A lot of discussions are ongoing on the motivations and role of social BPM, in particular on how and when it should impact on the classical BPM lifecycle.In terms of motivations, I think the social extension of a business process can be regarded as a specific optimization phase, where the organization seeks efficiency by extending … Continue reading Social BPM: motivation and impact on the BPM lifecycle
Alec Sharp giving his speech at IRM BPM EuropeOne of the highlight of the BPM Europe event (especially for the BPM hardcore people, at least 🙂 has been the speech given by Alec Sharp on June 9th.The main point of the discussion is again that the human issues are the key for effective business process … Continue reading Alec Sharp at IRM BPM Europe – Soft stuff is the hard stuff
Keith Swenson keynote speech at the Social Business Forum2011 on the Quantum EnterpriseToday I attended the Social Business Forum 2011 in Milan. It was a great event, with a huge line of speakers and events. The audience was huge (1200+ people I think), so big praise to Open Knowledge for the organization. If you want … Continue reading Social Business Forum 2011: Keith Swenson keynote speech on the Quantum Enterprise
In this post I wish to summarize the opinions and the discussions on the hot topic Social BPM. I think this provides a good understanding of the topic and a feeling on the debate that is still ongoing. If you know about other useful references, feel free to add them (self-citations are also welcome). Also, … Continue reading Social BPM: links, references and resources
Together with Piero Fraternali and Carmen Vaca Ruiz I've recently written a chapter published within the Social BPM Handbook.The book is published by Future Strategies in association with the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) in the BPM and Workflow Handbook Series and will be launched at Social Business Forum 2011 on June 8, 2011 in Milan, … Continue reading A Model-driven Approach to Social BPM Applications
Turning a business process model into the specification, design and implementation of a software solution for process enactment is a non trivial task. It might be considered as not so relevant by business analysts (that typically focus more on BPR and BP optimization), but I think it's a crucial issue anyway.Indeed, the specified processes can … Continue reading Multi-faceted BPM: Turning a business process model into software automation
In case you didn't see it, here is the short introductory video about WebRatio, in which a speaker highlights the main features of the MDD tool based on WebML:[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDrWaKSlSvY]You can also find some audio lessons on WebML on my official web site.
I've come across the concerns of Keith Swenson and Anatoly Belychook on the missing expressive power of BPMN with respect to the description of human decisions in business processes. Bruce Silver has tackled the problem too.I (together with my research group and the WebRatio team) definitely share their concern. After some discussions, experiments, and on-the-field … Continue reading User gateways in BPMN?
Yesterday, November 24, I gave a seminar at Politecnico di Bari. Here are the slides (just an excerpt from another, broader slideset I prepared)WebML, BPM, and WebRatiohttp://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=webmlpolibari-101125071708-phpapp02&stripped_title=webml-and-webr&userName=mbrambilView more presentations from Marco Brambilla.[googlemaps https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Politecnico+Di+Bari&sll=37.230328,-95.712891&sspn=49.543298,114.169922&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Politecnico+Di+Bari,+Via+Giovanni+Amendola,+132,+70126+Bari,+Puglia,+Italy&ll=41.109598,16.881009&spn=0.09299,0.222988&z=13&output=embed&w=425&h=350]
I've been quite excited at the announcement of IBM Blueworks Live by Phil Gilbert at BPM 2010 last September, and the expectations kept growing until the last weekend.The I read the blog post by Sandy Kemsley and I thought: all right, that's a preview, let's wait for the final site. Then I went through the … Continue reading Much ado about nothing? — reconsidering IBM Blueworks Live
