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Management guru Tom Peters, in his most recent work, The Little Big Things: 163 Ways to Pursue Excellence, talks about the importance of design as a part of continuous improvement. The important thing is that design is not just something... Read More..

In recent weeks, I have been doing some work and investigation on the possibilities of deploying enterprise content management in the cloud. As part of this project, I heard from Seth Earley, president and CEO of Earley & Associates, who... Read More..

Readers of this blogsite may notice that we've changed the name from "SOA in Action" to "Business Transformation in Action."The change reflects the evolution of the ebizQ site from coverage of a collection of the leading technology initiatives to focus... Read More..

Mike Gammage took a close look at IBM's latest study of 3,000 CIOs from around the world and noticed something about their commitment to business process management: It's not as strong as it was before -- down by four percentage... Read More..

Does Software as a Service and business process management belong together? That's the question asked by ebizQ contributor Alan Earls. Alan reports that leading analysts are positive about the concept of SaaS-delivered BPM -- but cautious: Consider what Forrester Research's... Read More..

Forrester's Clay Richardson just published a piece at the ebizQ site that connects the dots between business process management and crowdsourcing. As he points out, there are profound benefits that can come out of a well-organized crowdsourcing process: the internal... Read More..

IDC just released some data that shows that the worldwide business process management (BPM) and middleware market recovered strongly from its 2009 growth slump and for 2010 revenue totaled nearly $16.1 billion, representing growth of 9.2% - up sharply from... Read More..

No business process succeeds if it is implemented in a dry, passionless way. I'm reading Tom Peters' most recent work, The Little Big Things: 163 Ways to Pursue Excellence, and there are plenty of common-sense, yet under-appreciated lessons for anyone... Read More..

How do you measure return on investment for BPM investments?Gartner analyst Bill Rosser recently took a stab at the ROI for BPM initiatives -- a tough area to measure ROI, since BPM has so many components and involves so many... Read More..

Getting started with business process management requires BPM principles right from the get-go.Miguel Valdes-Faura, CEO of BonitaSoft and co-founder ot the open source Bonita project, provides some fundamental guidelines for getting started:Model the reality, not the ideal: Watch how employees... Read More..