Over the past few days a very timely discussion has been sloshing to and fro on ebizQ, based around the question: “Is it a mistake to think a BPMS will improve your processes?” Our experience is that driving success with BPM techniques and technologies requires a holistic approach to capability improvement – you have to [...]
Posted on Monday, December 12, 2011 by Neil Ward-Dutton
The new MWD online shop has opened its doors! Customers can now buy all premium reports in just a few clicks: simply browse or search our research library, add reports to your basket, check out and pay. Your purchases can be downloaded as PDF documents immediately. They’re also stored on your personalised ‘my MWD’ page [...]
Posted on Thursday, June 2, 2011 by Beth Barling
We’re delighted to welcome Helena Schwenk to the MWD analyst team! Helena joins us as Principal Analyst and will be leading our Information Management practice. Helena combines six years of expertise as a former data warehousing practitioner with ten years as an industry analyst (with analyst firm Ovum), and has a wealth of experience providing [...]
Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 by Beth Barling
We’ve just posted five new podcasts to the MWD podcast library. Led by MWD Research Director Neil Ward-Dutton, each podcast features an in-depth discussion with a pioneering organisation about how they’re using BPM to improve their customers’ experiences. We carried out the interviews for an online event we launched at the end of June called Reinventing [...]
Posted on Wednesday, August 4, 2010 by Beth Barling
Process Simplicity | ActionBase Blog – Thoughts on Collaboration Process Management Unstructured Compliance and Audit Via BP3's Scott Francis – thought-provoking stuff. (tags: bpm collaboration simplicity socialsoftware) Got Social Processes? Nice to see Gartner's Jim Sinur has picked up on our analysis of Social Processes ;-) (tags: bpm collaboration socialsoftware)
Posted on Thursday, July 8, 2010 by Neil Ward-Dutton
Following a significant amount of effort ove rmany months, Angela Ashenden (our Principal Analyst focused on Collaboration) and I have finally finished what I think is a landmark report looking at the phenomena of Social BPM and Social Processes. In the new MWD Strategic Insights report (which you can find here) we explain in detail [...]
Posted on Wednesday, July 7, 2010 by Neil Ward-Dutton
If you follow MWD in the blogosphere on a fairly regular basis, you might have noticed a few oddities in our feeds and our blogs over the past couple of days – apologies if it’s inconvenienced you. We’ve made a couple of changes to make it easier to follow what we’re doing from one place. [...]
Posted on Monday, July 5, 2010 by Neil Ward-Dutton
The title says it all, really! After a challenging 2009, 2010 is shaping up to be a great year for MWD Advisors. The first calendar quarter of 2010 was our largest ever in terms of sales – and in fact our sales total in that quarter was higher than our total sales for the whole [...]
Posted on Monday, April 26, 2010 by Neil Ward-Dutton
EPC vs. BPMN – the perfect flamewar | ARIS BPM Community Via Sandy Kemsley – great thought-provoking piece contrasting merits of EPC and BPMN (tags: process_improvement bpm bpmn epc aris)
Posted on Friday, April 16, 2010 by admin
Can Technical Debt Constitute a Breach of Implied Warranties? « The Agile Executive More fascinating stuff on the topic of technical debt in software development. If you refuse to do unit testing are you negligent, and could you become contractually liable? (tags: development technical_debt quality contract) elemental links: Cloud Computing Environments, Events Event Clouds: Amazon [...]
Posted on Saturday, April 10, 2010 by admin