Kiran Garimella's BPM Blog

This is for real...no kidding! You do enjoy hanging out on Facebook or LinkedIn or MySpace or whatever is your cup of poison, right? I'm sure you don't do it on company time, of course (wink, wink), but what if... Read More..

A SOA architect and evangelist friend of mine from Sweden sent me a link to a commentary on a provocative blog post by Anne Thomas Manes.  While reading these articles, I was reminded of the phrase that caused me much... Read More..

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..

...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..

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..

"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..

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..

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..

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..

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..