BrainStorm2007: April 2007 Archives

Last session of the day for me: I'm headed off to the airport following this, although I realize that the probability of a flight in or out of Chicago being on time when it's snowing is near zero. With some... Read More..

I'm starting to see more and more familiar faces at these BPM conferences, and this one is no exception: I've met Gregg Rock and Tom Dwyer of BPMInstitute.org at a couple of conferences now, finally met Brett Champlin at the... Read More..

For the first breakout session of the day, I attended Ken Orr's talk on Business Process Driven Enterprise Architecture. He started out with some observations: improving business processes is essential for enterprises; business architecture is critical; modelling is critical; and business... Read More..

Following our morning break in the beautiful but sadly lacking in hot water (for tea) vendor showcase area is a panel moderated by Tom Dwyer on Transforming to a Process-Driven Enterprise, featuring speakers from Adobe (Ashish Agrawal) and BEA (John... Read More..

As an engineer, I love to hear about design, and I really liked Jeremy Alexis' talk on a Framework for Making Better Decisions during Product Definition. He teaches at the local Institute of Design (and has a blog about one... Read More..

I didn't come to Chicago specifically for the snow, but it didn't disappoint me nonetheless: big wet snow dripping down, just enough to get me wet crossing the road from my hotel to the Drake. We started the day with... Read More..

Tom Dwyer of BPMInstitute.org/BrainStorm Group finished up today's formal sessions with Enabling Business Process Innovation. As he pointed out, innovation is what drives company growth, and he listed the types of innovation that can be seen in organizations: Business model,... Read More..

I switched streams to the business rules symposium for the last breakout session of the day, The End of Requirements, because the description sounded too good to miss: Business wants control of the business back. For years we've lived with... Read More..

Peter Gilbertson is a  senior business analyst at CUNA Mutual, and his session was on Talking Process to Executives: Process, Tools and Techniques to Sell your BPM Project, which is about how to "sell" your BPM project to the people... Read More..

Bruce and I changed between the same two sessions, although he was leading both sessions and I was sitting back blogging. This one is a panel of four BPMS vendors, Global 360, IBM, Savvion and BEA, to discuss What's Next... Read More..

There's an awful lot of keynotes in this conference: a couple of overall sessions this morning, now "track keynotes" for each of the four tracks within the BPM conference. I'm in Bruce Silver's New Directions in BPM Tools and Technology... Read More..

Since I arrived late, my day started with Brett Champlin's keynote, BPM Triage -- A Health and Wellness Model for Enterprise Business Processes. I know Brett through ABPMP, but he's also Brett uses a healthcare analogy for applying process management... Read More..

The hotel wifi just kicked in, so I have a couple of posts queued up. I'm at the BrainStorm BPM conference in Chicago, and just flew in this morning so missed the initial keynotes (Enabling the Process-Centric Agile Enterprise and... Read More..