April 2006 Archives

Concurrent Business Engineering with Business Rules

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By James Taylor on April 27, 2006 9:22 AM 0 5 Vote 0 Votes
A great report by Randy Heffner of Forrester caught my eye this week on Concurrent Business Engineering. He wrote it nearly a year ago but I was reading about the Digital Business Architecture ideas Forrester has and got linked to... Read More..
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Brainstorm conference, BPM/SOA/BRM/PM/EA

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By James Taylor on April 24, 2006 2:05 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I attended the recent Brainstorm Group conference in Chicago and was struck by what a great combination the conference covers: Business Process Management and Business Process Management Suites to automate and control business processes SOA as an architectural approach to... Read More..
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Business rules and connecting strategy with execution

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By James Taylor on April 17, 2006 10:28 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
My fellow blogger, Keith Harrison-Broninski who writes the IT Directions blog, had a great post on The strategy disconnect - when guidance meets practice. While his thrust is around management practices, his comment that "Only in this way can you... Read More..
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Crossing the IT/business chasm

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By James Taylor on April 13, 2006 8:51 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Reading ebizQ today, as I do every day of course, I saw Zygmunt Jackowski's article Bridging the IT-Business Gap With BPM and SOA (Part I). I don't disagree with Zygmunt that neither BPM nor SOA is going to be a... Read More..
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New rules for the government

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By James Taylor on April 10, 2006 8:49 AM 0 1 Vote 0 Votes
Interesting post by Ronan over on his blog - Governments and SOA. One quote in particular caught my eye - "It's about ensuring that our organisations can change to be able to deliver change". There is a growing interest in... Read More..
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SOA and Business Rules, perfect together

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By James Taylor on April 6, 2006 12:03 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
The widespread implementation of service-oriented architectures has shown that we have moved past the early adoption phase. The name of the game is to create a set of modular software applications that can work together and allow each component of... Read More..
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Business agility in a litigious society

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By James Taylor on April 5, 2006 3:55 PM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes
Most of you will have seen recent news about GEICO being sued for discrimination - Blacks Sue GEICO For Race Discrimination In Auto Insurance Rates for example. For those of you who aren't familiar, GEICO is being sued for discrimination... Read More..
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Platforms, platforms, platforms

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By James Taylor on April 4, 2006 12:08 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Tower Group's Jerry Silva recently published on ".NET vs. J2EE: Does the Future of Service-Orientation Hang on Myth and Misconception" He has some great data on platform preferences in various industries, especially banking, and about how people perceive the two... Read More..
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Why manage decisions?

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By James Taylor on April 3, 2006 9:02 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I read a lot these days about managed IT in one from or another - managed systems, managed processes, managed management and so on. So why manage decisions? First let's be clear what a "decision" is in this context. A... Read More..
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