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			<title><![CDATA[Are Process Standards for Real?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1307</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I keep hearing the hype around processing standards and I find myself a bit skeptical about the reality versus the hype. While most folks believe that industry standards are a better vehicle for clients than being dependent on several default standards established by the market presence of power vendors, this ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jim Sinur]]></author>
			
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			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:15:49 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[BPM 2.0 Leverages Agility in New Ways]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1308</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ In the BPMS today, agility mostly appears in the ability of adjusting decision points in a fixed process usually visible through a process flow. There is more to agility than what is delivered in most of the BPMS engines today. Agility is defined as the ability to think and ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:17:29 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Don’t be Content with Just Content]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1296</link>
			<description><![CDATA[It is pretty easy to settle for the short term and what appears to be a good deal. Today you can find content-focused vendors that will just throw in some free software when you buy their hardware. Then there are those that will sell you content management software without the ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 17:23:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Money Making Drivers for BPM Part 3]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1293</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In the last blog entry on drivers for BPM, I indentified drivers around process outsourcing, package implementations and process standardization.In this blog entry, I will explore people automation, value chain enablement, optimization, and compliance and process scenarios.Get Work Away From People Through the Automation of Manual ProcessesWhen deciding what processes ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 13:06:20 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Money Making Drivers for BPM Part 2]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1290</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In my first blog entry on drivers for BPM, I identified drivers around current process understanding, creating new processes, and process activity around mergers and acquisitions. In this blog entry, I will explore process outsourcing, package implementations, and process standardization.Get Someone Else to Do the Dull Stuff with Business Process ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 13:12:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Money Making Drivers for BPM Part 1]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1294</link>
			<description><![CDATA[There is a trend toward more emphasis on process activity; even process excellence these days. It’s because business leaders know that there is money to be made in BPM. Because processes are in the critical path of progressive business change, business processes are coming under intense scrutiny.The need for process ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:08:17 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Justifying BPM Efforts]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1287</link>
			<description><![CDATA[It’s not easy to justify any kind of capital budget item, especially in light of some of the recent economic challenges. However, BPM is rich with opportunity and documenting benefits is easier than anything else I have had to justify in my career.It is not my intention to provide you ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:05:58 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[What is the Difference between PPM and BPM?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1285</link>
			<description><![CDATA[PPM stands for program and portfolio management, but that alone is not clear enough. It’s much clearer to say that PPM is about managing projects and aggregations of projects generally leveraging a project management office (PMO). Basically PPM is all about projects, but more mature organizations extend beyond IT to ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:15:20 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Is BPM a True COTS Tool?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1283</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Wikipedia defines COTS as follows:Commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) is a term for software or hardware, generally technology or computer products, that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house developments or one-off government-funded developments. The use of COTS ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:09:41 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Content Is Cool]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1277</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Co-authored by Tom Donnelly and Jim Sinur.Many people think that content is just a fact of life that needs to be captured, stored and managed. This is not that cool, but some organizations are proving this wrong. To that end, we challenged ourselves to find some cool content enabled process ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:35:49 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Is Your BPM Vendor a Player or a Poser?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1273</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I have found that BPM vendors come in all shapes and sizes, but one of the important tells that BPM players have revolves around how much they leverage BPM in their own processes.It’s pretty doggone easy for a vendor to tell a potential or existing client how to use BPM ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:23:07 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Five Ways to Kill a BPM Effort]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1271</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Based on personal observations, discussions with hundreds of industry experts, and reviews of multiple industry surveys, I have identified the emergence of some of the worst practices that can affect a BPM effort. While other worst practices certainly exist, these five are the early BPM killers.Support is Shaky: (Tent Poles ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:45:58 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Basic Best Practices for BPM]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1269</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Based on my observations and conversations with thousands of business and IT professionals, many BPM efforts are at the early stages and revolve around picking the right BPM process and achieving early successes.While we have some more advanced clients using our software, the vast majority of clients are trying to ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:28:15 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Gartner BPM Conference in Las Vegas]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1266</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I attended the Gartner BPM Conference in Las Vegas this week. It ran from February 4-7 and I was very pleased with how this event is progressing. There were 1000+ attendees, up from September 2007 and comparable in size and scope to San Diego in the Spring of 2007.This is ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:42:40 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Can BPM Based Templates Compete with COTS Applications?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1263</link>
			<description><![CDATA[There is an evolution going on in the world of applications that is relegating the traditional way of leveraging COTS (common off the shelf) application packages a thing of the past.The problem with COTS applications is that they are not interoperable, flexible nor component-based. They are generally only aimed at ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Interaction of Process Modeling with Process Execution]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1262</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Many folks I have talked to are confused about where to model a process. All the BPMS vendors have modeling baked into them and the stand alone modeling tools have been popular with the IT architects. We find business analysts using either for modeling their processes.So what is the answer ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Process Is Free]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1259</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I remember when my daddy told me “nothing is ever free”.  I found his wise sound bite to be true until now. In fact, early in my adult life I thought I found an exception when I worked for a company that gave me a daily “free lunch”.On the ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[BPM&nbsp;,&nbsp;General]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[What Is the Difference Between ERP and BPM?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1257</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ERP literally means Enterprise Resource Planning and BPM means Business Process Management. These are two different overlapping concepts that point to a more general fogginess around applications versus process. If you have an ERP vendor, it does not mean you have a good enough process capability. If you have a ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[What is the Nature of the BPM/SOA Codependence?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1255</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I have had many discussions with business folks and IT types about the link of BPM and SOA and after several drinks we concluded that BPM and SOA are linked more than it appears on the surface, but the views going into the discussion are often at polar ends of ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[BPM&nbsp;,&nbsp;SOA]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New to Process Management? Try ITPM]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1256</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it is difficult to find the right place to start your BPM efforts because there may not be the right business visionary on board at your organization that is infected with the process bug.This is frustrating because many organizations are riding the BPM wave and you might be watching ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Methodology Yardstick Helps When You Attempt BPM]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1249</link>
			<description><![CDATA[You hear most of the independent experts tell you that there is no perfect BPM methodology and you will likely have to build a methodology tool box that leverages the best of each methodology.I certainly agree, but I would like to propose a yardstick for organizations to use to check ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:17:01 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Process Discovery Done Right (R5)]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1245</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Managing process workout sessions is the secret sauce in process discovery.There is a direct relationship between the success of process discovery and the amount/duration of benefits that are derived from BPM efforts.To that end, I have indentified the five right things (R5) to concentrate on in order to ensure success ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:54:18 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[About Blogger: Jim Sinur]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1246</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Serving as VP and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner Research during his 15 years at the firm, Mr. Sinur established himself as a leading authority on the BPM and Process Intelligence markets. As Global 360’s Chief Strategy Officer, Mr. Sinur drives the company’s vision of ensuring customer success through the development ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:44:49 -0500</pubDate>
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