Articles
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Cohesion by Design: From Fragmentation to Flow
As the world adopts AI at breakneck speeds, companies have to move fast. The issue they face, however, is to make sure that, in their urgency to act fast, everything fits and works as one. Roger Burlton and Whynde Kuehn have written a white paper to address the challenge of keeping all the moving parts…
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From Manual to Intelligent: How AI is Transforming Operational Risk Governance in Financial Institutions
The Risk and Control Self-Assessment has been the backbone of operational risk governance in financial institutions for over two decades. Yet the traditional RCSA process remains labor-intensive, dependent on subjective expert judgment, and difficult to scale across complex organizations. This article examines how artificial intelligence — particularly large language models and process mining tools —…
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Business Process Manifesto: Revisited
It has been a decade since the Business Process Manifesto was introduced. Very recently, a sixteenth translation (Turkish) was released. This new version was a good reminder for me to revisit the document to assess its suitability in today’s fast paced changing world.
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Southbeach Modeller + AI = Superpowers!
Have you considered using BPMN, UML or Southbeach diagrams as ‘prompts’ to multi-model LLMs such as ChatGPT4? Howard Smith explains the art of the possible using a ‘GPT’ trained using modelling concepts from Southbeach Notation.
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Slaves or AI
Aristotle was famously asked if societies would always require slaves. He said “yes” and then qualified his answer by saying that, perhaps mankind could eliminate the need for slaves if it could invent mechanical devices to do menial tasks. But as he didn’t think such machines likely, he imagined mankind would continue to require slave…
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Processes and Capabilities
This article provides a quick overview of how the terms Process and Capabilities can be used in BPM. Some will disagree, but this makes sense to us and has proven quite workable.
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Copies-R-Us: A Case Study (Part 2)
This month we continue with our study of how one would apply the BPTrends Associates Process Redesign Methodology to a specific process redesign problem.
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Should Every Manager Be a Process Manager?
Harmon’s comment on a historic column that Roger Tregear wrote on Process Management.
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Copies-R-Us: A Case Study (Part 1)
Here is a detailed case study that illustrates how the BPTrends Associates Process Redesign Methodology is applied to a specific process redesign problem.
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The BPTrends Associates Methodology
A quick overview of how BPTrends Associates conceptualizes the business process space. A good process change methodology ought to systematically address all of these concerns.