I had written a blog a few weeks ago on the importance of Metrics and KPIs for BPM initiatives. The applicability of this could be seen in the recently released 2012 BPM Global Survey by Capgemini, in which it was disclosed that 61% of...
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Information driven Process Management
One defining shift that marks our society today is the rate of change and its democratization. Information flows in real time through ordinary people using simple channels like social media or mobile. The Jasmine Revolution in the Middle East showed...
Read moreThree Ways to Check the Success of my BPM Initiative - Measure, Measure and Measure!
One thing which never ceases to surprise me is how little thought is paid by organizations to defining the metrics/Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) by which they will define the success of a BPM initiative. Even when metrics are defined, and...
Read moreWhy SAP HANA is a breakthrough technology
I have been working on SAP HANA for long time. First call with SAP’s R&D was in 2010, when HANA was yet to be named and they were still calling it Hasso DB (for Hasso Plattner, co-founder of SAP). Now I come to think of it, even if...
Read moreThe benefits of using business rules
In my last posting I discussed the presence of three major kinds of information: procedural, declarative, and structural. The first one is indisputably crucial for building process centric applications using business process management (BPM) suites....
Read moreBPM - Jugaad Style
Getting Things done – The Jugaad WayIn the 1990s, farmers in northern India, who could not afford to buy motor transportation, improvised a cheap, simple multi-use vehicle by leveraging miscellaneous parts including a diesel engine which was...
Read moreWhy use BPM when I have a Modelling tool?
Non-traditional’ BPM IndustriesRecently we have had a number of meetings with experts from industries which are traditionally not big users of BPM – such as manufacturing, energy & utilities and retail - who have been reaching out to us,...
Read moreThe business value of BPM: Is BPM as good as coffee?
“So actually, BPM prepares your coffee every morning?” This is the first comment I heard from the audience at a recent BPM selling presentation I attended. Why did the client ask this question? Was he just joking?Clients care about business value...
Read moreThree different aspects of business process modeling
When designing business processes solely by using process notation languages like business process model and notation (BPMN), I often feel a little uneasy. Some simple details caused my models to be far more complex than expected. Some other...
Read moreNeed a new perspective on data management? How about 'Less'?
It is impossible not to know; the current amount of data and expected growth is overwhelming. More and more companies are acknowledging this, facing the problem / opportunity head on. In order to prevent the effect of data overload versus information...
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