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I'm Moving On. Au Revoir! 21 Mar 2013 | 11:30 am
At least, I hope I'll see you again. The Spring equinox seems the perfect time to announce new beginnings. At the start, back in late 2009, this blog was focussed on a single idea: that the essential ...
The Risks In Social Without Governance 19 Mar 2013 | 10:30 am
If I were a Chief Risk Officer, I'd definitely have social on my radar. There's a huge enthusiasm for collaboration and a fascination with the tools and platforms that enable it. Which is great. Essen...
Social Business: It's Culture First 18 Mar 2013 | 11:30 am
Spotted in a client meeting room. One of several similarly challenging messages randomly posted around the room, each one as refreshingly vibrant. A neat reminder that social business may be enabled b...
Future BPM - The Enterprise Platform 15 Mar 2013 | 12:10 pm
I’ve argued previously that sustainable success in complex global enterprises depends upon effective collaboration, and that process is the language that best enables it. I’ve also argued that BPMN is...
BPM and The Language of Process 13 Mar 2013 | 02:10 pm
There’s a ferment of ideas about the meaning and future – even the very existence - of Business Process Management (BPM). Side-stepping those impassioned debates, I want to offer what seem to me to be...
What's The Point Of International Women's Day? 8 Mar 2013 | 11:15 am
It’s easy to scan the data to hand and convince ourselves of a truth. Marissa Mayer leads Yahoo! Ginni Rometty is Chairman, President and CEO of IBM. Many of us have women co-workers and line managers...
Why Are So Many IT Projects Successful? 1 Mar 2013 | 01:15 pm
It's bizarre how many major IT projects are 'successful'. Imagine buying dinner for your loved ones at a restaurant where the service was always slow, the bill was usually well beyond the prices shown...
Shared Services: In Search Of The Missing Benefits 27 Feb 2013 | 01:15 pm
There's an intriguing backdrop to Deloitte's 2013 Global Shared Services Survey report, just published. Why are so many business cases being missed in shared services? The survey confirms that things ...
Burning Platforms 25 Feb 2013 | 01:15 pm
Organizations with low levels of process maturity seem to fall into two camps. In the binge culture, process gets attention only sporadically, driven most often by upcoming audits. More commonly, proc...
When Process Standardization Backfires 21 Feb 2013 | 03:18 pm
Current orthodoxy is that process standardization is a Good Thing. People are committing enormous resources to programmes to deliver global processes supported by a common toolset. It's driving busine...
