
We’re heading to IBM’s Think! conference next week, and we want to share some of the sessions that jump out to us as sessions we are interested in. In general the featured sessions have strong speakers and interesting topics – but they also may not get to the nitty gritty detail that you’re looking for

David Brakoniecki, our Managing Director for European operations, recently gave a talk for Automation Anywhere's Imagine conference (virtually of course!) - and the video is available here with regis

whatever it is you focus on, make sure it is a really important problem that people will notice when you fix it.? Pick something that matters... your organization has a very scarce resource that

Last week we posted about OTPP and Camunda at CamundaCon - but we hadn't noticed a nice blog post on Camunda's blog that has some more details about OTPP's journey with Camunda: With $201.4 billio

While attending the CamundaCon conference last week, the intersection of RPA and process was explored across vs several conversations.? An interesting development to see RPA so prominently featured in

Ontario Teachers Pension Plan gave two presentations at CamundaCon - both well done. Sandy Kemsley covers the first one in this post (scroll down), and there's an interesting bit of history. Sandy i

In the first track presentation of Day 1 for CamundaCon, Keller Williams presented their solution for Smart Plans for their agents.? In a post by Sandy Kemsley , she captures the details of the prese

Camunda in Context As is often the case with a conference on process technologies, Sandy Kemsley has the best live blog available on the subject of CamundaCon .? As she notes, Jakob Freund deliv

Pre-amble.? A couple of weeks ago I attended the IBM Think conference in San Francisco. It was the first time for the conference in San Francisco and, taking into account the learning curve, I

We're at IBM Think 2019 this week, and I want to call your attention to a great session on Thursday morning.? TTI, Suncor, Keppel Energy, and IBM will be discussing their approach to RPA.? While I'm

We're at IBM Think 2019 this week, and I want to call your attention to a great session on Wednesday afternoon!? TTI has been innovative in their use of RPA to improve their business - not just with

We're at IBM Think 2019 this week, and I want to call your attention to a great session on Wednesday morning.? AECOM have an innovative approach to their design process that is the result of collabo

In October I attended the Fortune Global Forum , held this year in Toronto, Canada. It?s an invitation event for, primarily, the CEOs of businesses all over the world. The makeup of the event evolve

In October I attended the Fortune Global Forum , held this year in Toronto, Canada. It?s an invitation event for, primarily, the CEOs of businesses all over the world. The makeup of the event evolve

In October I attended the Fortune Global Forum , held this year in Toronto, Canada. It?s an invitation event for, primarily, the CEOs of businesses all over the world. The makeup of the event ev

In October I attended the Fortune Global Forum , held this year in Toronto, Canada. It's an invitation event for, primarily, the CEOs of businesses all over the world. The makeup of the event evolve

A little over a month ago, three of us made the trek to Berlin to participate in CamundaCon.? It was our first time attending the conference, an annual gathering of Camunda developers, customers, and

I'm looking forward to attending the Fortune Global Forum in Toronto next week Monday through Wednesday.? Last year I attended in Guangzhou , and this year I'm looking forward to seeing how differen

We had a great Driven 2018 event.? Our focus on Digital Operations led us to many interesting places in this year's conference, and nothing makes you feel better about a conference than someone else w

Driven 2018 is coming up quick and we wanted to share some of our most anticipated sessions with you. You can register for Driven here . Join a community of analysts, industry experts, and l

From nearly the first year I began writing this blog on behalf of BP3, pundits and commentators have predicted the demise of "BPM", to be replaced by the next thing. My argument has long been th

Part of what makes SXSW great is that, as a conference, there's always room for new ideas and topics to get in the door.? Quantum computing had about half-a-dozen sessions overall, including this keyn

I won't often write about the Magellan International School on this blog - in general I think Medium is the more appropriate venue for that personal pursuit - but there are times when personal volunte

Last week we attended IBM's Think conference, the consolidation of all the conferences that IBM used to run under separate brands into one massive conference.? I'll note that IBM stepped up its g

One aspect of SXSW that I don't typically take advantage of is access to politicians at all levels.? I've previously attended sessions on the Austin city-level, which is not very partisan and is more

A highlight of the conference was the interview of Christiane Amanpour by Kara Swisher. Kara is the perfect foil for someone like Amanpour. She brings a certain friction and challenging tone to the co

One of the highlights (for me) was the interview with Rian Johnson and Mark Hamill about the documentary film of the making of the Last Jedi.? It's a really personal and approachable view behind the p

Eddy Cue made an appearance at SXSW to talk about Apple News and Apple's views of their own responsibilities in the space. A few points I took away from his positioning around curating news:

SXSW has a series of featured sessions that overall, have been getting better ever year. There have been many standouts over the year, but just the average quality overall keeps getting better.? If yo

SXSW started out the right way - with the Austin Technology Council's Gateway event on Thursday night: pick up badge, attend a great networking event.? It's always gratifying to get to reconnect with

Omar Gallaga of the Austin American-Statesman has penned another article about the pros and cons of yet another SXSW descending upon Austin . LaRue is one of the tens of thousands of people who

One of the highlights of the Fortune Global Forum were the really fantastic interviews with the CEOs of amazing companies.? Even for CEOs, these are heroes that are looked up to in large part.? Each o

One of the highlights of the Fortune Global Forum were the really fantastic interviews with the CEOs of amazing companies.? Even for CEOs, these are heroes that are looked up to in large part.? Each o

One of the highlights of the Fortune Global Forum were the really fantastic interviews with the CEOs (and Chairmen!) of amazing companies.? Even for CEOs, these are heroes that are looked up to in lar

One of the highlights of the Fortune Global Forum were the really fantastic interviews with the CEOs (and Chairmen!) of amazing companies.? Even for CEOs, these are heroes that are looked up to in lar

One of the highlights of the Fortune Global Forum were the really fantastic interviews with the CEOs of amazing companies.? Even for CEOs, these are heroes that are looked up to in large part.? Each o

One of the highlights of the Fortune Global Forum were the really fantastic interviews with the CEOs of amazing companies.? Even for CEOs, these are heroes that are looked up to in large part.? Each o

One of the highlights of the Fortune Global Forum were the really fantastic interviews with the CEOs of amazing companies.? Even for CEOs, these are heroes that are looked up to in large part.? Each o

No tech conference would be worth its salt without a session on AI.? The AI-inspired startups that pitched at the brainstorm tech were awesome. The panel discussion was also interesting, and in this p

Following is a post about the Mobility Panel I attended at BSTI 2017: Participants: Davis Wang, Co-Founder and CEO, Mobike; Sam Zaid, Co-Founder and CEO, Getaround; and moderator Clay Chandler, Tim

Design Thinking Another panel was held to discuss design thinking and its impact on China and Chinese startups.? Clay Chandler of Time Inc. moderated a discussion with Robbie Antonio of Revolutio

After attending Fortune Global Forum for the first time, I wanted to share some impressions - and yet it is almost too much to convey in a blog post.? I'll also post my notes over the next few da

Just prior to the Fortune Global Forum, I was invited to also attend the Brainstorm Tech International conference as well, which was in the nearby Four Seasons hotel.??? This is my first trip to this

(A picture of HK International Airport from 2013) I'm sitting in the airport at San Francisco, about to head off to the Fortune Global Forum 2017 in Guangzhou, China.? As an added bonus I'll ge

Something I have been looking forward to this year is speaking at the iGrafx' 2017 conference: from Process to Insight ? in Orlando. The speaker lineup is stacked with process transformation experts

Forbes' Stan Phelps recently covered Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys , our co-founder Lance Gibbs' new book on the subject of the employee experience : First we discussed the title of the book. It

We are very excited to announce a set of speakers for Driven 2017. Registration is open. Brian Golden and Tommy Johnson of CUNA Mutual will be speaking about how they built and matured their com

In Austin this spring, as we do every spring, we held the SXSW-interactive conference.? It started as something modest, an add-on to the well-known music conference of the same name.? But it then grew

Driven 2017 is coming to Austin, Texas August 16th and 17th. Today, we are excited to announce our first keynote speaker! Forrester Analyst Rob Koplowitz will be speaking about the future of digital

Over the last year, Keith Swenson has been pushing the process and decision management community to provide a reference implementation of DMN, or a reference test-bed for it. This subset of the com

Congrats to our team - we finished second in the voting for Best in Show at bpmNEXT 2017!? For those who aren't familiar from our blog, bpmNEXT is the conference for showing off what's new (or on

MWD just posted commentary for the bpmNEXT event on their blog . I like the commentary: "At bpmNEXT, instead of tearing each other?s throats out as you might expect, the delegates present their lat

Our annual user conference is now called Driven . "This conference was one of the best I've attended. I took away great strategy for our program and actions we could take immediately?to deliver

TheCube has posted the full video of my participation in their show at Interconnect. I hardly recognize myself without the BP3 sweater vest, but I like how the show turned out. The interviewers did

Derek Miers recently joined MWD Advisors, and came to bpmNEXT and gave a great talk on business process in the context of what's going on around us. First he challenged the room: If BPM is the sil

Clay Richardson sees a lot of disruption coming for BPM programs as they logically transition into Digital Transformation programs.? And he's not wrong: we have literally seen BPM initiatives re-brand

Neil Ward-Dutton also delivered a talk at bpmNEXT to help kick things off.? As in previous years, Neil presents a mental model that I find pretty useful. First, he presents a model in three layers

Jim Sinur presented again at bpmNEXT this year - this time in his new role at Aragon Research.? He focused on 10 technologies that impact BPM in the next 5 years.? I didn't catch them all in my notes

I arrived at bpmNEXT along with Ivan Kornienko, the night before it started in Santa Barbara.? And it started with dinner with a professional services competitor and a couple of BPM engine developers

This week I'm off to the bpmNEXT conference in Santa Barbara , the conference for the innovators in the BPM space to show off what is cooking in the lab.? This is the fifth bpmNEXT conference, and it

After SXSW this year there was no rest for the weary. The following week was IBM's InterConnect conference which is a big deal for BP3 as we're a big IBM partner (in particular in business process and

Our focus has always been on business process and decision management.? Increasingly, these two themes show up within the context of discussions on digital transformation, blockchain, and machine lear

With all the access to data, analytics, cognitive and machine learning, we have to adapt our business processes to get the full benefit of these capabilities: . @sfrancisatx what's your playbook

Well, this is by no means the whole story of BP3 starting up, but extemporaneously I relayed some of it in this interview with theCube.? I recall meeting over coffee on Sunday mornings many times soci

Our customers deserve a healthy vendor and partner in BP3.? Our customers deserve to know that we at BP3 are being responsible with our money, with how we spend, and how we grow... That we don't grow

I had the pleasure of sitting down with theCube at IBM InterConnect this year for an interview.? There's been a shift from cost-reduction to customer experience and top-line revenue expansion, which B

First, let me start by saying that Tuesday was a blast.? We had a great day with sessions, and I had the chance to appear on theCube - which was awesome.? But also, we had a truly amazing customer eve

Here's the Tuesday edition, hot off the presses! Start with the Chairman's Address. Ginny Rommetty is a great speaker and this is a fantastic opportunity to get her view on the path forward for I

Last week BP3 attended 3 events in 3 countries to meet with customers, prospects, and partners.? And of course our team was visiting a multitude of customers and prospects as well. There are mome

This week the attention may be turned to World of Watson, but last week it was all about Digital Transformation and BPM: Process Transformation. James Taylor took a turn at blogging the Process

IBM hosted a Process Transformation event this week, bringing together top customers, partners, and IBM executives and product leaders into one space to talk about what's happening and what's next

BP3 has been a great place to work for me since 2007.? And what makes it a great place to work for me?? The fantastic team I get to work with every day. As we've grown, one of the great joys of

With the advent of South by South Lawn (SXSL) last week, followed by the Great Places to Work conference coming to Austin this week, the topic of Austin exporting its culture comes to mind.

One of the banes of time and materials consulting is over-running estimates.? Many consulting companies win business by bidding low and then running change orders or cost overruns to extract mor

We had a pretty special week in Austin last week. We hosted our global team and select customers for BPMCAMP . And I couldn't be happier with the final product.? It just gets better every year.

I just saw an article in the Austin Business Journal - apparently CNBC has named Austin the #1 city for startups : Owing to its entrepreneurial bent, the quality of its labor pool and its booming

In Sandy Kemsley's blog, reporting from the PegaWorld conference , she wrote the following: "AmEx used to be a waterfall development shop ? which enabled them to offshore a lot of the developme

We spend a fair amount of time giving back to the BPM community by sharing our best practices.? But we also like to give back when it comes to our experiences and know-how in other areas. Two recent

Neil Ward-Dutton's session at bpmNEXT was "Remixing BPM for the digital age": The main point I made: BPM technologies deliver capabilities that all organisations pursuing a digital transformation

Thanks to Sandy Kemsley for the kind coverage of our demonstration : Outpatient care example with coordination of resources (rooms, labs) and people (doctors, patients), BPMN may not be best

I had the honor of participating in a panel on building a business in BPM, alongside Silver Tree's Jonathan Sapir and Princeton Blue's Pramod Sachdeva.? SilverTree (~20 people) is focused on Sal

As part of the Business of BPM, a panel discussion of the role of modeling was held.? Denis Gagne, Clay Richardson, and Kramer Reeves all took part, moderated by Bruce Silver.? Again, Sandy Kem

bpmNEXT has been experimenting with the format on the first day of the event, a format they call the business of BPM. This year it started with Nathaniel doing a reprise of his predictions for

This was the fourth bpmNEXT we?ve attended and presented at - every one since the beginning.? Every year the conference gets a little bit better in terms of content, and the collegiality gets be

[caption id="attachment_8080" align="alignnone" width="600"] Courtesy of Benny Notheis[/caption] We're proud to be making our 4th appearance at BPMNEXT this year. I believe -? along with Keith Swen

Three legends of Austin's Tech Economy came to SXSW Interactive this year to hold forth on how Austin became Silicon Hills, and to talk about the future of tech in Austin.? It has become a popul

Greg Barr, Managing Editor at the Austin Business Journal, attended our panel, "Can Austin Take Top Talent from Silicon Valley", and wrote a great piece on it in the ABJ .? Our panelists includ

As many of you may know, Austin is preparing for SXSW, and first up: SXSW-interactive on Friday.? With the conference comes more than 20,000 attendees and a similar number of "non-badged" attendee

I am an IT guy at heart.? I will never be able to shake my upbringing as a system and network administrator, so my view of the world is skewed to include the simplest IT management, monitoring, suppo

In a panel discussion at SXSW-interactive this year , four passionate high-tech execs are going to debate whether you can take top talent from Silicon Valley.? While the title focuses on "Austin" th

A few weeks ago I participated in a session called "networking in the digital age" at IBM's Interconnect conference and I thought I'd share some thoughts in a more coherent way here, to a broade

[Note from Scott:? this is the best Brazos Portal release yet, and in this post, David outlines all of the enhancements we?re bringing to Brazos Portal thanks to the collaboration of our many consul

[Note from Scott:? this is the best Brazos release yet, and in this post, David outlines all of the enhancements we're bringing to Brazos UI thanks to the collaboration of our many consultants, d

The last day! Still a few good sessions to catch! 8:30am | 5737A Healthcare Insurance Claims Management and Self-INvoicing BPM Solution at Advancecare, Reef Ballroom D. Vitor Salvador of Advanc

Wednesday's scheduled also has a couple of fantastic sessions from BP3, Kaiser, and Wells Fargo, as well as other customers.? Here's our recommended schedule for the day: 10:00am | 5021A Creatin

And for Tuesday's sessions, our humble recommendations follow... I'll point out right at the top that you have some great options with a session presented by BP3's own Andrew Paier and Ivan Kornienko

Continuing a tradition from previous years at Impact, we?re sharing our thoughts about the best sessions at IBM?s Interconnect conference. The conference is again spread across two hotels this year,

There's nothing better than looking up a conference schedule and seeing a customer presenting, and calling out your product in the process - better yet, when it is a surprise! Zion's Bank is pres