Process for the Enterprise - Latest Comments

Re: Another RPA Acquisition: IBM buys WDG

sfrancis — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 11:05:30 -0000

Already some interesting analysis from HfS :

https://www.horsesforsource...

"10 reasons why IBM’s move will have such an extreme impact on the existing automation market"

Re: The Combustive Nature of Digital Transformation

sfrancis — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 12:34:57 -0000

this is a great post, Ed, thank you for sharing!

Re: How to turn ROI into ROMG with RPA

sfrancis — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 12:33:17 -0000

more discussions on ROI on this forum:
https://www.itcentralstatio...

But I have to say, I still like our approach to ROMG the best! :) Go big with your plans for ROI, not small!

Re: Alberto Manuel's "BPM Blogs Worth Reading"

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Re: Comparing the OCR Engines Available in UIPath

Infrrd — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 07:05:43 -0000

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Re: Austin Airport tips for #SXSW

Wade Gjervold — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 10:23:22 -0000

South Terminal isn't at all convenient (unless you've got an extra couple hours to kill riding shuttle buses). Luckily I think it serves mostly smaller airlines and charters.

Re: 10 Years of Blogging

disqus_4HAuXEU89p — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 16:13:48 -0000

gosieg gg

Re: 30% for Distribution

Andrew Paier — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 14:12:00 -0000

Also don't forget that as the developer you are helping pay for the review process that, in the ideal world, is ensuring that the underlying application does what it says on the tin and isn't violating any of the rules in place for the given app store. Granted that review process certainly has holes, but we basically only hear about the ones they miss, not the ones that get caught and told to revise the offering.

Re: Observations from Toronto about Trade: Fortune Global Forum 2018

Matthew Corbett — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 12:51:39 -0000

Reading this makes me proud to be half Canadian!

Re: 10 Years of Blogging

Ryan Biddulph — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 07:54:42 -0000

From what I have seen Scott, Austin is paradise. I cannot wait to visit.

Re: 10 Years of Blogging

sfrancis — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 11:30:31 -0000

difference is that i'm only (mostly) blogging from Austin instead of paradise :)

Re: 10 Years of Blogging

Ryan Biddulph — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 09:05:08 -0000

Same here; fellow 10 year guy ;)

Re: 10 Years of Blogging

Gordon — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 12:48:45 -0000

I'm still on the RSS train too! I actually use Inoreader rather than Feedly. I like how I can filter feeds and include Twitter feeds, and it's cheaper than Feedly's premium plans.

Re: 10 Years of Blogging

sfrancis — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 11:15:22 -0000

Thanks Ryan! hard to believe it's been 10 years already...!

Re: 10 Years of Blogging

Ryan Biddulph — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 10:35:15 -0000

Congratulations Scott! Awesome achievement, buddy.

Re: Process Deviance Research

Lance Gibbs — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 12:44:23 -0000

As we say in the process game, "Shift Happens!"

Re: Visual Programming

Andrew Paier — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 11:21:01 -0000

So, does this mean we have our first tentative speaker for Driven 2019 identified? ;-)

Re: I Know a Thing or Two about Airplane Seats

Lance Gibbs — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 13:22:49 -0000

Southwest is the best at this time in my opinion. Try 3 people, 6’1 - 6’3 and a cool 225-260 apiece with a connection. It’s a flying gulag.

Re: Austin Airport Expansion(s) – Love it

sfrancis — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 16:36:09 -0000

https://www.bizjournals.com...

Looks like another direct flight - this one on Lufthansa between Austin and Frankfurt - 5 days a week. That's kind of amazing:

"German airline Deutsche Lufthansa AG announced Thursday nonstop flights between Austin-Bergstrom International Airport and Frankfurt, Germany, starting May 3, 2019." and

"Commerce and business both here in Central Texas and Germany will be made more easily accessible for job creators in both countries," Wilson said at a Thursday news conference.

"Frankfurt has one of the world's busiest airports with connections to the rest of the world, the continent and beyond," he added.

I think it's huge. more option, and great options. And Texas has a huge population with German heritage - a fact probably not known by many outside Texas. The whole BBQ culture here has German roots (mixed with other influences). Maybe the connection will be a little easier to make now :)

Re: The Customer Journey is the (only) Process that Matters

sfrancis — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 11:50:15 -0000

I like your post - I think customer journey came up seemingly as something separate because so much focus on process was internal, so little of it on this KEY feature that is how is the customer journey affected. Pushing work onto the customer without considering whether it was work they wanted to do or not.

In the same way, calling the customer journey the only process that matters might be hyperbole, but it is calling attention to something that doesn't get enough yet: customer journey is a process, full stop; and customer journey is critical to your business, full stop.

I think most business trends are only relevant in the moment they come to prominence -because they are usually a reaction to some current state of affairs.. Once that state of affairs changes, the advice seems ridiculous (either redundant, obvious, unnecessary, oversimplified, or no longer correct because circumstances have changed!).

Re: The Customer Journey is the (only) Process that Matters

Emiel Kelly — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 08:50:04 -0000

Yes. http://procesje.blogspot.co...

Re: Your “New” Digital Systems are Now the New Legacy Systems…

sfrancis — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 23:09:08 -0000

Matt, it's a good corollary issue to the post above- creating friction in critical systems by bogging the team and systems down with non-critical implementations...!

Re: Your “New” Digital Systems are Now the New Legacy Systems…

Matthew Corbett — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 21:09:13 -0000

Hey Scott,

Very relevant. I've experienced many cases where non-mission critical projects are implemented in the perennial system intended and built for mission critical projects, often in lieu of those mission critical projects. These projects seem to have significantly lower business value and are in fact chosen because they're not seen as critical to the business; they're low risk.

This may be tangent to the goals of your post, but I thought it might be good to add.

Matt

Re: Large Models in BPMN

Matthew Corbett — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 19:21:15 -0000

Hi Scott, great points, thanks for the feedback. It's making me think. The spec was indeed designed for 2D diagrams, as I've read more and more.

I think the layering is key. Maybe each level is represented by a flat, 2D object, and they are stacked in some way, with the ability to rotate and roll the model to see all the levels at once, or hide them selectively, etc. I'm also thinking about the spec, as detailed here: https://camunda.com/bpmn/re... , it calls for having the ability expand a subprocess in the context of its parent. With this, I'm thinking about how swimlanes within subprocesses may or may not exist according to the spec, and which BPM products allow a subprocess without swimlanes. Lots to think about!

Re: Large Models in BPMN

sfrancis — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 00:39:41 -0000

I think it's an interesting idea, but I think BPMN is probably the wrong basis for a 3D representation - after all, it is designed for 2D : )

Also, in virtual / 3D geometry, the laws of physics don't apply. What's inside an object can be bigger than the object itself :) There are interesting opportunities, but they probably mean re-imagining how you would model or represent a process from first principles... !

( I always liked the layering idea - think of those old biology transparencies of the human body - you peel the first layer back and now the skin is gone and you see the musculature, and eventually just the skeleton. )