“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” – Gustav Mahler

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” – Gustav Mahler

Policies, procedures, processes and rules

One of the blogs about BPM that I follow is that of Sandy Kemsley who is an independent analyst and systems architect, specializing in business process management, the social enterprise, enterprise architecture and business intelligent. One of the most authoritative BPM experts in the world. I was very intrigued by her latest post in which […]

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Decision Modeling and Notation (DMN)

The DMN standard provides, also, a powerful meta-model, notation and semantics for decision modeling. In this useful quick start guide, offered by Signavio, it’s shown how to use DMN by immediately looking at a use case where you have to design and model an Operational Decision. Operation decisions are ‘baked’ into existing business processes and practices. […]

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Process Mining Manifesto

“Process Mining is a relatively young research discipline that sits between computational intelligence and data mining on the one hand, and process modeling and analysis on the other hand. The idea of process mining is to discover, monitor and improve real processes (i.e., not assumed processes) by extracting knowledge from event logs readily available in today’s (information) systems.

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External measures come first than internal ones

The measures of a process-oriented organization can be classified as external or internal.
Externals (measures from outside) tell you the result or the value that a process or a value chain is realizing. Internal (measures from inside), tell you how effectively a process works

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