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Leading Process Change - Part 3
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Process improvement projects are essentially projects with a clear beginning and an end. Much of the focus on the success of such projects has emphasized the extent to which the originally stated...
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Project Management Approach For Business Process Improvement
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Business process improvement initiatives are frequently key projects within an organization - regardless of the size of the organization or, frankly, the size of the business process improvement...
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What You Need To Know About Business Rules
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Business rules should be externalized from processes and established as a separate resource. Rule Independence permits direct management of the business rules, so they can evolve at their own...
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What Is Your Process Problem Model?
October 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Different groups have very different ways of thinking about the nature of business process change. When one talk with a number of individual process practitioners, one realize that their...
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Customer Experience - The Marriage Of Marketing And Business Process
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Marketing is a continuously evolving discipline. From the focus on production with the rise of industrialization in the early 1900's, to focus on selling during the post World War II era, to the...
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Business Rules And Business Processes
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The best definition of business process the author have found to date is Janey Conkey Frazier's: the tasks required for an enterprise to satisfy a planned response to a business event from...
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Don't Panic, It May Be Simpler Than you Think! Business Processes And Business Rules Need Not Be Complex
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
We often hear people say, "Our processes and business logic are extremely complex; they will be very difficult and expensive to understand and document." This same thought-process usually prevails...
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Reliability Centered Processes Drive Technology
August 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Auxiliary & Plant Services (A&PS) of the University of California, San Diego set an objective to become a customer focused and performance driven organization through business process renewal. At...
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Designing Service Oriented Solutions Part II - The Design Process
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In the first Column of this series, the authors examined the relationship of business processes to business services in terms of functional decomposition. Equally important to a service is the...
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Business Processes And Patent Law
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The idea that an inventor should be granted a period of time during which he or she has the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or "Selling" an invention in the United...
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Cloud Oriented Business Architecture
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing can mean whatever one want it to mean. It's supposedly cloud computing just so as long as whateveritis goes outside the company firewall. Go play the cloud-computing definition...
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Process Maturity Models
May 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Process Maturity Models continue to enjoy quite a bit of popularity. Indeed, there are more maturity models every day. There are not only maturity models for processes, but for business rules,...
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Designing Service Oriented Solutions Part I - The Business Model
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Business / IT alignment has been an elusive and consistent goal of both IT and the business. But, one big challenge IT faces is what to align with. Often, the business goals and strategy are not...
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Process Project Perspectives: Hope Is Not A Strategy And Ignorance Is Not Bliss
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Process change projects are inherently risky propositions, and the bigger the change the riskier they become, since there are more perspectives to derail the effort and exponentially more unknowns...
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Value Chains, Value Streams, Value Nets, And Value Delivery Chains
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Value Chain Group together with partners have developed approaches and methodologies to support the process of successfully aligning business and IT strategies, architecture, design,...
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How To 99% Test Your Business Processes
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A business process is a collection of related, structured activities or tasks that produce a specific service or that serve a particular goal for a particular customer (Courtesy: Wikipedia). The...
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Surviving And Growing During An Economic Downturn
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
We are barraged by the images of our sliding economy on a daily basis. The news media is spreading fear, agony, and despair. Many companies are reacting by deeply cutting staff, reducing services,...
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A Quick-Fix To Beat The Global Financial Crisis Through BPM
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Global Financial crisis is the burning platform that many organizations could use, if they chose, to justify a fundamental analysis and improvement of their business processes and management....
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The Cloud Enterprise
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Business Process Utility, the Virtual Enterprise, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Architecture, SOA, all these business and IT developments - how could they all be deployed and integrated in a...
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Business Process Architecture - One Company's Journey In Adoption
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The ideal is to have executive level support for a Business Processing Management (BPM) effort. But, at least in this case, BPM is sponsored by one executive. In essence, that means BPM takes the...
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The Business Process Spectrum
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
There are different types of process, ranging from Task-Based (stable, sequenced, siloed and often at least semi-automated) to Information-Based (iterative, interactive, inter-organization and...
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Six Sigma, Lean And BPM
January 27, 2009, 12:00am PST
The concern with business process improvement is a perennial concern that has been with one since Frederick Winslow Taylor urged companies to simplify work and identify the one best way of...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
Provided by Business Process Trends
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White Papers
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...
Provided by Business Process Trends
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White Papers
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...
Provided by Business Process Trends
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White Papers
Six Sigma, Lean And BPM
January 27, 2009, 12:00am PST
The concern with business process improvement is a perennial concern that has been with one since Frederick Winslow Taylor urged companies to simplify work and identify the one best way of...
Provided by Business Process Trends
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White Papers
The Business Process Spectrum
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
There are different types of process, ranging from Task-Based (stable, sequenced, siloed and often at least semi-automated) to Information-Based (iterative, interactive, inter-organization and...
Provided by Business Process Trends
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White Papers
Business Process Architecture - One Company's Journey In Adoption
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The ideal is to have executive level support for a Business Processing Management (BPM) effort. But, at least in this case, BPM is sponsored by one executive. In essence, that means BPM takes the...
Provided by Business Process Trends
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White Papers
The Cloud Enterprise
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Business Process Utility, the Virtual Enterprise, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Architecture, SOA, all these business and IT developments - how could they all be deployed and integrated in a...
Provided by Business Process Trends
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White Papers
A Quick-Fix To Beat The Global Financial Crisis Through BPM
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Global Financial crisis is the burning platform that many organizations could use, if they chose, to justify a fundamental analysis and improvement of their business processes and management....
Provided by Business Process Trends
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White Papers
Surviving And Growing During An Economic Downturn
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
We are barraged by the images of our sliding economy on a daily basis. The news media is spreading fear, agony, and despair. Many companies are reacting by deeply cutting staff, reducing services,...
Provided by Business Process Trends
-
White Papers
How To 99% Test Your Business Processes
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A business process is a collection of related, structured activities or tasks that produce a specific service or that serve a particular goal for a particular customer (Courtesy: Wikipedia). The...
Provided by Business Process Trends
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White Papers
Value Chains, Value Streams, Value Nets, And Value Delivery Chains
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Value Chain Group together with partners have developed approaches and methodologies to support the process of successfully aligning business and IT strategies, architecture, design,...
Provided by Business Process Trends
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White Papers
Process Project Perspectives: Hope Is Not A Strategy And Ignorance Is Not Bliss
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Process change projects are inherently risky propositions, and the bigger the change the riskier they become, since there are more perspectives to derail the effort and exponentially more unknowns...
Provided by Business Process Trends
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White Papers
Designing Service Oriented Solutions Part I - The Business Model
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Business / IT alignment has been an elusive and consistent goal of both IT and the business. But, one big challenge IT faces is what to align with. Often, the business goals and strategy are not...
Provided by Business Process Trends
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White Papers
Process Maturity Models
May 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Process Maturity Models continue to enjoy quite a bit of popularity. Indeed, there are more maturity models every day. There are not only maturity models for processes, but for business rules,...
Provided by Business Process Trends
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White Papers
Cloud Oriented Business Architecture
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing can mean whatever one want it to mean. It's supposedly cloud computing just so as long as whateveritis goes outside the company firewall. Go play the cloud-computing definition...
Provided by Business Process Trends
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White Papers
Business Processes And Patent Law
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The idea that an inventor should be granted a period of time during which he or she has the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or "Selling" an invention in the United...
Provided by Business Process Trends
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White Papers
Designing Service Oriented Solutions Part II - The Design Process
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In the first Column of this series, the authors examined the relationship of business processes to business services in terms of functional decomposition. Equally important to a service is the...
Provided by Business Process Trends
-
White Papers
Reliability Centered Processes Drive Technology
August 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Auxiliary & Plant Services (A&PS) of the University of California, San Diego set an objective to become a customer focused and performance driven organization through business process renewal. At...
Provided by Business Process Trends
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White Papers
Don't Panic, It May Be Simpler Than you Think! Business Processes And Business Rules Need Not Be Complex
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
We often hear people say, "Our processes and business logic are extremely complex; they will be very difficult and expensive to understand and document." This same thought-process usually prevails...
Provided by Business Process Trends
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White Papers
Business Rules And Business Processes
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The best definition of business process the author have found to date is Janey Conkey Frazier's: the tasks required for an enterprise to satisfy a planned response to a business event from...
Provided by Business Process Trends
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White Papers
Customer Experience - The Marriage Of Marketing And Business Process
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Marketing is a continuously evolving discipline. From the focus on production with the rise of industrialization in the early 1900's, to focus on selling during the post World War II era, to the...
Provided by Business Process Trends
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White Papers
What Is Your Process Problem Model?
October 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Different groups have very different ways of thinking about the nature of business process change. When one talk with a number of individual process practitioners, one realize that their...
Provided by Business Process Trends
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White Papers
What You Need To Know About Business Rules
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Business rules should be externalized from processes and established as a separate resource. Rule Independence permits direct management of the business rules, so they can evolve at their own...
Provided by Business Process Trends
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White Papers
Project Management Approach For Business Process Improvement
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Business process improvement initiatives are frequently key projects within an organization - regardless of the size of the organization or, frankly, the size of the business process improvement...
Provided by Business Process Trends
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White Papers
Leading Process Change - Part 3
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Process improvement projects are essentially projects with a clear beginning and an end. Much of the focus on the success of such projects has emphasized the extent to which the originally stated...
Provided by Business Process Trends
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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