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When Best Practice Is Just Not Good Enough Why And How You Need To Be Better Than The Best
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
One of the management buzz words really getting a lot of air play and column inches these days is "Best Practice." Wherever you look and listen, you will see or hear people writing about or...
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Business Performance Modeling For ERP Projects
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The purpose of this paper is to provide information and examples of how business process modeling and simulation is used to support enterprise resource planning (ERP) commercial off the shelf...
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The Meaning Of 21st Century Business: Unleashing The Power Within Using Social Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
All the business technology innovation may not change the big picture of the dramatic changes and global power shifts we are experiencing, but it will go a long way to giving us the eyes and ears...
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The Self-Organizing Supply Chain
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) will drive the decisions of supply chain members. As supply chains come to rely more on AI to make operational decisions, the technology...
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New Dimensions In Business Applications
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The advent of cloud computing is lowering a key barrier to entry for business ventures by reducing direct software costs and avoiding the complications of installing the software and maintaining...
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Who Is Responsible For Process Performance?
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This approach to determining who's watching performance and taking corrective action is based on the management model shown. This model separates the major activities of performance management...
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Business Processes Start With Capabilities
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
There are numerous approaches to positioning business processes and services within both the current and future state descriptions of a business / IT solution. With the evolution of Business...
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A Single Page Generic Business Architecture
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Business Architecture (BA), in its infancy, is often seen as merely a complement to IT Enterprise Architecture (EA). On the other hand, business disciplines such as business, process and quality...
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Process On Demand And Cloud Services
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In processes that are purely collaborative and dynamic, the process goes where it wants, guided by knowledge workers as long as it stays within constraints (special kind of policies and rules) and...
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Agility Based On Business Rules: Just Common Sense
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Today's business systems aren't agile - even when agile software methods are used to develop them. Companies need business agility, and, in most cases, people aren't delivering it. Here's an...
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Why Trends Matter
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
How do you help your client organizations operate at the forefront of their industry? Do you consistently add value for your clients? What do you provide to them to distinguish yourself from...
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Business Applications In The Cloud-Mobility Era
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The rise of cloud and mobile computing has tremendous potential to drive economic growth by providing new capabilities to the modern enterprise. However, applying these new technical capabilities...
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Building Metrics For A Process
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper the authors provide some principles and a tool to remedy the most significant problems. The authors will describe the guidelines they follow in creating process metrics for clients...
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Building Business Capability
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
BBC has been designed to enhance the knowledge of BPM professionals by offering three full tracks of rich content featuring cross-over presentations, keynotes and panels that will provide...
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Fractal Enterprise Architecture And Agent-Oriented BPM: Can UML Or BPMN Model A Cloud?
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
As globalization continues its march to becoming the greatest reorganization of the world since the Industrial Revolution, companies in a variety of industries are increasingly adopting a...
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Business Agility Requires Business Processes As Its Basis
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
From the organizations and clients the authors have been speaking with recently, agility seems to be back on many executive's agenda, especially as their organizations are forced to deal with...
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Who Cares About Your Business Processes? Part 2: Stakeholder Analysis In Business Process Architecture
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The prime role of Business Process Management (BPM) at this enterprise level is to assure that the various enterprise capabilities are aligned with one another and they deliver traceable process...
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What Organizations Need Is A BPM Roadmap With Clear Benefits
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
What is important to realize is that the timeframe over which these two elements are developed and the benefits that they deliver to the business are different. The authors believe this is where...
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Balanced Process Management
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
We must balance the tensions between the competing cases for standardized global processes versus locally tailored processes? To what extent should organizational energy be expended in enforcing...
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Whither The CIO?: What happens To The CIO When Companies Are Turned Upside-Down And Outside-In?
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
With the complete fusion of technology into the modern enterprise, technology and business have become inseparable. The technology is the business; the business is the technology. Together they...
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What Is A Business Rule?
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
For business process professionals, understanding decision logic from the perspective of business people is key. For that one need business rules. But when can a rule be considered a business...
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The Business Process Transformation Framework A New Approach To Delivering Your "To Be" Vision Completely, Accurately, And Efficiently
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In the first two papers of this three-part series, the authors discussed the long list of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system implementation failures and introduced a new technology...
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Putting The M Back In BPM
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Rethinking BPM: Business Process Management can be simply defined as the management discipline by which an organization treats its business processes as one of its most valuable assets. However,...
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Data4BPM: A Technical Vision And Approach Towards A First Class Representation And Specification Of Data For BPM
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The specification and deployment of business processes and operations is crucial to the successful management of medium and large-scale enterprises. In most business process management tool...
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The Business Process Transformation Framework, Part 2: A New Approach To Delivering Your "To Be" Vision Completely, Accurately, And Efficiently
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In the first paper of this three-part series, the authors discussed the long list of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system implementation failures and introduced a new technology framework for...
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From The Outside World To Internal Structure
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
There is an increasing trend of making analogies between living organisms and business environments. Terms like "Business Ecosystem," or case studies about the application of concepts like...
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Who Cares About Your Business Processes?
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper states that project management and communication were everyone's business, up and down the hierarchy of work components and also across the delivery chain. This can be seen by the...
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From Rulebook Management To Business Governance: Where Business Rules Fit
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Say "Governance" and many people immediately think IT governance, or sometimes data governance. Governance has been bandied about so much that its meaning has become clouded and trivialized....
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Evolving The Decision Model With Views
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Having used the Decision Model in large scale enterprises over the last two years, the authors have become convinced of the value of the model. However, in large scale enterprises, business rules,...
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Processes In The New Enterprise
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
It is not surprising that the processes important to those involved in a software company are related to the life cycle development and management of the product and the acquisition and retention...
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Enterprise And Process Architecture Patterns
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
For more than 30 years, many authors have attempted to synthesize the knowledge about how an enterprise should structure its business processes, the people that execute them, the Information...
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Social Networks, Innovation And The MITH Myth
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Modern economies, The Economist recently noted, "Are not built with capital or labor as much as by ideas." By some estimates nearly half America's gross domestic product is based on intellectual...
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Extreme Innovation
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The gap between business and IT and, hence, the need to significantly improve business/IT alignment have remained on the list of unsolved issues for several years. This unfortunate situation gives...
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Business Architecture: The Missing Link Between Business Strategy And Enterprise Architecture
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The SOA Consortium's EA2010 Working Group - a group of "Street-smart" enterprise architecture practitioners - has been actively discussing the domains, services, practices, and skills required for...
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The Year Ahead
January 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
No one can accurately predict how the economy will perform in 2010. Most stock markets are up and many signs point to a recovery that is gaining some momentum. At the same time, the latest US...
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It's Time: Ditch your Business Rules
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The benefits that flow from using the Decision Model to separate the business rules, and manage them, are very significant. They extend into many areas of management and information technology...
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Down Under: Execution Is Everything?
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
In the increasingly "Interesting" world we live in, long term based strategies or plans are becoming less useful. The world is simply changing so fast - and yet we all need direction and a vision,...
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Process-Centricity And The Business Analyst's New Role
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The Business Analyst must have the skill listed in the preceding section. Contrast with conventional approach, where project managers occasionally ask "Conventionally-trained BAs" to do UI design...
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Process As Art And Other Misconceptions
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
What is a process? A set of activities that turn inputs into outputs. What is a good process? A process that does what it is supposed to do when it is supposed to do it, reliably. What is a great...
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What Makes A Good Process?
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
So what makes a "Good process"? This is a question that the author was often asked. Usually the person asking is looking for a simple answer: "One that has no more than 10 task boxes" or "Only has...
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Unified Organizations. Do You Fit In?
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
To perform at top level, all systems within an organization need to be aligned. When body and mind aren't connected, one can't function well. In the same way that it is important to align the mind...
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Practical Process: Occasionally, It Has To Be Remarkable
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
If process improvement projects find only the same changes any problem solving approach would discover, what's the point? If all we do is identify obvious problems and suggest obvious solutions,...
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Case Management: Combining Knowledge With Process
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Case Management is critical to the work of many organizations but is often intensely manual, paper-driven and plagued by delay and poor visibility. Primarily this is because Case Management...
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Cloud Computing: It's About Management Innovation
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The future is arriving at a faster pace than ever before in history. But new and profound business opportunities are not always recognized when they first emerge - even when they are of the...
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Deploying BPM In The Cloud Has A Silver Lining
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
I.T. Infrastructure has been commoditizing for about 10 years, ever since Linux started taking the market share from proprietary (and expensive) server operating systems. With the rise of...
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Start Building Your Business Process Models "Now
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Of late, many organizations have realized the importance of building their business process models and started such initiatives for one reason or the other. Some of the prominent reasons are:...
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Innovation: A Simple Approach To Accelerating Innovation: Driving SOA Services From Your BPM Initiative
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
SOA delivers obvious and indisputable benefits to organizations, deciding upon an approach can be tedious and controversial for IT and line-of-business managers. Some SOA gurus suggest using a...
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Business Rule Solutions: The Value Of Decisions
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Cost-justification of business rule initiatives has always been a challenge. Enterprise Decision Management (EDM) provides new and exciting ideas for this important area. As explained in this...
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ICT Value Solutions For Large Enterprises In Line With Their Business Objectives: A Marketing Approach
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The evolution of the economic milieu makes it compelling for large enterprises to be more interconnected and flexible in order to maintain a competitive edge in their respective markets. While...
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When Best Practice Is Just Not Good Enough Why And How You Need To Be Better Than The Best
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
One of the management buzz words really getting a lot of air play and column inches these days is "Best Practice." Wherever you look and listen, you will see or hear people writing about or...
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Innovation Out Of The Box
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Four out of five senior IT executives consider innovation to be the most important endeavor on their plate. Only two of those four are doing anything about it. Of all the innovation initiatives...
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IT Disasters: A Root Cause
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In the first column the authors wrote about the huge, costly failures of IT systems development projects, citing some of the disasters the authors personally or had read about recently. But the...
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Business Activity Monitoring - Economic Impact On Industry Verticals
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The importance and popularity of Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) is slowly spreading from large organizations to small and medium organizations due to the maturity of BAM technologies and an...
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Accelerating Business Innovation: Five Unique Traits Of Business Process Management that Facilitate Agile Development
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
From antiquity, innovation has served as the catalyst for economic growth. Do it faster, do it with less, do it better. Over the latter half of the 20th century, information technology stepped up...
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Start Building Your Business Process Models "Now"
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Of late, many organizations have realized the importance of building their business process models and started such initiatives for one reason or the other. Some of the prominent reasons are:...
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The Business-Technology Drivers And Benefits Of SOA
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Today's Telco faces enormous challenges - more demanding customers, increased competition, outdated infrastructure and network,, ever-growing regulatory requirements, and time-to-market pressure....
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The Value Of Decisions
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Cost-justification of business rule initiatives has always been a challenge. Enterprise Decision Management (EDM) provides new and exciting ideas for this important area. As explained in this...
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The Silver Bullet Of Business Rules Management Systems
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Both the business rule and software development industry are entering an exciting new era of business agility, accelerated deployment, and enterprise-wide optimization. Business rule vendors are...
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The IT-Business Gap: Another Root Cause
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
In last two papers, the authors ranted at length about the all too prevalent scenario of IT projects that have failed spectacularly, costing the companies that funded them millions of dollars (in...
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Enterprise Architecture As A Meta-Process
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
It's the processes: the effective implementation of processes makes all the difference to the success of an Enterprise Architecture project. Business processes should be designed not only for...
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Enterprise Architecture And The Business Rules Life Cycle
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper defines and describes the fundamental Business Rule Lifecycle (BRLC) within an advanced logical and physical integration of Enterprise Architecture (EA) including Enterprise Decision...
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The Six Fallacies Of Business Process Improvement
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The concept of business process is at the convergence of several trends: BPR, certification ISO 9000, large package implementation (CRM, SCM), technologies (BPM, SOA, EAI, B2B), operational...
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A Little Knowledge Is A Dangerous Thing: Building Business Process Management Skills
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Business Process Management skills are a hot commodity these days. When the author searched for "Business Process Management" on HotJobs recently, the query returned 50,000 job openings that...
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Legacy Systems - Poorly Engineered Or Over-Engineered?
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
It is estimated that some 75% or more of all IT resources currently go toward system 'Maintenance'. That's not a very effective use of talent or money, and certainly not sustainable for the long...
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BPM And PI: Business Performance Partners (Part 1)
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
While many organizations have successfully introduced Process Improvement (PI) methodologies, a number of those very same organizations struggle to integrate enterprise-wide Business Process...
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How To Avoid The Four Most Common Mistakes Of Sales Process Mapping
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Process mapping is a well-known technique for creating a common vision and shared language for improving business results. It helped one management training and development firm realize that...
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Business Process Management: The Right Way To Do It
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
BPM is really all about managing processes, the people who are the "Doers" of the process, and the systems that help them achieve what they do. Ironically, more often than not, one tends to...
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The Virtualization Of The Enterprise
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Porter conceptualized, in the 80s, the Value Chain (VC) of an Enterprise. A VC categorizes the business functions of a company in primary (operations) and secondary (support) functions. Porter...
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Leadership And BPM
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Leadership begins with making the issue easy. Take away the complexity and drill down to the essence of the issue. The best Leaders develop their environment and their colleagues. In other words,...
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Aligning People With Business Processes: Building Robust, Self-Correcting Alignments
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Proper people-process alignment is achieved when sufficient numbers of well prepared people are readily available to support business processes. People function best as enablers when given the...
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The Roots Of The Business Process Mapping
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Today, there are a number of techniques available for mapping (or charting) business processes. This paper focuses on a method that is at the same time simpler and yet more detailed than most...
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Do you Need A Business Process Department?
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The innumerable benefits of investing in business process techniques are in efficiency, productivity, cost reduction, quality, faster results, standardization, less variability, greater value in...
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Using ROI To Measure The Results Of Business Process Improvement Initiatives
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Given today's economy and the need to do more with reduced resources, budgets, etc., organizations are looking to improve efficiencies across departments and business units. This means reviewing...
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Configurable Process Models: How To Adopt Standard Practices In Your Own Way?
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Configurable process models enable a systematic documentation and reuse of standardized "Best" practices, while allowing process analysts to understand possible variations contemplated by these...
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Enterprise Alignment And Business Processes
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
There is much discussion within BPM programs and projects about ensuring they have strategic alignment. But what exactly does this mean and how do we achieve it? Conventional wisdom would have us...
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Engaging The Business Side
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
To technical support managers and professionals, it is no comfort to know that others encounter the same business end resistance to new ideas and improved methods that they experience....
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Learning From Context To Improve Business Processes
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
With this paper the authors sought to raise visibility for the next generation of process management. Under the notion of context-awareness the authors described some of the current and future...
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Collaborative Business Applications: Part II - Extended Business Processes
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
In the first part of this series, the author describes how SOA could be used to add collaboration capabilities to enterprise applications, how these services compare to the business services we...
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Case Management: A Review Of Modeling Approaches
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
In 2008 the Object Management Group (OMG) released an RFI on "Dynamic business activity modeling". The need to model case management processes was the primary motivation towards this RFI. Several...
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The Meaning Of Things Definitions, Intensions, Rules, And Extensions
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
A business concept corresponds to a set of things important to the business. Those things make up the concept's extension. And the concept has a meaning. That meaning is called its intension. Does...
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