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Easy Exchange of Process Models Between Tools

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com) — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:20:00 +0100

For years now one of the great challenges faced by those using a process modeling tool is how to exchange data. With the advent of BPEL and XPDL the sharing of model data with execution tools became... [Read More...]

Lisbon through the eyes of Process

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com) — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:40:00 +0100

Last year, while at a conference, I was challenged by delegates! The challenge, should I be willing to accept it, was to test whether I really could find ideas and inspiration for process improvement... [Read More...]

Is there really an Enterprise Architecture market?

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com) — Wed, 26 May 2010 06:17:00 +0100

Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Gartner EA Conference in London. Although the event appeared to be well attended from a delegate perspective, the same cannot be said for the exhibitors!... [Read More...]

Playing With Casewise's New iPad App

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com) — Tue, 18 May 2010 19:38:00 +0100

If you have been following my tweets then you will know that I was lucky enough top pick up an Apple iPad a few weeks ago while in the USA, and I have to say I love it! Some of you may already be... [Read More...]

Is BPMS just the new word for application development?

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com) — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:34:00 +0100

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... [Read More...]

Oracle to buy Metastorm?

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:08:00 +0100

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... [Read More...]

Business Booming in France?

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:42:00 +0100

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... [Read More...]

What can BPM Vendors Learn From the iPhone?

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:02:00 +0100

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... [Read More...]

Casewise; Taking a Fresh Look

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:21:00 +0100

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... [Read More...]

"Chunking" as a Tool for Effective Process Communication and Change

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:10:00 +0100

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... [Read More...]

The Process of Change

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:58:00 +0100

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... [Read More...]

FREE Mapping & Modelling Survey Report Now Available

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com) — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:13:00 +0100

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,... [Read More...]

Effectual vs. Efficient

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com) — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:22:00 +0100

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... [Read More...]

Mapping vs Modelling

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com) — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:29:00 +0100

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... [Read More...]

Procedure vs. Process

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com) — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:07:00 +0100

In the course of undertaking the Mapping and Modelling survey a number of interesting areas of uncertainty or confusion became apparent. So I thought that maybe I would try and address one of them;... [Read More...]

Getting More From The Same

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com) — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:18:00 +0100

Last month I was invited to join a panel of speakers at the launch of a new report into productivity. The report by the Management Consultants Association and sponsored by Trinity Horne, makes very... [Read More...]

New Mapping & Modeling Tool Survey

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com) — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:24:00 +0100

What is really happening out there in the Business Process Mapping and Modelling market, are people actually buying and using tools? Are they using specialist tools or just the modeling front ends... [Read More...]

Conferences Galore!

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com) — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:03:00 +0100

The conference circuit seems to be even busier this autumn than those that have gone before. With the major Gartner BPM event having taken place in the USA in September and events by IRM and... [Read More...]

Process Management in the Boardroom

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com) — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:14:00 +0100

The success of CEOs like Sam Walton (WalMart), Fred West (federal Express), Herb Kelleher (Southwest Airlines) and Jack Welch (GE) has been pretty amazing. They have delivered some outstanding... [Read More...]

Product Innovation Alive and Well (and Living in Scotland!)

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:50:00 +0100

For many years now I have watched the UK Software industry seem to wither away. The software jobs being outsourced around the world or pulled back to Head Office locations. There has never been an issue... [Read More...]

Are you really doing BPM?

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:07:00 +0100

In Europe, as in the States, the conference market around Business Process Management (BPM) has been buzzing for a while. They can be great places to mix with real people and to hear what they are... [Read More...]

BPMN and Executable Businesses: When Will We Learn

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com) — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:29:00 +0100

A quick look around the blogs and latest articles reveals a lot of discussion (again!) about BPMN and what it is and should be used for. We seem to have endless debates about why and how it is easy... [Read More...]

Destination Dubai

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com) — Thu, 29 May 2008 10:39:00 +0100

Last week saw me attending the IIR BPM conference in Dubai. The event which took place 19th-20th May, was my first opportunity to actual stay in Dubai, usually I am just passing through on my way... [Read More...]

Focus on Removing Waste not Cost

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:56:00 +0100

So at last, governments around the world have woken up to what businesses have known for a long time - we are in a downturn, which seems set to turn into a recession. So with everyone scurrying... [Read More...]

BPM Without Technology

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:03:00 +0100

To many the idea of Business process Management (BPM) without technology is considered heresy, after all most of the marketing dollars that are spent promoting BPM are spent by the software vendors... [Read More...]

Customer Age Thinking - Changing the face of Public Service

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com) — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:18:00 +0100

In many countries, the phrase public service is considered something of an anachronism. At all levels of government and government led services, customers perceive that overall they get a raw deal... [Read More...]

India's TATA: Perhaps The Most Impressive BPM Success So Far?

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com) — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:03:00 +0100

Regular readers, training course and conference delegates who know me, know that I work with a much wider definition of BPM than many. They know that for me BPM is interpreted as Business Process... [Read More...]

The Three M's of BPM

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com) — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:41:00 +0100

It used to be quite simple, we used to have and do BPM right? Then of course we learned that we did not do BPM but instead BPM, now owe are being told that it is not BPM or indeed BPM that we need to... [Read More...]

Bumper End for BPM in 2007 - Personally Speaking

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com) — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:45:00 +0100

Well thanks to many of you reading this, 2007 has been a truly memorable year for me in the BPM arena. I said when the year started that I hoped to visit as many countries as possible with my 2007... [Read More...]

Updated 8 Omega Framework

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, MarkMcGregor.com) — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:00:00 +0100

It is now over two years since we released the original 8 Omega Framework. During that time it has been adopted and adapted by literally hundreds of organizations around the globe. Despite the demise... [Read More...]