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Being a BPM practitioner for over a decade and half,  to me Digital transformation is all about delivering the orchestration of people, systems and devices at a level that could not be achieved by traditional means. iBPMS (intelligent business process management suites) provides a competitive edge in the race towards digital transformation as it lets you re-engineer processes in days rather than years. It provides ways to re-model business processes, imagining new and better ways of performing operations. Starting 2016,…

One day in 1918, in his quest to increase the efficiency of his team and discover better ways to get things done, Charles M. Schwab arranged a meeting with a highly-respected productivity consultant named Ivy Lee. Schwab brought Lee into his office and said, “Show me a way to get more things done.” “Give me 15 minutes with each of your executives,” Lee replied. “How much will it cost me,” Schwab asked. “Nothing,” Lee said. “Unless it works. After three…

The ultimate goal of business process management is to connect people with the right automated systems and processes to measure effectiveness and to keep up to date. BPM adds value to the IoT by connecting smart objects. This, in turn, expands their integration and orchestration. With more and more devices being connected and IoT use increasing, there is a greater possibility for chaos from rapidly multiplying individual interfaces. Smart devices send information from a connected device through an API to…

Like many others, I mostly use OpenTable to book a restaurant reservation. It provides the convenience of booking most restaurants that accept online reservations from the comfort of my home or office in just few clicks and also gives me double the points on my credit card. A convenient reservation experience till this point. The overall process goes for a toss when you get a call from an unrecognized number few hours before the scheduled appointment and it hits your…

BPM’s role as a management paradigm allows organizations to apply process innovation wherever applicable. Automating and improving processes can have a variety of results, including better governance, improved transparency and more operational efficiency. BPM can also empower workers by eliminating inefficient or mundane process from their day. The technological side of BPM comes in handy when trying to achieve these goals. As the engine that drives process innovation, BPM software can give organizations the ability to automate processes and create…

Buddha was asked, “what have you gained from meditation?” He replied “nothing! however let me tell you what I have lost:  anger, anxiety, depression, insecurity, fear of old age and death.” 

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look into the reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor…

Once a group of 50 people were attending a seminar. Suddenly the speaker stopped and decided to do a group activity. He started giving each one a balloon. Each one was asked to write his/her name on it using a marker pen. Then all the balloons were collected and put in another room. Now these delegates were let in that room and asked to find the balloon which had their name written, within 5 minutes. Everyone was frantically searching for…

Work Life Balance – The Wally way

Amazon Inc. recently announced the broad availability of Amazon Redshift – a fast, powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service. Redshift, based on technology from ParAccel is aggressively priced solution at $1,000 per terabyte per year. Per AWS blog , it is highly cost effective offering that comes at about one-tenth of the cost associated with a typical data warehousing option and is expected to deliver 10 times the performance. Redshift is targeted to replace the capital expenditure of building…