Some days ago I took a ride in IBM's Lombardi Blueprint another on-line tool that let's you discover, design and document business processes and share process knowledge among your team and peers. Very aligned what today is called collaborative process management or social BPM. In this article I don't analyse Lombardi's tool regardless I liked the way data is structured, clear, specially for non bpm experts that need to participate in process mapping and analysis, allow simple documentation (yet sufficient) with some automation provided, there is also risk analysis - very basic, probably useless. Anyway, the core feature is the capability to introduce on-line collaboration that runs smoothly. The thing is the suite have a built in feature that can import Visio process diagrams designed using BPMN notation, meaning that you don't have to construct process diagrams all over again. Lombardi announce, or suggests, users to get rid of Visio and start using Blueprint...
Gartner uses a crystal ball to introduce a set of trends that companies and software vendors should look for. Some of them are often vapourware. Anyway one of the latest trends is a pattern based strategies. Some of the links available are these: Spotting Patterns on the Fly: A Conversation with Birders David Sibley and Julia Yoshida How Will BPM Deal with Pattern Based Strategies (PBS)? Jim Sinur Performance-driven culture key for pattern-based strategy - IT online Some useful concept usage can be found bellow: The Predictive Accounting Revolution And where it all began: Strategy Theory Initiative" (STI) The other one is the adaptive processes: The agenda - Michael Hammer 's last book When Should a Process Be Art, Not Science? - Joseph M. Hall and M. Eric Johnson Some very interesting points about the subject here: Gartner Group predicts Adaptive Process Trend - Max J. Pucher Adaptive BPM…No Mapping tools… - Andrew One degree Managing unstructur...
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