Business
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Defining BPM and State thereof – The Perspectives at Play
With so many perspectives at play and with BPM community comprising multiple sub-communities with heterogeneous views, it is darn too difficult to define BPM that covers all the aspects and still satisfies everyone. When it comes to defining BPM, it will always be in a certain context and when a customer looks for the right… Continue reading
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Great Aesthetics, Good Notes, Bad Design!
[tweetmeme source=”ashish_bhagwat” only_single=false] Whenever I see an object with a specific note attached to it, to me that means bad design. It doesn’t matter how aesthetically great the product looks. I experience so many day-to-day objects of usage with glaringly bad design yet with great aesthetics, I thought I’d jot down few that irritate me Continue reading
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Do not treat Process Solutions as Applications
It’s very difficult for everyone involved to get out of the application mindset that has got deeply ingrained with years of training and repeated beating-in. I’m afraid this gets further legitimized with Rapid Application Development (RAD) and Composite Applications Development through BPMS gaining acceptance. But, if you actually want a process management solution, don’t treat… Continue reading
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When Tools Become Everything…
My daughter knows very well she’s not actually a Doctor and is just playing with her Doctor’s kit. Can we stop playing with these investments in BPM(S) and actually practice BPM? When tools become everything – it’s not business, it’s child’s play. Continue reading
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Those Landlocks are no good
An interesting graph at Gapminder on economic growth of landlocked countries v/s those with coastlines shows that landlocked countries have bigger challenged on economic growth. Same is true for businesses except that countries cannot decide whether to be or not be landlocked, businesses can! Continue reading
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Bridge Those Silos with Incentive Alignment and KPIs
Silos within the organizations boil down to plain WIIFM (What’s In It For Me?), the way organizations measure performance and the type of behaviors they encourage. There’s a relationship among KPIs, Objectives, Expectations, Inspection, and Incentives. We can bridge the silos by understanding this, and effectively using the technology and tools available to us once… Continue reading
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On BPM, Incremental Improvement and Innovation
If Incremental Improvement is so much loved by business stakeholders, it’s not because BPM cannot do otherwise, they just like it that way! As for Innovation in BPM, We are at a point of time which is most conducive in recent few years for big leap innovations in BPM – as discipline & as technology. Continue reading
Between the Dots 