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Kiran Garimella's BPM Blog

When BPM becomes really NICE

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By Kiran Garimella on May 31, 2007 3:51 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I am back from a hectic round of travel: conferences, BPM Master Classes, client meetings, and vacation. I attended both the SharedInsights BPM conference in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, and the ISSSP conference in Scottsdale, AZ (yes, we evangelists live a... Read More..
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How can I say "no" to Paris and Frankfurt in April?

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By Kiran Garimella on April 13, 2007 11:34 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
...especially given that I live in Milwaukee? I just got back from a hectic tour in France and Germany. We held a BPM MasterClass in Frankfurt and Paris. This is the second time I have been in both cities; the... Read More..
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The death of BPM (it ain’t over until it’s really over)

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By Kiran Garimella on March 26, 2007 5:12 PM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes
At Gartner’s BPM Summit last month in San Diego, everything went fine until the last Gartner analyst left a lasting impression at the last session of the last day. Simon Hayward, VP and Gartner Fellow, who helped kick off the... Read More..
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eSeminar on BPM and Change Management

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By Kiran Garimella on March 14, 2007 9:39 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
"Understanding Business Process Management & the 'People' Factor of Process Change" This is the first of three e-seminars on business process management sponsored by Talisen Technologies. I have been invited to join Howard Webb (Principal, the BPM Group) in this... Read More..
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Making the future become what it could be

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By Kiran Garimella on February 21, 2007 9:36 AM 0 2 Vote 0 Votes
Recently I participated in a podcast with fellow ebizQ bloggers to make some fearless predictions for BPM in 2007. Making predictions, of course, is a dicey affair. There are only two ways to do it. Either you make a firm... Read More..
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The Arrogance of IT (don't read this post!)

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By Kiran Garimella on February 6, 2007 10:09 AM 2 0 Vote 0 Votes
Ignorance can be bliss. Knowledge can be dangerous. You have been warned! Several years ago, I remember reading about a top business executive who commented on the arrogance of IT. Paraphrasing his statement, “IT is the only function that is... Read More..

Paper, paper, everywhere, but nothing intelligent to read

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By Kiran Garimella on February 2, 2007 10:11 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Let me expand on the intersection of ECM and BPM from my earlier post. Enterprise content is basically of two kinds: (a) content that denotes knowledge of the what and the how of business operations (or processes, if you will);... Read More..
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Know thyself (or, BPM is an ECM disenfranchiser)

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By Kiran Garimella on January 30, 2007 12:19 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Most companies worry about what competitors are doing, how the economy is doing, what competitors are up to, and where interest rates are headed. (Which reminds me of the wag who said he knew exactly how interests would behave in... Read More..
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Slaughter all the tall ones

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By Kiran Garimella on January 25, 2007 6:45 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
At the beginning of the thirteenth century, the Tatars of the East were a ferocious people. They were very effective at raiding and plundering. Their most remarkable aspect was their speed of execution. They copied Caesar’s ‘Veni, vidi, vici’ mantra,... Read More..
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As versatile as Sanders, as safe as Blyton

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By Kiran Garimella on January 17, 2007 11:38 AM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes
I discovered Lawrence Sanders when I read his murder-mystery, First Deadly Sin, as an impressionable teenager. His writing is brilliant, the characterization is remarkable, and the plot is well orchestrated. The book was subsequently made into a unmemorable movie, with... Read More..
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Kiran Garimella

Dr. Kiran Garimella is a VP in the Office of the CTO at webMethods.Previously, he was the Chief Architect for GE Healthcare Financial Services (GE HFS), a $13 B global GE company, and prior to that, CIO for Equipment Finance, a $8 B P&L; of GE HFS. His 20-year work experience includes software development, management, consulting, research, and teaching.Kiran holds an MS in Computer Science, and a Ph.D. in Decision and Information Sciences from the University of Florida. He is the author of a business novel on BPM, The Power of Process: Unleashing the Source of Competitive Advantage. He is a frequent speaker at BPM conferences. He can be reached at Kiran.Garimella@webMethods.com.


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