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Casting a view from the coalface at business process re-engineering and transformation management.

The Object Management Group BPM/SOA Conference

BPM’s Time Has Come This submission was also posted to the OMG’s Business Process Management Consortium. http://blog.bpm-consortium.org/2009/09/index.html Gartner Executive Programme – Meeting the Challenge – the 2009 CIO Agenda (published Febr ...[Read More]

Post written by David Broadbent. Published: 30-Sep-2009 15:24 | 8 Comments |

OMG TECHNICAL MEETING September 14-18, 2009, San Antonio, TX USA

The Object Management Group, owners of the international standards for UML and BPMN are holding their Technical Meeting in San Antonio TX USA from the 14th to the 18th of September. The OMG Technical Meeting provides IT architects, business analys ...[Read More]

Post written by David Broadbent. Published: 07-Sep-2009 14:45 | 2 Comments |

Are your Business Processes ready for Swine Flu

The news is full of the impact of the pandemic of swine flu in terms of the medical impact and the unfortunate loss of life that has occurred which is tragic. However this blog is about a radio interview I heard about a week ago. I didn’t get his ...[Read More]

Post written by David Broadbent. Published: 10-Aug-2009 14:32 | 0 Comments |

Is S.O.A. dead?

Service Orientated Architecture or S O A as its pronounced in the UK, or ‘Sow Arr’ as our American cousins pronounce it, although that always sounds to me like someone from the deep south describing ‘sore’, or how their leg would feel if they banged ...[Read More]

Post written by David Broadbent. Published: 13-Jul-2009 15:49 | 1 Comment |

Gartner Highlight from the London summit 2009.- BPM is a lifeline for companies that need to reduce costs.

Gartner have published their highlight report from the BPM conference earlier in the year. I think one of the interesting observations is that in these times of recession, professionals from 34 countries attended the conference. This demonstrates it ...[Read More]

Post written by David Broadbent. Published: 23-Jun-2009 16:15 | 1 Comment |

Gartner Executive Programme – Meeting the Challenge – the 2009 CIO Agenda

‘1,526 CIO’s responded to this years CIO survey, representing more than $ 138 billion (£84.81 Billion) in the corporate and public sector IT spending. Business priorities where CIO’s selected their top five priorities showed that ‘Improving Business ...[Read More]

Post written by David Broadbent. Published: 12-Jun-2009 11:26 | 0 Comments |

Relationships are the key to risk reduction. Rod Newing of the Financial Times.

A case of ‘You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours’ ‘Only the collaborative will survive’. There is a really good article on the FT website this week by Rod Newing about business relationships. It covers the research carried out by Bill Bronsky ...[Read More]

Post written by David Broadbent. Published: 12-Jun-2009 10:53 | 1 Comment |