Between the Dots

February 28, 2010

Here you go, Technorati! ZQEARKWAVWQK

ZQEARKWAVWQK Don’t worry if you don’t understand ;) It’s meant for Technorati! Continue reading

February 25, 2010

Which flavor of COE is right for your enterprise BPM strategy?

BPM COE (Center of Excellence) is essential to an enterprise BPM strategy. However, positioning of the COE within the organization is a key success factor. There are various flavors of BPM CoE that serve different purposes and most organizations would go through some of these before reaching the right positioning and right level of maturity.… Continue reading

BPM, Business, Management, Technology

BPM, BPM COE, BPMS, Business, Center of Excellence, COE, Enterprise BPM, linkedin, Management, Organization, Technology

February 23, 2010

Catalog based Pricing in BPM business – Challenge lies in defining the process unit

On a tweet-chat today, Connie Moore from Forrester mentioned that the entry price from one of the vendors for BPM in cloud is around 3K/month for a single process. The immediate question that popped in my head was how do you decide on the pricing unit in this case. And unless we have defined the… Continue reading

Architecture, BPM, Business, Cloud Computing, Management, Technology

BPM, Business, Cloud, linkedin, Pricing, Pricing Unit, Process unit, Technology

February 20, 2010

BPM in Cloud? Really? Not anytime soon…

The closest that comes to what’s happening on the ground is “Process-Modeler-as-a-Service” [Not BPA in the cloud, again!] and “BPMS-Platform-as-a-Service” or “BPMS-platform-in-the-cloud”. And this trend is expected to continue for the next couple of years. We don’t have all the ingredients in place, and don’t expect in the next couple of years, to have any… Continue reading

Architecture, BPM, Business, Cloud Computing, Management, Technology

BPA, BPM, BPMS, Business, Cloud, linkedin, PaaS, SaaS

February 5, 2010

Curse of Stardom…

[tweetmeme source=”ashish_bhagwat” only_single=false] Stardom often affects the effectiveness of a particular performance in the field of acting. I was watching the second part of “Infernal Affairs” – a Hong Kong original (that inspired Martin Scorcese’s Departed, as I came to know later). I didn’t know any of these actors and which ones are stars! I… Continue reading

Entertainment, Philosophy

Acting, Movies, Performance, Stardom

February 4, 2010

The Charity Dilemma: Serving Self To Serve Others

[tweetmeme source=”ashish_bhagwat” only_single=false] My sister & her colleagues are part of a charitable NGO-NPO (Non Govt – Non Profit org) at Indore, somewhere in central India. An easily excitable bunch of people, and actually very excited about the work they do. She mentioned about a pretty successful outing they had with a seminar covering the… Continue reading

Business, Human Behavior, Leadership

Business, Charity, Management, NGO, Non-Profit, NPO, Professionalism, Social Cause

February 2, 2010

Lessons in business from a street hawker

[tweetmeme source=”ashish_bhagwat” only_single=false] We already know from Ram Charan how much a street peddler knows about the turnover and running a business. But, from what I saw today tells me he knows much more than just that… I live in Dwarka (not the one made famous by Lord Krishna, this one is one of the… Continue reading

Business, Leadership, Marketing

Business, Demand-Supply, J-I-T, Lessons, linkedin, marketing, target segment

February 2, 2010

Answering nature’s call? Why not just take a P!$$?

[tweetmeme source=”ashish_bhagwat” only_single=false] It really intrigues me how certain words become taboos, while some other (with the same meaning, mind you) remain acceptable in our civil society. How is it that a certain word “sh!#” is a strict No-No, while “crap” is still acceptable? How about “Damn it” v/s “Darn it”. Both are just words… Continue reading

Human Behavior, Philosophy

Euphemism, Human Behavior, Taboo

January 31, 2010

Insight and Introspection

[tweetmeme source=”ashish_bhagwat” only_single=false] I believe too much introspection can cloud the insight. Both seem related but may not always go with each other. How many times does it happen that we face a situation and come out with a solution that seems so correct, a result of a keen insight. This insight often is a… Continue reading

Management, Philosophy

Decision Making, linkedin

January 28, 2010

APTITUDE + ATTITUDE = ALTITUDE

[tweetmeme source=”ashish_bhagwat” only_single=false] As simple as this equation looks, the altitude that one achieves in life depends “simply” on one’s attitude combined with the aptitude. (It seemed like a eureka moment when I was addressing an audience and believed to have coined this there; Only to realize later that a bunch of others have already… Continue reading

Leadership, Philosophy

Aptitude, Attitude, linkedin, Success