Social BPM: The Watercooler Just Got Cooler

I never quite got social BPM. “It’s like facebook but for corporations” the BPMS marketing departments screamed! “It will change the way we do business” they cried!

The success of social media is primarily that it’s fun and easy. We get a laugh out of sharing our catbearding photos (well I do…) and having innane conversations with people on the other side of the world that we haven’t seen for years. It’s an escape from the day-to-day humrum. So what is social BPM given that it’s focus IS the day-to-day humrum?

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How Does Non-Finance View Finance?

According to our study, Finance is more likely to believe they are “always” called upon to add high-level business support, while Non-Finance was more often to answer “Infrequently,” or “Almost Never.”

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EPM View: An Interview with John O’Rourke, Vice President of Product Marketing, Oracle Corporation

John O’Rourke, one of the most seasoned veterans of the EPM industry, offers his perspective in this candid interview with Susan Serven. John shares his views on the future of EPM, the merger of Hyperion and Oracle, the most common misconceptions of EPM, his advice for a company just starting to consider implementing a performance management system, why Balanced Scorecard may have fallen out of favor, and many other insights.

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How Far Would You Go…

… To Achieve Perfection In Your Information Management Initiatives?

Over a good few years, I have been fortunate to have experienced a variety of Information Management projects aimed at achieving an even more kaleidoscopic set of objectives (or lack of) out here in the Middle East (more specifically the GCC).

These projects have covered a variety of sources of information from Paper to PDF, from Web to Word, from Data to Documents.

The projects have also behaved in manners that depict a multiple-personality disorder, from Chaos to Calmness, from Schizophrenic to Stable, from Spontaneous to Structured, from Illogical to Intelligent.

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