BPM for Small and Medium Businesses
Tom Bellinson of IT Methods looked at some of the reasons why BPM in small business (under 500 people) is different from that in larger businesses, based on some of the fundamental differences in how small and large businesses work, and therefore how they deal with process improvement. There are some advantages to looking at [...]
Bridging Process Modeling and IT Solutions Design at adidas
Eduardo Gonzalez of the adidas Group talked about how they are implementing BPM within their organization, particularly the transition from business process models to designing a solution, which ties in nicely with the roundtable that I moderated yesterday. The key issue is that process models are created for the purpose of modeling the existing and [...]
Research in People and Processes
The afternoon session of research papers focused on people and processes. From People to Services to UI: Distributed Orchestration of User Interfaces The first paper, from University of Trento and Huawei Technologies, focused on a model for distributed user interfaces, bringing together people, web services and UIs in a single tool, rather than developing process [...]
Research in Business Process Design
The research sessions have started here at BPM 2010, and I’m in the session of research papers on business process design. There are three 30-minute presentations (including Q&A) based on the presenter’s research paper; although I have the full text of the research papers, it’s always useful to hear the author’s take on it. I [...]
Handbook on BPM
Just in time for next week’s BPM 2010, Springer’s International Handbook on Business Process Management is ready to ship. It includes papers by people from both academia and BPM practice, and I’m honored to join their ranks with an article on the drivers and impacts of collaborative BPM. From my abstract: This paper discusses the [...]
