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A recent round of criticism has made the rounds among Austin tech circles, coming from Bob Metcalfe and Brett Hurt, among others.  The ATC CEO Summit summary in Silicon Hills News reports: No one disputes that Austin has become a … Continue reading →

  Austin has always had good BBQ.  I was hardly here a whole day before I ate at County Line BBQ on 2222.  And I haven’t lived more than 2 miles from a County Line BBQ ever since… And yet … Continue reading →

Clay Richardson of Forrester connects some dots that only analysts covering multiple products would notice – the idea that both IBM and Appian are effectively making it easier for users to navigate complex work without predefined paths: While I like … Continue reading →

This year we did more interviews and talks than ever before at IBM Impact.  We’re recapping our involvement here: Rich Phillips did two book signings – 3:30pm on Monday and 9:45am on Wednesday. Along with IBM, we gave away 500 … Continue reading →

BonitaSoft announced last week that they raised a third round, $13M, from several parties last week.  Apparently BPM startups are still investable!  And apparently BPM isn’t dead yet (sarcasm alert!).  BonitaSoft has been one of the most successful open source … Continue reading →

We have a great white paper available for download – The Business Driven Delivery Team – which is all about how to organize and motivate a team responsible for BPM project delivery.  One of the key challenges is to get … Continue reading →

[Author's note: posted this as the second part of a previous post, but it really feels like it should be its own post] At BP3 we believe in giving back to the community and building the ecosystem.  Just one way … Continue reading →

In this post we just want to give you a little bit of a feel for what it was like to be at the BP3 booth on the tradeshow floor. But first, let’s take a diversion to the General Session, … Continue reading →

We were pretty excited that our friends at Capital Factory hosted the President last week.  On a personal note, I was even more thrilled that my wife was able to meet him at the event!  Imagine my surprise when we … Continue reading →

As I’ve written before, bpmNEXT was a fantastic event, and we put up quite a few posts about it over the following weeks.  In the midst of all the IBM Impact posts that we’re catching up on, the videos from … Continue reading →

Today (yesterday by the time you read this) Obama came to visit Austin. Pretty exciting.  One of his stops was Capital Factory, one of the incubator/co-working spaces in Austin that was co-founded by my friend Joshua Baer.  Lori Hawkins covered … Continue reading →

I have to thank Todd Watson and the folks behind the IBM Champion program (Daphne and Justin, talking to you!) for lining up an interview for Live @ IBM Impact 2013.  The focus was on Mobile Business Process Management, though … Continue reading →

Lombardi – Seen but not Heard If there was a theme at IBM Impact, besides the obvious – “Smarter Process” and “Systems of Interaction” – it was Lombardi. No one mentioned Lombardi on stage.  No one from Lombardi took the … Continue reading →

We were pleased to run into Bruce Silver at Impact and he has since posted his impressions of the conference on his blog. Process innovation was a central theme of last week’s IBM Impact conference – it took center stage … Continue reading →

IBM has started posting the interviews we participated in at IBM Impact.  The following video is actually the first interview I did on-site at Impact.  I might be a little too active for a standing interview but I like how … Continue reading →

[ Editor's Note:  The following post is an excerpt from the Preface of our recent publication:  The COO Revolution:  Reinventing Customer-Facing Processes for Moments of Truth.  The first chapter of the book may be downloaded by clicking here. ] Problem … Continue reading →

You can’t see the company affiliation, but bonus points to those of you who spot two Champions from BP3 in this video.  Andrew Paier and I have determined that we have faces for radio, and perhaps this video thing isn’t … Continue reading →

Context and History Phil’s speaking engagements at Impact have been one of the highlights of the show for me since Impact 2010.  This year he had a change of pace – instead of talking about BPM, or BPM and ODM, … Continue reading →

[Editor's Note: This was posted on the IBM Impact Blog - re-posted here for the convenience of our regular RSS readers!] We’re excited about our 4th year at IBM Impact.  Every year we’ve increased our investment.  The first year, immediately … Continue reading →

Why not build beautiful applications for your business? Great shout-out from Caged Ether on his blog – “What exactly is going on in enterprise mobility right now?“.  As he says, there’s no reason for enterprise processes to be ugly, and … Continue reading →

We had a great first day at IBM Impact.  The day started off feeling like a bit of a Lombardi reunion as we kept running into people we know from those days.  But it wasn’t long before we were setting … Continue reading →

So Blueworks Live has been updated with the April 2013 Release.If you haven’t been keeping score, Blueworks Live has been steadily updating every couple of months (6-12 weeks) for years now. David Brakoniecki rightly concludes: “BlueworksLive is clearly being moved … Continue reading →

One perk of being an IBM Websphere Champion is that I was offered an opportunity to show off our Brazos UI for Mobile BPM in the Champion’s corner.  Anyone interested in creating beautiful interfaces for their business processes in IBM … Continue reading →

In the run-up to IBM Impact, we want to share a little bit of what we’ve been up to, and what we have to show at our booth at Impact. We set out to make it easy to make a … Continue reading →

Editor’s Note: This blog is an excerpt from the soon-to-be-published book by  entitled — The COO Revolution: Reinventing Customer-Facing Processes for Moments of Truth, by Rich Phillips, Kramer Reeves, and Peter Fingar (Meghan-Kiffer Press).  Click here to download an excerpt … Continue reading →

We’re proud to announce that our very own Rich Phillips has joined forces with Kramer Reeves and Peter Fingar to produce a soon-to-be-published book entitled “The COO Revolution: Reinventing Customer-Facing Processes for Moments of Truth”. Rich is one of the … Continue reading →

As long as I can remember, Jim Sinur has been writing about BPM.  On his blog yesterday he announced that he’s retiring on May 1st: It’s been a great run, here at Gartner, but all good things must end. I … Continue reading →

I’d have been more surprised if this happened a few years ago, but Lean Startup thinking has become so prevalent that even the conservative Harvard Business Review had to notice and address the topic eventually. Even better, they reached out … Continue reading →

John Reynolds writes that “Gathering, Reviewing and Approving are almost always Collaborative“ Of course he’s right.  And in fact, rather than explicitly model such things: I’d recommend modeling the review process as a self-contained “activity”.  Prepare proposal should be separated … Continue reading →

With Impact on the horizon, we wanted to highlight some of the great sessions our customers are participating in at Impact.  Eleven IBM customers that BP3 folks have worked closely with are presenting on the order of 13 or 14 … Continue reading →

Great resource that Bruce Silver just announced, if you want to access Blueworks Live training online: Together with Shelley Sweet of I4Process, I began doing a set of basic Process Mapping 101 training videos for Lombardi Blueprint several years back, … Continue reading →

We recently highlighted Sue Butler’s co-presentation with UMB Bank, and now we’re happy to announce that our own Andrew Paier, Director of BP Labs, will be a member of a panel at Impact covering Mobile Innovation: 3299 Panel Discussion: Driving … Continue reading →

BP3 is proud that a number of our customers are speaking at Impact this year and sharing their experiences with BPM.  We’re going to take time to highlight some of our customers’ sessions at Impact in our blog – as … Continue reading →

Keith Swenson is probably the foremost proponent of ACM.  He has a new series of blog posts and talks that touch on Nicholas Taleb’s book “Antifragile,” a new wrinkle on his theme of knowledge work and ACM.  His presentation at … Continue reading →

Austin has been a hotbed of activity in certain startup circles, most notably enterprise software and the intersection of enterprise and social.  But in the Austin-American Statesman they ran an article on the rise of mobile payment systems and startups … Continue reading →

Another interesting connection at bpmNEXT – between Bosch and Vernor Vinge. A stretch? Maybe.  But the Bosch team (Tom Debevoise and Troy Foster) presented a pretty compelling take on the internet of things-  the concept of a mote – which … Continue reading →

As I go through my notes from bpmNEXT, I keep finding little gems that I want to share.  Like the note I wrote myself- that Germans love David Hasselhoff… and BPMN, after watching a series of great presentations reflecting serious … Continue reading →

Everyone has their hypotheses about managing business by process.  For example, the ACM folks hypothesize that the important knowledge work that businesses do cannot be effectively modeled in BPMN.  The more “traditional” view of BPM (which is only about 10 … Continue reading →

As we know at BP3, rolling out process change across an organization the size of a Starbucks is no easy task. They have so many retail locations and registers and team members to train, it is a daunting task. But … Continue reading →

In John Reynold’s talk at bpmNEXT, he focused on “data-centric-BPM” – by which he meant modeling business entity lifecycle, and not just the processes that intersect or interact with the Business Entity Lifecycle (BEL). A key takeaway from the talk … Continue reading →

There are some interesting observations I had coming out of bpmNEXT that didn’t fit neatly into the summary blog post. During ITP Commerce’s presentation at bpmNEXT, they talked at some length about the notion of style in BPMN, and a … Continue reading →

Neil Ward-Dutton summarizes bpmNEXT in this blog post, and an item that caught my eye as well was the presence of only the independent analysts: What was a little surprising to me was that the only industry analysts present were … Continue reading →

Paul Harmon of BPTrends gave a great keynote talk to get things started at bpmNEXT.  Sandy has the best coverage of that talk in her own blog. Key take-aways: There’s been a lot of BPM evolution in the past 10 … Continue reading →

I want to provide some insights from bpmNEXT but I don’t think I can cover every presenter and do them justice in this blog (However, I’ll post a couple more posts to highlight just a few of the presentations).  I … Continue reading →

Just when you thought you were safe from Analysts’ judgment, a new Forrester Wave comes out and ranks all the vendors in your space.  Last time it was Gartner’s Magic Quadrant, this time it is Forrester’s Wave. Clay Richardson’s Forrester … Continue reading →

It has been a flurry of BPM announcements of late.  First, Effektif announces, now Camunda.  Camunda has been a major partner for jBPM and Activiti, and has now branched out to support their own BPM “stack” called Camunda (previously references … Continue reading →

Ivan Kornienko and I presented “BPM for Mobile, Mobile for BPM” at bpmNEXT on March 20th.  We walked through our thought process around mobile as it relates to BPM, shortcomings of the current approaches (as we see it), and some … Continue reading →

I flew up with Ivan Kornienko to the Asilomar conference facility in California on Tuesday – for the brand-new bpmNEXT conference.  The conference, as you may know, is hosted by Nathaniel Palmer and Bruce Silver. We started out in style … Continue reading →

NLP to Starships Day 4 of SXSW was one last blur of sessions.  I started out with something perhaps too cerebral for my not-quite caffeinated state:  Practical Natural Language Processing.  It was a good primer on the state of things … Continue reading →

Tom Baeyens, previously a founding member of jBPM and then Activiti, has now started a new firm, Effektif, which will focus on BPM in the cloud.   Gero Decker of Signavio is involved as well as an investor and partner. The … Continue reading →