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			<title><![CDATA[Pricing as a Solution for Process Improvements?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1345</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A simplification of Pricing your product or service could simplify a lot of your business processes and save you money in the long run! Hard to believe, but I can give you an example from my own recent experiences!Recently I was in both New York City and Washington D.C. In ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Nari Kannan]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[BPM&nbsp;,&nbsp;Companies&nbsp;,&nbsp;General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Research&nbsp;,&nbsp;SOA&nbsp;,&nbsp;The Buzz]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 10:39:48 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Measuring The Unmeasurable in Business Processes]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1336</link>
			<description><![CDATA[There are many Unmeasurables in Business Processes such as Customer Support Effectiveness, Customer Satisfaction, Service Excellence, etc. However, State of the Art in Business Process Measurement and Analysis is that many of these Subjective Factors are converted into some sort of Objective Scores.For example, Customer Satisfaction Index (CSAT) may be ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Nari Kannan]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[BPM&nbsp;,&nbsp;Companies&nbsp;,&nbsp;General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Research&nbsp;,&nbsp;SOA&nbsp;,&nbsp;The Buzz]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:15:05 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barcodes are Your Best Friend for Process Improvement]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1331</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I was pleasantly surprised by my recent visit to a Target Store here in California. I wanted to return something.I have never seen product returns go faster and easier than how they do it here. They scanned the barcode on the receipt, scanned the barcode on the product and the ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Nari Kannan]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[BPM&nbsp;,&nbsp;Companies&nbsp;,&nbsp;General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Research&nbsp;,&nbsp;SOA]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:23:36 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Recessions - Best Time for Business Process Improvement!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1329</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Recessions are a great time to think about Business Process Improvement! In any case, you are already trying to cut costs, and you might as well take on larger efforts in cutting waste out of business processes. Of course, you can throw all kinds of new technologies like Document Management, ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Nari Kannan]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[BPM&nbsp;,&nbsp;General&nbsp;,&nbsp;People&nbsp;,&nbsp;Research&nbsp;,&nbsp;SOA&nbsp;,&nbsp;The Buzz]]>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:55:47 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Master Data Management (MDM) and Business Process Improvement]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1323</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Many organizations are busy implementing Master Data Management (MDM) solutions on top of all of their applications. Master Data Management unifies the concept of a Customer of a business or a Patient in a Healthcare System. MDM solutions unifies the data about a single Customer or a single Patient in ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Nari Kannan]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[BPM&nbsp;,&nbsp;Companies&nbsp;,&nbsp;General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Research&nbsp;,&nbsp;SOA]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:16:49 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Process Improvement And Design of Experiments (DOE)]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1312</link>
			<description><![CDATA[When you consider a process for improvement, there are a number of things you could do it – train the people better, give them more latitude in decision making and keeping customers happy who bring in more business, invest more in a rules engine that automates many of the otherwise ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Nari Kannan]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[BPM&nbsp;,&nbsp;Research&nbsp;,&nbsp;SOA]]>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 06:57:31 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Number 1 Enemy of  Process Improvement - Current Organizational Reality!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1301</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Number 1 enemy of most Business Process Improvement efforts within organizations is current organizational reality! Ironically, those companies in the developed countries that have been the most avid technology adopters are the most cursed!. We have run into many such organizations that have a long history of adoption of ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Nari Kannan]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[BPM&nbsp;,&nbsp;Companies&nbsp;,&nbsp;Research&nbsp;,&nbsp;SOA&nbsp;,&nbsp;The Buzz]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:12:36 -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>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jim Sinur]]></author>
			
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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[Lazy Evaluation as a Business Process Improvement Method]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1244</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Lazy Evaluation is a very useful and innovative method in Computational Science. It involves delaying computing certain things till you are absolutely sure you need the value of that computation to proceed further. Programming Languages, applications and even system software like screen display painting algorithms in User Interfaces have used ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Nari Kannan]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[BPM&nbsp;,&nbsp;General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Research&nbsp;,&nbsp;SOA]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:53:46 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Optimization in Services Management]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1243</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I ran across an interesting paper  - Multidisciplinary Optimization in Services Management  by George Moldaveanu and Octavia Thor Pleter of The University Polytechnica of Bucharest. This paper gets into the use of Genetic Algorithms to manage the Costs, Quality and Speed of Services Management.However, companies are dealing with ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Nari Kannan]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[BPM&nbsp;,&nbsp;General&nbsp;,&nbsp;People&nbsp;,&nbsp;Research&nbsp;,&nbsp;SOA]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:59:50 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[How Important Is Business Process Integration?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1228</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Business process integration technologies may be very sexy and all, but companies can’t afford to start projects for that reason alone. Management needs to be convinced that an integration project will bring bottom-line results before it will agree to fund it. How do we build a case for business process ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Carlos Accioly]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[BPM&nbsp;,&nbsp;SOA]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:58:45 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Importance of Visualization in Process Improvement]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1225</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Process Improvement is nicer to talk about as a concept and a 'Vision" thing than when it comes to actual action. I have seen many a company having company-wide, grandiose "Quality Improvement" goals with respect to business processes but failing miserably when it comes to realizing them in practice.I have ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Nari Kannan]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[BPM&nbsp;,&nbsp;General&nbsp;,&nbsp;People&nbsp;,&nbsp;Research&nbsp;,&nbsp;SOA&nbsp;,&nbsp;The Buzz]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:38:01 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[SOA - Introduction Videos]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1213</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I came across these video clips introducing SOA posted on YouTube. Though, these are 3 different videos, they present 3 different analogies of the same concept. Take a look! SOA as building blocks:SOA as wardrobe:SOA as music notes:]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Vinayak Khadye]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[SOA]]>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 05:05:12 -0500</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1213</guid>
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			<title><![CDATA[Is there a future in predicting the future?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1120</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I just "got back" from Gartner's BPM Summit in San Diego.  I am still here in San Diego, gearing up to offer (along with my webMethods colleagues) another BPM Master Class on Thursday (hence the quotes around "got back").  I haven't yet mastered the art of physically being ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Kiran Garimella]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[BPM&nbsp;,&nbsp;SOA]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:04:43 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[How not to drive a Z3]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1095</link>
			<description><![CDATA[There is a lot of talk about agility — being able to turn on a dime and responding instantaneously to any changes. Reminds me of day-trading. Day traders are very agile. They are watching real-time feeds all the time, studying the news, and placing trades continuously. They spend a lot ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Kiran Garimella]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[BPM&nbsp;,&nbsp;SOA]]>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:37:07 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The fruit salad of convergence]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1089</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Everyone is talking about convergence.  Everyone, it seems, has always been talking about convergence.  Physicists do so; they call it the Unified Field Theory.  Even Chicago taxicab drivers do it.  I lived in Chicago for a number of years, flying almost weekly on consulting engagements.  ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Kiran Garimella]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[BPM&nbsp;,&nbsp;SOA]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:01:50 -0500</pubDate>
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