Speaking at Business Process Forum in October
A bit early for this, but maybe you’re already starting to organize your fall calendar. The business process track that was at the Business Rules Forum last year has grown, and become its own Business Process Forum. I believe that we need a good independent BPM conference – the ones run by the large analysts [...]
Smarter Systems for Uncertain Times #brf
I facilitated a breakfast session this morning discussing BPM in the cloud, which was a lot of fun, and now I’m in the keynote listening to James Taylor on the role of decision management in agile, smarter systems. Much of this is based on his book, Smart (Enough) Systems, which I reviewed shortly after its [...]
BRMS at a Crossroads #brf
Steve Hendrick of IDC gave the morning keynote with predictions for the next five years of business rules management systems. He sees BRMS as being at a crossroads, currently being used as passive decisioning systems with limited scope, but with changes coming in visibility, open source, decision management platforms and cloud services.
He took a look [...]
Business Rules Management: The Misunderstood Partner to Process #brf
The title of Jim Sinur’s breakfast session this morning is based on the “lack of respect” that rules have as a key component in business processes: as he pointed out, it’s very difficult to explain to a business executive what business rules do and their value (something to which I can personally attest). I’ve been [...]
BPM, Collaboration and Social Networking #brf
Although social software and BPM is an underlying theme in a lot of the presentations that I give, today at the Business Rules Forum is the first time that I’ve been able to focus exclusively on that topic in a presentation for more than 3 years. Here’s the slides, and a list of the references [...]
See me at the Business Rules Forum, Las Vegas, November 1-5
I’ve been invited to speak at the Business Rules Forum, which is taking place at the Bellagio in Las Vegas on November 1-5. I’m actually doing two speaking gigs there: A presentation on BPM, collaboration and social networking, which I’ve been presenting on for a few years and has lately become a hot topic of conversation. [...]
