Process comes before a smile in customer service

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Process comes before a smile in customer service
Tweet   When we are at the receiving end of poor customer service, it unfailingly ticks us off. Tweet

Smart Phones. Smarter Kids.

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Smart Phones. Smarter Kids.
Tweet   It has been a boring pattern for all of Mankind’s history that was ever recorded. Or, for that matter, not recorded. And you’d surely have noticed it yourself if you are from a big family and/or have a large circle of friends from different age-groups. Tweet

BPM and Love and all that sort of thing….

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BPM and Love and all that sort of thing….
Tweet   Last week, while I was in London on work, I had to stand around for over an hour outside a client’s office building, in the cursed cold weather, waiting for my colleague to show up. I could only enter the office with him as he was the one with access to the building [...]

Agility is not ONLY a Software Feature….

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Agility is not ONLY a Software Feature….
Tweet   One of the recurring themes in product demos in the recent past is that all too familiar spiel about being “technology for business”. To be sure, this T for B angle is a really good thing and all that. But it’s a problem when vendors lay that out freely and happily without having [...]

Social BPM : Time for a Reality Check

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Social BPM : Time for a Reality Check
Tweet   To me it seems that with the onset of ‘Social Media’, the bigger theme of  a ‘Social Paradigm’, and the associated chatter these have generated, has driven all of us into some kind of a ‘me-too’ mode. Almost everyone in the industry –  you and me included – has a point of view. [...]

Ok, That’s Enough. Let’s Now Do Some Real BPM.

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Ok, That’s Enough. Let’s Now Do Some Real BPM.
Tweet   All this Business Process Management talk is getting boring. And clichéd. Blogs. Forums. Communities. White papers. Analyst calls. Product vendor presentations. Webinars. Analyst events. One-on-one meetings. Gardens. Roof tops. Tweet

Leverage BPM to Kill the Silos. In Your Mind.

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Leverage BPM to Kill the Silos. In Your Mind.
Tweet   Even as the enterprise IT landscape evolved over the past decades, markets, economy, and technology forces have affected key considerations that dominate and influence annual IT budgets. The nature and the unique mix of these forces, in any given year, have correspondingly triggered a rather unique set of influencers shaping IT budgets. We [...]

#BPM Agility, Change, Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

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#BPM Agility, Change, Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
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Cutting A Deal

Categories: Business, IT Industry, Uncategorized
Cutting A Deal
Tweet   Here is a video that leaves very little to be said about a rather painful aspect of the vendor-customer relationship. Tweet

A Reality Check on Agility and BPM

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A Reality Check on Agility and BPM
Tweet   So, that BPM product demo excited you? The vendor demonstration of agile features may well have made your mouth water. You now think your investment in BPM licenses will make your firm agile. Tweet

Growing Out of Social Media Misconceptions

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Growing Out of Social Media Misconceptions
Tweet   I read this rather interesting piece on Knowledge@Wharton, titled Is Business-centric Social Networking a Revolution — or a Ruse? The Article discusses Social Networking adoption in the enterprise. Tweet

Are You Letting Good get in the way of Better?

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Are You Letting Good get in the way of Better?
Tweet   To me, if there is only one striking difference between a BPM solution and a conventionally developed application, then it is the opportunity to unlock hidden potential for improvements. Tweet

Time to Get Cracking With BPM

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Time to Get Cracking With BPM
Tweet A little more than a fortnight ago, I had bounced a few thoughts about how BPM should not merely be about automation but should instead be about unlocking competitive advantage. Tweet

Enable, Empower, Improve, Unlock: Your #bpm Mantra!

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Enable, Empower, Improve, Unlock: Your #bpm Mantra!
Tweet BPM should be about exercising and asserting your firms business priorities,  along its lines of control. Especially lines at the top and the bottom. Tweet

#BPM in 2011 – Looking Back and Looking Forward

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#BPM in 2011 – Looking Back and Looking Forward
Tweet 2010 was a good year for BPM – more firms took to BPM, while many firms already using BPM set off to unlock more value from BPM; most top vendors posted another year of great growth; overall BPM visibility increased significantly and it is gradually becoming less of a concept understood only by few [...]

Social Media – The Stage is Being Set for #BPM

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Social Media – The Stage is Being Set for #BPM
Tweet An article from BNet that I had come across few months ago  presented findings from a Nielson survey on how Social Media networks like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc broke down by age. The data was very interesting because the more active users – comprising of over two thirds of the total number users – [...]

IBM’s Lombardi Acquisition – Will there Be A Shuffle In The BPMS Market!?

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IBM’s Lombardi Acquisition – Will there Be A Shuffle In The BPMS Market!?
Tweet The news has really created quite a buzz and almost everyone who is following BPM is excited about this announcement. Tweet

IT priorities, Return on Investment from #bpm and the CEO

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IT priorities, Return on Investment from #bpm and the CEO
Tweet The recession may have started to ease up, but the pressure on CEOs to get more competitive and drive growth will continue. Alongside that, the need to keep a closer watch on expenditure is likely to also continue for sometime. This is particularly true about IT investments – something that took quite a big [...]

IBM #SWUIN

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IBM #SWUIN
Tweet This years IBM event – Software Universe –  was bigger with record participation of over 2500 and over 300 certifications as claimed by an official tweet from IBM (IBM also uses the occasion to offer certifications to interested software pros.) Tweet

Emerging from one era, into another…

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Emerging from one era, into another…
Tweet Even as we begin to hear about the easing up of the recessionary phase, it is not difficult to see that things are not going to be the same as they were before. Tweet

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