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Dynamic BPM and agility

October 6, 2009

Jim Sinur presented on how companies are preparing for change and using agility as an advantage. Not just as a technology option but as a requirement for transformation. In some sectors this ability to do dynamic BPM is becoming a competitive weapon. Key issues:

how will BPM become more dynamic
what impact will SOA, web, events, governance [...]

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Business Agility Now!

October 6, 2009

Nancy Pearson, who I interviewed recently, discussed IBM’s new Business Agility Now! initiative. IBM launched Smarter Planet about a year ago, focusing on the instrumented, interconnected and intelligent organization. The initiative is being driven by the massive increase in instrumentation (with smaller things being instrumented as well as the natural world), how interconnected organizations have [...]

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Advanced decisioning for process excellence

October 6, 2009

I presented this morning on Advanced decisioning for process excellence and Sandy Kemsley wrote a nice summary over on her blog Column 2 : Advanced decisioning #GartnerBPM.
I gave the session again as a webinar and the recording is available here.
I am going to give the session as a webinar on Thursday of this week (details [...]

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Bare essentials of making rules work

October 5, 2009

Jim Sinur and Dave McCoy of Gartner hosted a quick session on making rules work at the Gartner BPM show. With only 30 minutes this was quick and dirty and the audience was overwhelmingly people completely new to business rules (though not to BPM). Dave outlined his 5 pieces of advice:

Ignore standards
While it would be [...]

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Decision management and the top 4 concerns of CIOs

September 29, 2009

Syndicated from ebizQ
I was reading an article on The top 10 CIO concerns and I was struck by the first four:

Business productivity and cost reduction
IT and business alignment
Business agility and speed to market
Business process re-engineering

It seemed to me, reading this list, that all four of these were concerns that could be addressed [...]

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Webinar: 10 lessons from implementing business rules management systems

September 29, 2009

[ November 11, 2009; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] The fifth webinar in the series. What do you really need to know when you start implementing a business rules management system? What can go wrong and what must you watch carefully? In this webinar you will learn 10 hard-earned rules for successful adoption and implementation of business rules management systems.

Claye Greene is the Principal [...]

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A reader asks about decision services with multiple answers

September 28, 2009

One of the questions I get regularly can be summarized like this: I see how a decision service works when it returns an answer but can it return multiple answers? As one reader put it:
Suppose we want to go from India to the USA. There are number of alternatives and many flights that are available. [...]

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Webinar: The Decision Model – Empowering Decision Management

September 24, 2009

[ October 21, 2009; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] The fourth webinar in the series. In order to implement Decision Management effectively, we need to be able to identify and manage the business logic (i.e. the business rules) underlying business decisions. It soon becomes apparent that classical methods of gathering and managing business rules (i.e. by natural language) do not scale to support Decision [...]

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SAP TechEd

September 23, 2009

[ October 13, 2009 to October 15, 2009. ] I am going to be attending SAP TechEd in Las Vegas. While I am mostly going to get up to speed on SAP’s support for business rules and analytics, I will also be running three expert “lounge” sessions. Two 30-minute “face-to-face networking sessions” on getting started with business rules and one such session on decisioning [...]

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All about Smart Work with Nancy Pearson

September 23, 2009

I got a chance to sit down with Nancy Pearson, Vice President BPM, SOA, WebSphere and Industry Marketing at IBM last week to talk about Smart Work and other related topics. Smart Work is one of the four major themes that are part of IBM’s overall Smarter Planet initiative – New Intelligence, Green and Beyond, [...]

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Decision Management Summit – early bird extended

September 22, 2009

I am the chair of the Summit and I am going to give …

A Keynote on Smarter Systems for Uncertain Times

A Tutorial on Maximizing the ROI of a Business Rules Investment with Decision Management

A Special Talk on Performance Management and Agility

The Early Bird rate for the Summit has been extended one extra week
PLUS there is [...]

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Webinar: Advanced decisioning for process excellence

September 22, 2009

[ October 8, 2009; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] The third webinar in the series, this one is a reprise of a Power Breakfast I am giving at the Gartner BPM Summit 2009

Straight-through processing, advanced analytics, dynamic processes, business user control and business alignment — all are make or break issues for process excellence. But are these really process issues at all? This session [...]

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Adding decision management to your BPM initiative

September 22, 2009

Syndicated from ebizQ
Last week I wrote a piece on the risks of pursuing BPM without decisioning. As promised, here are some thoughts on how to get started.

Identify your decisions
Step one is to find and name and manage the decisions that matter to your processes. Finding decisions is not always that easy, though it gets [...]

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Decision management and a decision-driven organization

September 18, 2009

Some time back I came across an HBR article called Who Has the D? How Clear Decision Roles Enhance Organizational Performance (fee for full article) and I heard from a friend today that Bain was using this approach (see this Bain article for instance Who has the “D”?) as part of building what it calls [...]

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Risks of pursuing BPM without decisioning

September 18, 2009

Syndicated from ebizQ
Inspired by this post by Vijay on Art of Software Reuse (Risks With Pursuing BPM Without SOA) I thought I would write something about the risks of pursuing BPM without decisioning – without decision management.
When BPM is pursued without pursing decision management in parallel the direct consequence is that decisions become an afterthought [...]

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Looking at code from both sides with business rules

September 18, 2009

Syndicated from ebizQ
Sharon Machlis had a great piece over on Computerworld titled Opinion: I’ve looked at code from both sides now on her experience of being a developer on a project where she was usually a user. It’s an interesting experience that she describes and I was struck particularly by a couple of comments. First, [...]

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Decision-intensive process management for .Net

September 14, 2009

My friends at InRule have an interesting announcement today – they are partnering with a SharePoint-based Business Process Management Solution called ShareVis. The combination of SharePoint with ShareVis and InRule will, I believe, help companies take SharePoint from document management to forms automation and ultimately to real process management. The combination, still in its early [...]

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Information led transformation with decision management

September 10, 2009

Syndicated from BeyeNetwork
I have been following the recent IBM announcements on analytics closely and have been struck by the increasingly decision-centric point of view being expressed. First there was the business analytics and optimization announcement with its focus on “action support” not “decision support”. The new analytic appliances with their focus on making it easier [...]

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First Look – TOA Technologies

September 9, 2009

I got a quick overview of TOA Technologies recently. TOA Technologies was founded about 5 years ago to solve “the cable guy” problem – customers waiting at home for hours without knowing when the cable guy, or any other appointment, is going to arrive. Their core idea was that they would predict, with a high [...]

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Integrating customer preferences

September 8, 2009

Syndicated from ebizQ
I was talking to an interesting company today – TOA Technologies (review tomorrow) – and as we were talking we touched on something I think it both a great idea and underrated – the use of business rules to integrate customer preferences. We all know that giving customers an ability to influence our [...]

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