November 2011 - Chris Geier's Blog

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  • BPM and Workflow in SharePoint, it’s like chocolate and peanut butter together

    Workflow and Business Process Management have become very popular terms in the past few years. They are being used with increasing frequency and often used both interchangeably as well as to describe different things.   Process automation -- the...

  • Top 10 things I am thankful for.

    I really love the idea of thanksgiving. Taking a step back and actually trying to think about things we are thankful for rather than blowing through our days full of busy schedules and projects that have 28 hours of stuff to do that needs to be crammed...

  • More ROI talk

    I have previously blogged about process efficiency and how to calculate some ROI, although that post was focused on a process that was used as a referee to more formal business processes. However, getting ROI out of a BPM/workflow platform is not just...

  • Why you should have a Workflow/BPM COE

      What are your goals for workflow, and or BPM? ·         Singular focused 1 process and done? ·         Divisional? ·         Group? ·        ...

  • Paving the cow path

    One common quote I see when researching different BPM approaches or ideas is one by Bill Gates: “The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation...

  • Co-Opetition Anyone?

    There is competition in all different industries. There is also cooperation, with companies participating in alliances, partnerships, or go-to-market strategies, and the like. Unfortunately you very rarely see co-opetition. What the heck is co-opetition...