I really appreciated the provocative post by Chris Taylor on the potential of Social BPM to replace emails in business processes. While I see the final statement there a little bit too optimistic, total replacement is definitely in my dreams and I agree on the general trend.Actually, I see we are already in a hybrid … Continue reading Mobile and consumerization — keys for event-based Social BPM?
Today I wish to share with you some details about a new project I'll be involved in throughout the next three years. The project is called CUbRIK and addresses advanced search techniques and tools for multimedia and multimodal search, based on content-intensive, time-intensive and human-intensive scalable processes. The project aims at experimenting the integration of … Continue reading CUbRIK: content-intensive, time-intensive and human-intensive scalable search
Today at the BPMN 2011 workshop in Luzern, Bruce Silver gave an interesting talk on the status of BPMN 2.0, its adoption, and his proposal for improving its general usage.I really appreciated the talk because:it focused on the ambiguities of the BPMN notation, even in the so acclaimed 2.0 versionit highlighted how users tend to … Continue reading Bruce Silver’s keynote speech at BPMN 2011 workshop: interoperability and other issues in BPMN and UML
Tomorrow (November 21st) I'll present two contributions to the 3rd international BPMN workshop in Luzern, Switzerland.My first speech will present our proposed notation for representing Social Business Processes within Social BPM scenarios. Social networking is more and more considered as crucial for helping organizations harness the value of informal relationships and weak ties, without compromising … Continue reading Representing Social BPM and WebML at the BPMN workshop 2011
Andrei Broder, Yahoo! ResearchAndrei Broder from Yahoo! Research gave two seminars at Politecnico di Milano on introduction to internet monetization (in Como) and on targeted advertising (in Milano) as a branch of computational advertising.Computational advertising is about finding the best match between a given user in a given context and a suitable advertisement.The context can … Continue reading Andrei Broder, Yahoo! VP on computational advertising: Seminar on Targeted Advertising.
Just to keep track of the events I've been involved recently, here is a quick summary of the seminar I gave together with Stefano Butti at SMAU Milano 2011. The topic was Social BPM. You can find here some picture, an interview (in Italian) and the slides I used (in English).Other pictures of the event … Continue reading Seminar on Social BPM at SMAU 2011 Milano
This is a quick visual summary of the event held at Villa Grumello, Como, Italy, on October 14th, 2011 for the celebration of the 10 years of WebRatio:Further pictures of the event are available on the WebRatio blog. Some of the ideas I presented there are described in my previous post.The presentation I gave at … Continue reading 10 years of WebRatio (and 15 of WebML)
This is the presentatio I gave at the 10 Years celebration of WebRatio:The WebML innovation cyclehttp://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=10yearsofwebratio-innovationcycle-111014054243-phpapp01&stripped_title=the-webml-innovation-cycle&userName=mbrambilView more presentations from Marco Brambilla.To keep updated on my activities you can subscribe to the RSS feed of my blog or follow my twitter account (@MarcoBrambi).
Tomorrow we will celebrate 10 years of WebRatio: this is a good occasion for thinking about the path that led from a university research project to a recognized modeling language (WebML) and a solid, industrialized version of a toolsuite (WebRatio).The main ingredient of our history are basically: - a substrate for cross-fertilization coming from European … Continue reading 10 years of WebRatio: thinking about our path to industrialization
A huge discussion is ongoing on how to implement the social enterprise paradigm and on why it doesn't seem to deliver as expected.Obviously, social enterprise is a broad term that comprises a large number of very diverse problems addressed and solutions that can be adopted, within a variety of business scenarios (including social CRM, social … Continue reading The social enterprise options
