Things happen. Are you prepared?
Unexpected events happen. Things don’t go as planned. Accidents, faulty equipment, property damage, safety violations, public safety threats, and personnel incidents are just a handful of events that...
View ArticleUncovering Process Excellence
Achieving process excellence is possible. To do it you can start by bringing together the top performers within your organization to capture what it is that makes them good at what they do. This isn’t...
View ArticleAchieving Operational Excellence
In my post last Monday, I discussed that if you leverage enterprise architecture (EA) disciplines and solutions during the business process design phase of your business process management (BPM)...
View ArticleDoing More with Less, the Smart Way
A few weeks ago I was paging through an issue of Mother Jones and the article, “All Work and No Pay: The Great Speedup” caught my eye. The story discussed how more and more, managers are asking their...
View ArticleMetastorm and Microsoft meet in the clouds with M3
Designed to bring modeling to the masses, OpenText’s Metastorm M3 is now even more accessible as a cloud-based application on Microsoft’s Windows Azure Marketplace. To be included, M3 had to undergo...
View ArticleMobile BPM: Connecting People to Process Wherever They Are
In an increasingly more mobile society, work is not completed only in the office – it is often done on-the-go using a mobile device. Unsurprising to most, a study conducted by Morgan Stanley indicated...
View ArticleHow to Start a BPM Initiative: A Lesson from Early Adopters
Business process management (BPM) initiatives are growing in popularity because thousands of organizations have proven the measurable value BPM can deliver at a lower cost and in a dramatically shorter...
View ArticleThink Big: Extending BPM Across Your Organization
In my blog post last month I covered a few of the lessons learned by early BPM adopters on how to begin a business process management (BPM) initiative. Based on many early BPM successes, we have seen...
View ArticleImpacting Business with Enterprise Architecture: What the Future Holds for EA...
Cliché as it may be, I can’t stop myself from turning the page on the calendar of a new year and turning my mind to my personal goals for the year. Naturally, many organizations have a tendency to...
View ArticleQ&A Series: The Value of EA and BPA
In November and December, Gartner released the Magic Quadrants for Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Business Process Analysis (BPA) respectively. We thought we’d discuss some of Gartner’s observations...
View ArticleQ&A Series: The Future of EA and BPA
Today I’m continuing my Q&A series on frequent questions asked about enterprise architecture and business process analysis tools. Over the past few months there has been a lot of chatter around the...
View ArticleQ&A Series: The Evolution of EA
Next up in my Q&A series on EA, I am going to address how the EA market is changing and what vendors are doing to support user’s new expectations. Question: What are some of the ways that EA is...
View ArticleCould Anyone Else Use an Extra $600,000?
I am supplementing my Q&A series on the Value of EA & BPA with a wonderful article published on January 30th about one our customers, Chubb Insurance, written by Madeline Weiss, Society for...
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