Posts Tagged COE
The new role of IT – from Cost Center to Business Platform Provider
Posted by Ashish Bhagwat in Architecture, BPM, Business, Cloud Computing, Innovation, Management, Platform-as-a-Service, Technology on April 7, 2011
IT can, driven by APaaS, become a Business Platform Provider and facilitate Business Value, and move beyond being Cost Center. While IT may, for some time to come, control the buying and maintenance of such platforms, the key to their success lies in understanding that they need to focus on the role of platform Engineering and Governance, and facilitate the business value driven applications development.
Will Social Networking Wave Wash Away Centers of Excellence?
Posted by Ashish Bhagwat in BPM, Business, Innovation, Leadership, Management, Technology on April 19, 2010
Theo Priestly brought up a stirring point and claimed that social wave while removing silos will also bring the extinction of the COEs. Well, I disagree. In this post I cover the premise of BPM COE, and the the reasons I do not believe that BPM COEs could get washed away with the social wave.
How important is it to qualify an opportunity or solution as BPM?
Posted by Ashish Bhagwat in BPM, Business, Management, Technology on March 20, 2010
I have seen many a successful BPM solution that has been more so in hindsight. And a lot of hyped up solutions/initiatives that started off as BPM solutions ended up as duds. What’s important is to remain true to the BPM drivers and objectives. And that is, to make an impact on customer experience and measurable parameters that really matter. If you do that, you will end up doing what’s best for the objective, call it BPM then if you wish! Pre-qualification of a problem (as a BPM candidate) or solution (as BPM implementation) isn’t as important as it seems.
BPM Ecosystem – Blurring Boundaries or Systematic Convergence?
Posted by Ashish Bhagwat in Architecture, BPM, Business, Cloud Computing, Leadership, Management, Technology on March 16, 2010
In the initial years of BPM, we thought we had few problems that would slowly disappear with maturity in the discipline / technology. Come 2010, and we are dealing with more variants of similar problems. Depending on where you look from and where your stakes lie, this could be a case of blurring boundaries or of significant convergence in BPM ecosystem as illustrated here. Can we all “converge” and leverage on our best opportunity in recent times to really take BPM to where it belongs?
Which flavor of COE is right for your enterprise BPM strategy?
Posted by Ashish Bhagwat in BPM, Business, Management, Technology on February 25, 2010
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. Some thought must be given to which flavor of COE really does your enterprise BPM strategy need. I cover these flavors here.
Ashish Bhagwat
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A graduate in Engineering and Business Management with interests in Leadership, Strategy, Marketing, Technology, BPM and Cloud Computing.
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