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When BPM and Collaboration collide: now available

Monday, December 14th, 2009

A few days ago I trailed our Guest Pass webinar on the topic “When BPM and Collaboration collide“. As promised, the webinar is now available for access. Just make sure you’re signed in with your Guest Pass credentials and you’ll be good to go. (You’ll need to ensure that Flash is installed and enabled in your browser).

Although it’s an on-demand webinar, we’d be very happy to receive any questions you might have – we’ll do our best to respond to them all.

This is the first time we’ve done a research webinar ourselves using this technology, and we’re really pleased with how it’s turned out. We really hope you enjoy it! We’re likely to do more of these in 2010, so your feedback is very welcome if you have any…

Free MWD webinar: When BPM and Collaboration collide

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

Are you interested in developments in BPM and/or collaboration? Perhaps you’re engaged in initiatives in one or both of these areas, or you’re interested in understanding how these elements of the IT industry are shifting… if so, would you like an early Christmas present?

OK, it’s not exactly in the same league as a bottle of your favourite whisky, a must-have high-fashion piece or a day at Gleneagles, but it’s not in the league of bad socks either…

As our lead analyst on the topic of BPM I’ve been busy working behind the scenes with our lead Collaboration analyst Angela Ashenden (see her excellent Collaboration blog) on a theme of research that we’ll be developing and delivering throughout 2010, looking at how the worlds of Business Process Management and Collaboration are coming together. We’re finding that this is a topic with a lot of interest and resonance within our existing client base and we think it’ll continue to be a vital consideration through 2010 and beyond.

Our first deliverable is a freely-available webinar, open to all, called “When BPM and Collaboration collide”. It’ll be 25-30 minutes long and will provide an overview of the related topics of Social, Collaborative and Dynamic BPM. In it we’ll:

  • highlight the synergies between collaboration technologies and today’s BPM programmes
  • look at the main drivers for interest in these synergies and why these topics are so important now
  • look at what the business value of combining these two technology areas looks like
  • look at the potential of new developments in the market and show how opportunities are likely to develop over the next 12 months.

The webinar will be available on-demand from next Monday, but we don’t want this to be a one-way broadcast. Once you’ve viewed the webinar, we’d be very happy indeed to receive your questions and we’ll do our very best to answer them all – we’ll provide details of how you can submit questions at the end of the presentation.

All you need to do to access the webinar from Monday Dec 14th is to make sure you sign up for (free) Guest Pass access to our site, if you’re not already registered. If you’d like us to send you a link to the webinar on Monday just email us in advance; alternatively, look out for an update on this blog on Monday – I’ll provide the link then.

We hope you find the webinar useful – and please feel free to tell your friends!

IT spending in a downturn: broadening sourcing options, rather than radical cuts

Monday, December 15th, 2008

A few weeks back I highlighted that we’d just started running the first in a series of short polls in conjunction with CIO UK (part of the international network of CIO magazines) – with a poll focused on how CIOs expect their spending to change in 2009, given the current economic climate.

The first poll threw up some really good insights, which corroborated what I’d heard in a number of other CIO interviews I’d just completed (at the Nordic CIO Summit I chaired at the end of November).

We take the output from each poll we run, and write an exclusive piece for CIO UK – which is then used as the kick-off point for some further CIO debate that’s published online. Here’s the first article. The headline: on balance, UK CIOs appear to be expecting IT budgets to dip marginally overall, but key projects will still progress (albeit in more bite-sized chunks). Fixed IT costs / IT infrastructure budgets will be managed very tightly – but in a way, this is “business as usual” these days. The health warning: with the economic / political situation changing almost daily, the analysis and assumptions could well be out of date by the time you read the article!

The next poll is already live on our website: it’s on the topic of collaboration and social software. Are companies doing more than paying lip-service to collaboration, and what do people think about social software’s value? With our short poll we hope to be able to report some more interesting insights for CIO UK.

If you’re a CIO or IT Director – or you know someone who is – please take 2 minutes to provide your input (or send your contacts the link)! We hope to be publishing our CIO UK Debate piece on this topic early in the New Year.

Social graphs? Puh-lease.

Friday, November 9th, 2007

There’s lots of pseudo-intellectual waffle about social graphs out there at the moment, largely in relation to Facebook (and its implementation of an advertisement-supported business model based on the information it holds about people, their connections, and their interests).

Can we just call it a database, and move on?