Blogs By Category: Business Technology

Revisiting Business Agility through BPM

May 24 2013 | Author: Setrag Khoshafian
The recent economic turmoil has elevated the importance of “agility” for enterprises. The first few weeks of 2010 were great as we were hopeful that we were on a path to recovery. But we soon learned the recovery is rather tepid and slow moving. There...
Posted In: BPM | Tags: Agility, Business Process Management, Business Transformation, Business Technology, BPMS, Flexible, Situational

BPM, Paradigm Shifts and Incommensurability

May 24 2013 | Author: Don Schuerman
I was a bit of a PhiSci (that's Philosophy of Science) geek in college--having a double major in Physics and Philosophy will do that to you.  One of the seminal works in the field is Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.  Kuhn theori...
Posted In: BPM | Tags: Business Process Management, Business Transformation, Business Technology, Transformation, Revolution

The Hunt for the "Universal Device"

May 24 2013 | Author: Don Schuerman
Farhad Manjoo has a new article today at Slate on the trend towards "universal" devices.  No consumer (or corporation) is happy to buy or produce just an MP3 player.  Instead those devices bring in more functions (cameras, voice recorders, mail programs...
Tags: Business Process Management, Business Technology, BRE, Unified

Creating New Jobs and Preserving Existing Ones with BPM

May 24 2013 | Author: Setrag Khoshafian
When we think of BPM and process improvement, often the ROI is characterized through eliminating “waste” or manual steps and replacing them with process automation. An activity based costing analysis could identify opportunities to remove manual steps...
Posted In: BPM | Tags: Automate, Efficiency, Business Process Management, Continuous Improvement, Lean Six Sigma, Business Transformation, Business Technology, BRE, BPM SOA BI

What's Wrong with Traditional Development?

May 24 2013 | Author: Don Schuerman
A customer recently asked why they should choose a BPM approach like ours over a pure Java-based solution. I think it boils down to a few key factors. A lot of customers I work with chose our BPM over traditional, code-based development.  While our Sm...
Tags: Automate, Business Technology

Technology in the cloud, but not out of control

May 24 2013 | Author: John Everhard
It’s easy to recognise a potential conflict emerging between the hard-pressed CEO looking to cloud computing to cut costs and his CIO concerned about a consequent loss of control. Yet as developments in the Business Process Management arena have alre...
Tags: Automate, Efficiency, Business Technology, Cloud Computing, PaaS, SaaS

Layer Cakes and Coca Cola

 
Jul 06 2009
Here at Pegasystems we have this concept of a "situational layer cake" to describe how we produce the appropriate result depending on a multi-dimensional matrix of dynamic variables. If the audience is deeply into computer programming you can actually say...
Tags: Business Technology, Layer Cake
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