Take any existing workflow — any people driven business process — and I expect that most of the tasks within it could best be described […]
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Business 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 readingDecisions are more important than data
Names and categories are important. Just look at the challenges faced by the archeology community as DNA evidence forces history to be rewritten when it […]
Continue readingConsulting doesn’t work any more. We need to reinvent it.
What does it mean to be in consulting these days? The consulting model that’s evolved over the last 30 – 50 years seems to be […]
Continue readingThe rise of task worker 2.0
Companies are delayering (again) and pushing decisions to the surface of the organisation, where there is direct contact with customers and partners, in order to be […]
Continue readingWe need a better definition for “mash-up”
Mash-up no longer seems to mean was we thought it meant. The term has been claimed by the analysts and platform vendors as short hand for the […]
Continue readingWhat are the benefits of a mash-up?
The original mash-ups were simple things. Solutions like the Chicago Crime and AlertMap pulled together data from two or more sources (maps and crime databases, […]
Continue readingInnovation should not be the race for the new-new thing
Note: This post is part of larger series on innovation, going under the collective name of Innovation and Art of Random. We’re all searching for […]
Continue readingAccelerate along the road to happiness
Our ability to effectively manage time is central to success in today’s hype-competitive business environment. The streamlined and high velocity value-chains we’ve created are designed […]
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