job description on file. Of course, the answer depends on the context within which the question is asked. Sometime I describe what the Business Architect “does.” Other times I describe what the Business Architect “accomplishes.” Yet other times the inquirer really wants to know what “skills” the Business Architect should possess.

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Objective Business Process-Based Enterprise Metrics Against Chaos

Objective Business Process-Based Enterprise Metrics Against Chaos

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Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

Enterprise cannot thrive and compete without objective standard metrics measuring its performance. After all, if metrics are not objective, they are of no use at all. This statement sounds like an axiom. Not for everybody, though.

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The Power of Abstraction

The Power of Abstraction

Author(s):

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Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

The power to abstract is fundamental to innovation. When ideas are scarce, a fresh viewpoint makes all the difference. Abstraction is also a hierarchical process, and that perfectly fits the needs of the innovator facing complex problems requiring system solutions. The Abstraction Ladder

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Testing the Waters: Starting a Business Architecture Practice

Testing the Waters: Starting a Business Architecture Practice

Author(s):

President, Strategic Value Partners

Many organizations are in the process of starting or considering whether they should be starting a Business Architecture practice. But most are still working to decide what they practice really looks like. Starting a new practice area is never easy and the risks that a new practice might not succeed are high. To make sure that your organization’s Business Architecture practice doesn’t fall victim to this risk it is important to have a plan for how to grow your practice.

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Transforming the Enterprise: SOA + DM

Transforming the Enterprise: SOA + DM

Author(s):

Managing Director, Technology Blue, Inc.

Today’s business challenges are consistently increasing in number, frequency and complexity. Addressing these challenges requires a level of agility that has not been technologically attainable in the past. However, innovative approaches and technologies such as Service-Oriented Architecture and Decision Management are now enabling companies to better connect, organize, manage and enable their organizations.

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Aligning Business Process Management, Service-Oriented Architecture, and Lean Six Sigma for Real Business Results

Aligning Business Process Management, Service-Oriented Architecture, and Lean Six Sigma for Real Business Results

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Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

Lean Six Sigma and business process management have much in common. Both methodologies use iterative improvement and design techniques to deliver financial and performance benefits through better managed and optimized processes. Download this free comprehensive 52 page IBM Redguide to:

  • Realize the value of business process management
  • Understand how SOA enables BPM and Lean Six Sigma
  • Learn about the think big, start now steps
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Achieving Purpose and Flexibility in Service-Oriented Design: Approaches with Use Cases and Service Taxonomies

Achieving Purpose and Flexibility in Service-Oriented Design: Approaches with Use Cases and Service Taxonomies

Author(s):

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Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

Over the past decade, we have learned that the challenge of building service-oriented solutions is less about technology and more about solving real-world business problems. Enterprise architects realize that any solution must revolve around an organization’s business processes, IT infrastructure, policies, and standards, and it makes sense that many aspects of service design will revolve around those key areas.

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