Business Process Trends

New Features in February

Letter from the Founders:

Welcome to BPTrends Columnist, Rob Davis
This month, we welcome Rob Davis to our roster of BPTrends Columnists, Rob is a Senior BPM Consultant at IDS Scheer, UK. He has extensive experience in all areas of BPM and in his new BPTrends Column, Process in Practice, Rob will offer his insights on a wide range of topics relating to effective BPM practices.

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BPTrends Monthly Email Advisors

	February 16 - What's New at BPTrends? In this Advisor, Paul Harmon, BPTrends Executive Editor and Analyst and Celia Wolf, BPTrends Publisher, discuss some new initiatives scheduled for launch in Q1, 2010.
	February 23 - BPM Conferences in 2010 In this Advisor, we will review some of the BPM Conferences scheduled in 2010 that will provide opportunities for learning about current tends and directions, methdologies and practices and technologies and standards in BPM.

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Columns

Performance Architecture: The Way We Do Things Now
What happens when well-designed processes do not align with the practices of the supervisors who perform them? In their Column this month, Roger Addison and Carol Haig examine this question and identify the symptoms of the misalignment of process and practice. Read their Column for practical solutions that can help in "halting the cycle of poor performance."
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Process in Practice: Process Reuse
In his debut Column for BPTrends, Rob Davis addresses the subject of reuse. Although it is a concept that has been around for a long time, do we understand what it really means? In response to that question, Rob identifies and defines the key categories of reuse - structural, design, and implementation - and suggests some things we need to understand in order to achieve effective reuse in these key categories.
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Extreme Competition: Social Networks, Innovation and the MITH Myth
Peter Fingar turns his attention to the compelling topic of social networks and their relevancy to the changing role of information technology in business. He sees social networks not as time-wasters but as a new source of business intelligence - places where work gets done and innovation can thrive. Your boss may not agree, but you should read Peter's Column and form your own opinion.
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SAP Journal: Semantic Metadata - Tapping the Potential of Semantic Ontologies
David Frankel has written extensively on semantic interoperability problems and has suggested solutions to many of them. Those readers familiar with Dave's previous Columns on this subject know that he considers semantic interoperability a major economic enabler. This month, he focuses on semantic ontologies and where they fit into the picture.
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BPM and SOA: Collaborative Knowledge Processes
Mike Rosen identifies a variety of factors inherent in knowledge processes that do not lend themselves to traditional BPMS solutions. How to accommodate the unpredictable and interactive nature of knowledge workers is the challenge the next generation of BPM must deal with. Read Mike's Column for his insightful perceptions on this important issue.
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Practitioner's Perspective: Process Architecture on a Budget, Part 1
Identifying the 100 or so processes in an enterprise can be time consuming and expensive. In his Column this month, Alec looks at a project he is currently working on that involves completing enterprise process identification within a short time frame and on a limited budget. Read what he has to say about the process and some lessons learned on achieving that all-important executive buy-in.
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Articles

Extreme Innovation
Dieter Jenz takes up the ongoing misalignment between business and IT and suggests that it is no longer feasible to pursue these same old well-trodden paths. Instead, he proposes a holistic BPM solution. Read his Article for the details.
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Business Architecture: The Missing Link between Business Strategy and Enterprise Architecture
The SOA Consortium's EA2010 Working Group, a self described group of "street-smart" enterprise architecture practitioners, has been actively discussing the domains, services, practices, and skills required for a thriving, business relevant enterprise architecture practice. In this Article, previously published on the OMG website, members of the working group articulate the reasons for their belief that business relevant architecture is the missing link between an organization's strategy and its enterprise architecture.
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Advanced Decisioning Process Excellence
In this Article, James Taylor discusses his theory of Advanced Decisioning, which, he contends, makes processes simpler, more agile and smarter. Read his explanation of this approach to process excellence, why he believes in it, and the three steps necessary to achieving it.
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Calendar of Events

Following is a list of conferences where BPTrends will be co-producing, participating, presenting and/or sponsoring the event:

Gartner Business Process Management Summit - March 21-24, Las Vegas, NV
BPM 2010 - September 14-16, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N.J.
2010 BPM Europe - September 28-30, London, England

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