Natural BPMS

I ended up being out of commission most of this week after my 3-year-old kicked me in the eye and scratched my cornea. Yes - it hurt pretty bad. Although the hardest part was being a type-A personality and having to sit around temporarily blind. For the first 24-hours, I couldn't open either eye.

I was reflecting back on the week (now that I can actually read) and realized there was one interesting example for BPM. There were little things that impressed me around the healthcare process...for example, the eye doctor had my chart at 8am on Wednesday when I had just left the emergency room at 1am.

But, the most interesting piece to me was the fact that neither eye would open the day after the incident. I asked the doctor about this and he said it was (essentially) my body's defense mechanism. This made me think about business rules which I thought of as an interesting analogy. Our bodies are probably the perfect BPM systems. They serve to process a series of rules that control our responses to things. They learn to improve the responses over time. And, with genomics and other areas of medicine, we can begin to map these processes.

Now, getting BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) or dashboards of our bodies' actions is a little harder (unless you are sitting in a hospital bed), but I think the general concept has some applicability.

Anyway, I won't stretch too far, but there is something there.