Social BPM: an endlessly mind blowing, almost inexhaustable, pool of o...

What is social BPM and why should you care? Let’s say there is a 20/80 rule between structured and unstructured dimensions in any work environment. This has perhaps always been the case. What’s changed? Well technology has caught up, providing coverage 80/20. Technology now makes the...

QlikView Business Discovery – How do you find something you were...

Have you ever stumbled on something you weren’t even aware was there? Mining data is often like that. You may start looking in one direction but end up somewhere totally different. BI Tools, like QlikView help us to investigate data and look for trends or anomalies. The important thing...

QlikView Unlocks Gold

The funny thing about gold in ‘em hills is it only becomes of value (to us) when we find it.  It’s not as though the prospector created the gold, the gold was already there.  The gold holds its own intrinsic value, yet we have to see it, hold it, and possess it before we can make...

How businesses lose weight, a running machine!

With XMPro at the BPM Gartner Summit yesterday and came across a great analogy. The topic was value and how businesses lose sight of business value and focus on the wrong things. The analogy was made in respect to running machines in a gym. Three prospective gym managers are asked about...

Do you know all the keyboard shortcuts (hot keys) for MS-Windows 7?

Mice might be nice, but keyboard shortcuts save time. The challenge always seems to be to remember them, the list is way long.  So maybe do what I do, and that’s to pick off one or two each day and build them into your routine. Here are three of my favourites: (out of the extended list...