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Gartner’s Pattern-Based Strategies: The Emperor has no Clothes! Part II
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Thoughts on IBM’s Acquisition of Lombardi
This week IBM acquired Lombardi and BPM blogs are full of discussions about the merits and demerits of the acquisition. I also commented about it in my post on an eBizQ Forum that I did not see any major changes in the dynamics of the industry based on this acquisition or its aftermaths. Lombardi is [...]
What BPM can Learn from Robotics
In a previous business in the mid-Eighties I developed a commercial system using lab robots, and that experience gave me an understanding of the dynamics of the robotics industry. Robots were invented in the US. The first company to market commercial robots was Unimation of Danbury, Connecticut. Its leader, Joseph Engleberer, is considered the “father [...]
Social Networking and BPM of the Future
A couple of months ago, I saw an online video by Google about their upcoming Google Wave platform for social networking. As I watched it, my mind raced back to the early 1990s when Lotus was the rising star and was introducing Lotus Notes as a revolutionary new groupware platform. Lotus was a pioneer and [...]
Don't Forget the Business Process Ecosystem!
There is lot of angst about Business Process Management (BPM). Reading the blogs, press articles and analyst reports one hears the frequent complaint that different people and organizations have different understanding of BPM, BPM standards are lagging, the technology and the terminology is confusing, and that there are too many vendors of all different types [...]
Could BPM have saved the World from the Sub-Prime Debacle?
The sub-prime driven economic meltdown has become a global crisis that is on the minds of everyone, including those of us in the business software community. Some of us, enamored by the potential and logic of software, strongly believe that the way to prevent such crisis in the future is through greater investment in software [...]
Is the BPM Industry stuck in no-man’s land?
I have noticed three constants in my 14-years in the BPM/workflow industry. First, every BPM market forecast prepared by reputable firms has estimated a market size of anywhere from $1 to $3 billion, and a growth rate ranging from 10% to 20% per annum. Even if I take a conservative forecast and assume that the [...]