Archive for March, 2008

What’s the Big Deal about Agility in BPM?

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

One of the biggest differentiators between workflow and BPM, besides real-time visibility through activity monitoring, is agility. Agility is defined as the ability to think and draw conclusions quickly to exercise nimble movements easily.
This could be in response to real-time monitoring and/or policy changes needed by management and/or behavior changes required by clients. BPMS technologies […]

Content is Cool

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Co-authored by Tom Donnelly and Jim Sinur.
Many people think that content is just a fact of life that needs to be captured, stored and managed. This is not that cool, but some organizations are proving this wrong. To that end, we challenged ourselves to find some cool content enabled process applications.
Cool Today:
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The AIIM Conference in Boston

Friday, March 7th, 2008

I attended the AIIM Conference earlier this week and walked away thinking that it was a conference of extremes. It was certainly large in scope and had plenty for all, but seemed to have a vendor driven “take-it-or-leave-it” attitude.
 Just like companies that provide standard transactions and expect customers to “just deal” with them, AIIM pretty […]

Prevalent Process Patterns Enable BPM Benefits Differently

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

I believe there are three common patterns of workflow that thrive under the banner of BPM. Each of these patterns deliver productivity in different ways, consequently the methodologies, tools and techniques differ around these patterns.
While these patterns may be used in combination with each other in trying to enable a certain type of business process, […]