http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/pp/ Tom Allanson of PerfectForms shares his ideas on managing business processes, automating workflows and designing for business users - both in the cloud and on the ground. en-us Copyright 2012 Tue, 22 Feb 2011 12:01:29 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.37 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss I just finished reading this great article by David Caruso of Information Management, "Bringing Agility to Business Intelligence," which focuses on the challenges organizations face in trying to get their BI deployments to keep up with the pace of their... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/pp/2011/02/dont-remove-the-intelligence-from-bi.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/pp/2011/02/dont-remove-the-intelligence-from-bi.php Tue, 22 Feb 2011 12:01:29 -0500 tomallanson At home and at work, people are being asked to do more with less these days, a trend that is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. The nation is slowly climbing out of a recession which means that business... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/pp/2010/10/todays-lesson-doing-more-with-less-taught-by-visalia-school-district.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/pp/2010/10/todays-lesson-doing-more-with-less-taught-by-visalia-school-district.php Cloud Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:02:52 -0500 tomallanson I just had to share how happy I am that today is World Paper Free Day, an initiative from AIIM (the Association for Information and Image Management). In a post on their website, AIIM draws attention to a powerful reality... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/pp/2010/10/aiims-world-paper-free-day-paying-our-respects.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/pp/2010/10/aiims-world-paper-free-day-paying-our-respects.php Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:28:11 -0500 tomallanson I recently came across some Gartner research insights from almost a year ago that I had read previously and enjoyed. The findings concerned "citizen developers" - people creating solutions outside of the jurisdiction of enterprise IT. Discussed at the Gartner... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/pp/2010/10/citizen-developers-unite-avoiding-tool-anarchy.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/pp/2010/10/citizen-developers-unite-avoiding-tool-anarchy.php Business Process Management Wed, 06 Oct 2010 15:50:39 -0500 tomallanson There has been much discussion lately of the momentum surrounding "social BPM" - a term loosely defined as business process management involving direct feedback from external and internal stakeholders and therefore, constant improvement. I think a much more appropriate term... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/pp/2010/09/social-bpm---a-new-name-for-an-old-concept.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/pp/2010/09/social-bpm---a-new-name-for-an-old-concept.php Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:51:24 -0500 tomallanson Last week I shared my views on a question posed by Robert Mitchell - who should lead BPM? As I've contended many times before, I'm of the opinion that a business user should ultimately make the final decisions and maintain... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/pp/2010/08/in-bpm-b-stands-for-business---part-two.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/pp/2010/08/in-bpm-b-stands-for-business---part-two.php Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:26:35 -0500 tomallanson "Who should lead a business performance management project: IT, finance or both?" Robert Mitchell of Computerworld asked this question in a recent article, entitled "Who Should Lead BPM?" In the piece, Mitchell asks several IT and finance tech company pros... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/pp/2010/08/in-bpm-b-stands-for-business.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/pp/2010/08/in-bpm-b-stands-for-business.php Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:52:25 -0500 tomallanson As most of us have figured out by now, SaaS is here to stay. Just in case you had any doubts, both IDC and Gartner issued reports this week chronicling the recent double-digit gains in the marketplace that we'll continue... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/pp/2010/07/like-it-or-not-were-getting-saasy.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/pp/2010/07/like-it-or-not-were-getting-saasy.php Business Process Management Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:45:36 -0500 tomallanson A few weeks ago ebizQ's BPM Forum asked a question I've heard many times in the past few months: will 2010 be the year of BPM? It got me thinking not just because we tend to quickly put labels on... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/pp/2010/07/the-year-ofbroken-promises.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/pp/2010/07/the-year-ofbroken-promises.php Business Process Management Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:31:49 -0500 tomallanson Overnight delivery services like FedEx and UPS have done a tremendous job automating their processes to the point that many of us take for granted the ability to track a package en route, and learn exactly when it will arrive.... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/pp/2010/07/stop-asking-what-can-brown-do-for-you-ask-what-can-you-do-for-yourself.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/pp/2010/07/stop-asking-what-can-brown-do-for-you-ask-what-can-you-do-for-yourself.php Business Process Management Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:33:00 -0500 tomallanson I read a blog post on Enterprise Irregulars by Sandy Kemsley the other day on BPM Summer Camp, a tutorial session she's created to help business people (in the case of an upcoming presentation) understand BPMN - or business process... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/pp/2010/06/bpmn-my-what-a-handsome-workflow-you-have.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/pp/2010/06/bpmn-my-what-a-handsome-workflow-you-have.php Business Process Management Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:33:30 -0500 tomallanson Jon Brodkin recently wrote a thought-provoking, if controversial, piece in Network World highlighting the common misconceptions surrounding cloud computing. Even though it seems like cloud computing and cloud applications affect every aspect of our business lives (which I don't feel... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/pp/2010/05/as-accurate-as-a-weatherman-from-1950.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/pp/2010/05/as-accurate-as-a-weatherman-from-1950.php Business Process Management Fri, 28 May 2010 13:27:38 -0500 tomallanson It's hard not to have noticed the recent rash of acquisitions over the past few weeks, from Oracle acquiring both Secerno and Market2Lead within the span of a week to SAP's lofty purchase of Sybase. For the most part this... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/pp/2010/05/two-two-more.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/pp/2010/05/two-two-more.php Business Process Management Fri, 28 May 2010 13:19:38 -0500 tomallanson BPM is an exceptional tool for increasing enterprise productivity, as has been firmly established. What many people don't realize is that the "business" in "business process management" can represent organizations of any kind. A customer, the University of Tennessee at... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/pp/2010/05/bpm-best-practices-in-higher-education-letting-the-kids-run-free.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/pp/2010/05/bpm-best-practices-in-higher-education-letting-the-kids-run-free.php BI Wed, 19 May 2010 09:40:28 -0500 tomallanson Electronic Health Records (EHRs) will undoubtedly improve care once we navigate the long and winding road of how to implement them. One way to make the journey easier is to realize that there will be workflows at medical practices, hospitals... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/pp/2010/05/thinking-outside-the-ehr-box.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/pp/2010/05/thinking-outside-the-ehr-box.php Business Process Management Wed, 12 May 2010 15:59:26 -0500 tomallanson