Process Excellence is more important than it’s ever been. The world of business is changing faster than ever, and process excellence is a key weapon that you can use – if you know how to wield it. Our new free report shows you how. In this new 14-page Best Practice Insight report we’d like to [...]
Posted on Tuesday, November 6, 2012 by Beth Barling“One week, one community, one vision for excellence.” That’s the tagline for PEX Week 2013, when over 400 process excellence professionals will descend on Orlando next January to discuss and discover the future of customer-centric process management strategies. Mark McGregor, Principal Analyst in MWD Advisor’s Process research program, is part of the speaker line up [...]
Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2012 by Beth BarlingIn my first blog about Oracle OpenWorld last week, I focused on the disconnect between the way Oracle portrayed itself in so many of the big keynote sessions for the main audience (focused on trash-talking competitors over technology), and what appears to be its underlying strategy (which is fundamentally based around an economic argument, not [...]
Posted on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 by Neil Ward-DuttonIt’s been a very long while since I’ve been to a big Oracle customer conference, so I wasn’t really sure what to expect – beyond the ‘town within a city’ vibe that you so often get with these mega-conferences, with the attendant 100-long lines at every Starbucks in a five-block radius of the main conference [...]
Posted on Thursday, October 11, 2012 by Neil Ward-DuttonLast week I spent a few more days in Vegas, taking in TIBCO’s annual TUCON customer event. The theme for this year’s event was “Everything Is Different”. Some things certainly were: for example, there was a lot more humour on show (a good sign of confidence) and more importantly, some really solid and illustrative customer [...]
Posted on Monday, October 1, 2012 by Neil Ward-DuttonSource: Apple / HuffPo UK The ongoing outpouring of derision, frustration and fun-poking at Apple’s new Maps app – touted as a key feature of the quite-possibly-described-as-magical iOS 6 – warranted another story on the BBC website today. As I was writing this it appears that Google can return over 68m results for the query [...]
Posted on Friday, September 21, 2012 by Neil Ward-DuttonOver the last five years, my role here at MWD has given me the opportunity to speak with many different organisations, to understand what they’re struggling with when it comes to enterprise collaboration, and to build up a picture of what works, what doesn’t, and what is that special secret ingredient that leads to building [...]
Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2012 by Angela AshendenWe’re just approaching the end of our financial year here at MWD Advisors, and it looks like our business will be somewhere north of 20% up on last year’s. We’re still a small business, but we’re finding that our continued tight focus (on three research and advice programs: Analytics & Information Management, BPM and Collaboration), [...]
Posted on Monday, June 11, 2012 by Neil Ward-DuttonAs MWD’s Operations Director it’s not often that I get to blog, but I’ve got a bit of company news to share that we’re excited about. As a reader of this blog you’ve probably been around MWD for a while and heard about the research we publish on a regular basis – dozens of reports [...]
Posted on Thursday, May 17, 2012 by Beth BarlingIf you take a look at Progress Software’s home page on the web today, you’ll see the following four things highlighted (along with a blog post from CTO John Bates): the launch of Responsive Process Management (RPM) 2.2 the results of a ‘BPM smackdown’ analysis that placed Savvion in a leading spot a case study [...]
Posted on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 by Neil Ward-Dutton
