AntiAmba

This is the mirror post in Redux online but with Portuguese translation. 1. Introduction:   The interest to write this series of articles was triggered last year when Google failed to introduce one of it's social products: The Google Wave . When it was released in mid- 2009, was considered a threat to Facebook, because it had enhanced features like attach files, and other content. I thought that more than a threat it could be a tool able to be used in the business world for collaboration in business process orchestration. Curiously few months after Google announcement (in October 2009) SAP introduced a prototype where showed the integration of Google Wave in a product called Gravity   . Later, in February of 2010 that prototype evolved for a product called Streamwork . Other companies followed the same steps with other approach: IBM released IBM Blue Works     ; ARIS already had released the ARIS ALIGN   and others followed. Gartner introduced the ...

Case Management are the first breach in BPM systems. It can lead several systems for manage the business processes. Want structured? Infinitely repeatable? Buy BPMS. Want AD-HOC process capability? Buy other tool. This is the ultimate contradiction since BPMS arose in the market. Most case management marketing managers are telling the wrong story, because actually you can build a case management process in a standard BPMS. For example: just add infinite loops in each process state before moving to the next one capable of interacting and catching information with colleges, partners, external stakeholders, whatever. Make possible to go forward and backward in every state. Simply remember petri nets rules and you can do it. It's pure mathematics. The thing is it can take more time do it in a standard BPMS rather in a case management tool.

How long you don't look to activities in accordance with this perspective? Have you thought about the gaps lately? Where are your improvement opportunities? Your BPMS system allows this kind of analysis, or is just a repository of useless data stored in a database? Have you ever thought in Semantic BPM ? Something that can understand natural language and convert to what you are looking for somewhere lost in a database table using ontology management ? Did you know that most of the process improvement opportunities can't be identified using process maps? If anyone is trying to convince otherwise is telling you a very big lie! Wakeup More to come soon...

Some interesting debate about Process Modeling : Doing by Design, from Gartner's Jim Sinur. My thoughts about it: I don't agree with Keith when he says that "BPM is synonymous with BPMN graphical notation". Many people continue not to understand what BPMN is all about. Geeks say it's mandatory to execute BPEL in order to authoring BPM processes inside a BPMS suite, but as I far my experience goes I never saw any BPM suite doing it magically without a lot of hard code work. On the other hand, I see BPMN as a door to process oblivion, once people start using it incorrectly, I mean with all the stuff,and complex symbols attached (please don't read 2.0 draft, because it is more and more complex). By the way, I tested IBM's Lombardy that can't import true BPMN diagrams. This means that BPMN never become a standard at all. When designing something new, I prefer to use storyboards. I assemble a team with process facilitators, process team and end user...

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...