Why is it so hard to incent our companies or teams to do anything innovative? Something tangible that makes a difference to the top or […]
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Outsourcing in an increasingly complex world
Pressure on margins is driving organizations to increasingly rationalize and externalize supporting functions as they search for more efficient and flexible delivery approaches.
Continue readingBPM over promised and under delivered
One Saturday night the other week I was typing away on a book that I’m working on (probably called The new instability. How cloud computing, […]
Continue readingA prediction: many companies will start shedding IT architects in the next six to eighteen months
Business is intensely competitive these days. Under such intense pressure strategy usually breaks down into two things: do more of whatever is creating value, and […]
Continue readingMichelangelo’s approach to workflow discovery
Take any existing workflow — any people driven business process — and I expect that most of the tasks within it could best be described […]
Continue readingWhat is innovation?
What is innovation? I don’t know, but then I’m not even sure that it’s an interesting question. The yearning so many companies have to be […]
Continue readingInnovation linkage
I gave a talk on innovation at Chisholm tonight in their Business Innovation Seminar Series, and promised to provide links to some of my references. […]
Continue readingBusiness is like a train…
The following analogy popped up the other day in an email discussion with a friend. Running a business is a bit like being the Fat […]
Continue readingBPM is not a programming challenge
Get a few beers into a group of developers these days and it’s not uncommon for the complaints to start flowing about BPM (Business Process […]
Continue readingSecurity theater and the value of information
There’s an interesting post over at Bruce Schnier’s blog where he discusses where security did, and didn’t, work with the Christmas underwear bomber incident. As […]
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