Process Performance Blog

Is BPMS just the new word for application development?
With the recent acquisitions of Lombardi and Savvion, some are questioning the long term viability of BPMS vendors. They may be right, they may be wrong, but certainly things are changing. If you look at some of the key players in the BPM...
Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com | 20th February '10

Oracle to buy Metastorm?
With the blogs and news services full of the story of IBM's acquisition of Lomabardi, I thought it might be nice to look at what else might be happening out there. As others have stated we have no idea of the price paid and so what premium or...
Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com | 17th December '09

Business Booming in France?
Last week I had the opportunity to spend a few days in Paris. It is a City that I know pretty well, having lived there in 2000. On this occasion though I was not there to admire the Christmas lights on the Champs Elysee or relax watching the world...
Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com | 17th December '09

What can BPM Vendors Learn From the iPhone?
Over the past few weeks I have been in contact with a lot more BPMS vendors than I would normally speak with. I have found it fascinating to see and hear how many of them are wrestling with the same issue. How can I make my product stand out from...
Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com | 5th November '09

Casewise; Taking a Fresh Look
Yesterday I was invited to attend a meeting of the Casewise User Group in Watford. As many of you know I am, of course, more familiar with the offerings from Popkin, MEGA and Proforma, having worked for those organizations. So it was good to have...
Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com | 15th October '09

"Chunking" as a Tool for Effective Process Communication and Change
The principle of Chunking is said to have first been put forward in the 1950s by George A. Miller, a Harvard psychologist. Most people today will be familiar with the theory he put forward The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two. The original...
Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com | 21st April '09

The Process of Change
With the phenomenal pressure on organizations to make changes, and fast, it is inevitable that processes are increasingly seen as a key to success. If you, like me, spend time talking with people about how they will go about understanding and...
Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com | 7th April '09

FREE Mapping & Modelling Survey Report Now Available
At last, after weeks of poring over the details and reading the responses, the report is now available. The report gathers together the thoughts and responses from over 500 people around the globe, making it probably the most comprehensive report...
Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com | 14th March '09

Effectual vs. Efficient
This particular blog article has been running around in my head for some weeks now. But having listened to Barack Obama's speech to congress this week and come across an article by the BBC business editor, Robert Peston. I decided that I could...
Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com | 26th February '09

Mapping vs Modelling
If we think about maps the most familiar to us is the road map. Then we can have many maps together and create a road atlas. These are great for allowing us to see where we are and where we might want to go. We could even use our maps to trace a...
Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com | 9th February '09