Improving Enterprise Business Process Management Systems

#bizarch artefacts concept map

2013-06-14T09:47:00.002+02:00

This blogpost accumulates my contribution (it is work in progress) into LinkedIn discussion " Business capability concepts map" http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&discussionID=245602764&gid=84758&commentID=144209821&trk=view_disc&ut=0BMR0Vl690JBM1 The reference blogpost is http://improving-bpm-systems.blogspot.com/2013/03/bizarch-artefacts-definition-again.html I use

Practical Process Patterns: Customer eXperience As A Process (CXAAP)

2013-06-13T18:37:00.000+02:00

Another practical process pattern - Customer eXperience As A Process (CXAAP) This blogpost is inspired by the sentence "The reason customers use our products and services, is to get jobs done in their lives." from http://bridging-the-gap.me/2013/06/03/designing-the-business-around-the-experience/ This sentence made me thinking about a hierarchy of embedded (in some sense) processes: "person's

Enterprise patterns: eclipse

2013-06-06T16:00:00.000+02:00

This is actually the subclause 5.5 "Making coordination explicit" from my book www.samarin.biz/book A typical enterprise IT landscape is a set of monolithic interactive applications. Such applications usually have intra-application coordination in a very implicit way. Inter-application coordination is also implemented but in an ad-hoc manner – some changes of data stored in “Application A”

#entarch basics in "for dummies" style

2013-06-05T21:21:00.000+02:00

A fragment from a forthcoming article. Why Enterprise Architecture? – To take right decisions on evolution Any enterprise comprises many interrelated parts. Many people work for an enterprise; they must be managed; raw materials must be supplied in time; final products must be delivered as planned; enterprise’s goals must be achieved. All of those parts must be coordinated to work together

Integration via #BPM: become friendly to #cloud

2013-05-31T21:51:00.000+02:00

This post was inspired by article "Cloud-Friendly BPM: the power of hypermedia-oriented architecture" from ZApThink available at http://www.zapthink.com/2013/05/21/cloud-friendly-bpm-the-power-of-hypermedia-oriented-architecture/ and, also "BPM and middleware vendors failing to adapt to the cloud – IDC" http://www.information-age.com/technology/cloud-and-virtualisation/123457063/

Place of #entarch in an enterprise organisational chart

2013-05-29T19:13:00.004+02:00

Based on the Linkedin discussion Should an Enterprise Architecture role report to the CEO?. It depends (as usual). Place of EA should depend on the maturity of the whole organisation. Low level - EA is under CIO Middle level - EA is under COO High level - EA is under CEO etc. Of course, there are extremes like an CIO saying: "Architecture? We don't need such a function. Everyone will do

My CV as a tweet

2013-05-19T11:57:00.000+02:00

Architect #entarch+#bizarch+#BPM+#SOA+#ECM+#governance+#strategy for innovative transformations & better operations http://about.me/alexander.samarin Thanks, AS

Enterprise patterns: Make Your Logic Obvious (MYLO)

2013-04-16T19:48:00.000+02:00

This pattern is an underlining approach for several other enterprise patterns mentioned in the blog. It recommends making the decision logic as explicit as possible before approaching the decision itself. The logic must be understandable by all stakeholders of this decision. They should be able to execute this logic. So the logic will take the decision - not you. Thus explicit logic acts as a “

#bpm for developers: improve #agility of implementations

2013-04-11T08:30:00.000+02:00

A small presentation for developers about BPM with different tricks to improve the agility and robustness of implementations is available on SlideShare http://fr.slideshare.net/samarin/bpm-for-developers BPM for developers from Alexander Samarin and its extended version BPM for developers, extended from Alexander Samarin Thanks, AS

Enterprise patterns: Strategy Implementation Chain (SIC)

2013-04-06T21:24:00.001+02:00

The aim of this post is to synthesize some enterprise patterns recently published in this blog to address the practical enterprise need of “strategy implementation”. The arrangement achieved links different #entarch artefacts into some kind of chain of transformations, with its supervision and enabling: from the business objectives to a portfolio of projects (or roadmap); from the brief initial

Enterprise patterns: Strategy TO Portfolio (STOP)

2013-04-06T21:23:00.001+02:00

This pattern is based on previous blog posts about linking business priorities and IT portfolio of projects - http://improving-bpm-systems.blogspot.com/search/label/IT%20strategy . Considering that at present the intended strategy is only a part of the realised strategy, it is necessary to take into account emergent strategy as quick as possible. Developing a strategy for 3 years and and

First #entarch works?

2013-04-05T09:00:00.000+02:00

Mentioning of #entarch work (urbanisme in French) is found on a stone document from Punique Carthage dated at 3rd century (probably) BC. A description in French is below. Thanks, AS

Addressing #security concerns through #BPM

2013-04-02T11:57:00.001+02:00

A small presentation about potential linkage between security and BPM is available at http://fr.slideshare.net/samarin/addressing-security-concerns-through-bpm Addressing security concerns through BPM from Alexander Samarin This linkage is important because BPM should play the main role in the pan-African platform for e-governments and e-governance (see http://

Pan-African platform for e-governments and e-governance to speed-up Africa’s transformation

2013-03-30T16:46:00.000+01:00

Executive summary It is not a secret that Africa must redouble efforts to build efficient, resilient and capable states. The modern way to improve the activities of public sector organisations is to use the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). There are many world-wide examples which allow saying that the sooner Africa will have governments which are fully tech-enabled with a

#bizarch artefacts definition; again

2013-03-12T13:51:00.001+01:00

This post is written for the LinkedIn discussion "Whats the defference between, a Business Capability, a Business Function, a Business Process and a Service?" In this post, I collected (and refined) several #bizarch definitions from the posts about #bizarch. activity, noun elementary or indivisible unit of work function, noun abstract and self-contained grouping of activities that collectively

Architects are responsible for HOW thus capability of WHAT

2013-03-03T12:39:00.001+01:00

Many recent discussions were talking about WHY, WHAT, and HOW as outputs of architectural work. I already blogged about dependencies / linking between them (see http://improving-bpm-systems.blogspot.com/2011/02/explaining-ea-business-architecture_19.html ). In this post, I would like to outline who is responsible for WHY, WHAT and HOW. But, at first, let go back to basics and define "architect

Result-Based Logical Framework

2013-03-02T19:27:00.001+01:00

Idea of results chain... Outputs -> Outcome -> Impact. Thanks, AS

Enterprise patterns: PEAS - example and technique

2013-02-27T13:05:00.001+01:00

This post is an example of introduction a PEAS-architected platform (see http://improving-bpm-systems.blogspot.com/2011/04/enterprise-patterns-peas.html). IN this example, BPM was used as a technique to reveal the platform. The situation: An organisation (which printed 30 mil pages per year) had about 40 publishing tools. The attempt to replace them by a common tool has failed after 2 years of

Towards "paperless" or "digital" or "less paper" way of working

2013-02-27T07:02:00.000+01:00

Just a few slides from the EA + BPM + SOA + ECM point of view.. Thanks, AS

How #BPM can help to a broken banking transaction

2013-02-25T13:57:00.001+01:00

Yesterday, I made (via the "ebanking" interface) a transfer from my USD account (or sub-account) to my CHF account (or sub-account). Such a transfer is an internal transaction and it is executed immediately during normal working days. As yesterday was Sunday then this transaction was postponed to Monday. At 7:30 AM on Monday I noticed that my USD account was debited at 4:14 AM, but my CHF

Linking business strategy and IT strategy

2013-02-24T16:18:00.003+01:00

This post is a continuation of "Writing IT strategy - From business priorities to the planning of IT actions". The main picture from the previous post is extended to explicitly link move concepts (business startegic objectives, business initiatives, business capabilities, IT capabilities (generic supply), IT tools (specific supply) and IT programmes. This is a possible way to "...setting out

Quick delivery of solutions via a PEAS-architected platform - mini-projects

2013-02-24T15:37:00.000+01:00

This is a continuation of the post Quick delivery of solutions via a PEAS-architected platform" to describe functioning of mini-projects. Roles within mini-projects (are taken from the DAD book) A stakeholder is someone who is materially impacted by the outcome of the solution. In this regard, the stakeholder is clearly more than an end user. The team lead (TL) is a servant-leader to the team,

#entarch was mentioned in Davos at WEF

2013-02-13T10:37:00.001+01:00

From http://www3.weforum.org/docs/EU11/WEF_EU11_FutureofGovernment_Report.pdf An Enterprise Architectural Approach. e-Government may be thought of as a complex socio-economic and human-machine system, which has begun to be explored and developed in recent years with the use of the Enterprise Architecture (EA) methodology. This approach encompasses a generalized representation of the subject

You have one of the top 1% most viewed LinkedIn profiles for 2012

2013-02-13T10:37:00.000+01:00

Thanks, AS

This blog is in the list of "BPM Blogs worth reading 2012"

2012-12-12T20:16:00.000+01:00

Again in the list of "BPM Blogs worth reading 2012" from Alberto Manuel. See http://ultrabpm.wordpress.com/2012/12/12/bpm-blogs-worth-reading-2012/ Thanks, AS