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"The biggest problem with the term BPM is that so many people saw it as meaning so many different things. This causes unnecessary arguments between experts, like the blind men arguing over the shape of an elephant. We can clarify this debate by naming the subcategories of BPM."
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1. Management of Business Processes (MoBP)
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2. Business Process Analysis (BPA)
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"It has been said many times, that for social business to succeed to create the evolution towards Enterprise 2.0, we need to put this social activity directly into the flow of how people work. In that light, we spent quite some time at the recent Enterprise 2.0 Summit in Paris, discussing how to integrate social business activity into enterprise processes, and in particular from the view of process modeling."
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suggested the model in Figure 1 that illustrates social activity as something that occurs outside the process, where each process step may have an associated space for social interaction activity. My interpretation is that in this model, the social activity occurs outside the process step as an ancillary activity that the process step itself is unchanged but there is a documented link to the activity elsewhere.
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"“Can business processes and social media co-exist?” – This was one of the first big questions on day 2 of the Enterprise 2.0 Summit asked by Bertrand Duperrin from Nextmodernity and that question lead to a very interesting discussion of the role of social tools in the world of Business Process Management (BPM) – something that links nicely back to the theme from day 1 of harnessing the conversations taking place in the organization. Traditional BPM lack a proper feedback loop to ensure proper organizational learning, but if you intelligently integrate social tools, this gap may be filled."
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If you just add a social layer inside the processes, you may find yourself creating ‘social silos’ effectively working against the purpose you are trying to accomplish
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If we are to succeed with more ‘social’ business processes, we simply MUST get out there and involve people – all people.
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"SocialBPM was explained by Elise Olding in a recent research paper, which sadly is only available to Gartner clients, called “Social BPM: Design by Doing”. She did a great job of starting to explain what SocialBPM by highlighting 2 very different perspectives, to which I have added a 3rd, which I have described below with some of the issues I see."
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1. Social by Design: Collaboration around process improvement
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The initial discovery of processes is often in workshops, but once deployed and executed, then it is critical that there is a feedback mechanism so those actually using the processes can identify issues or suggest improvements. Typically this is ‘send the process owner an email’.
With SocialBPM the discussion is all linked to the automated or manual process step, related document, form, system, metric or compliance statement
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"Theres a flurry of social this & social that in the IT market space and marketing machines are running over speed. So much so that Geoffrey Moore & Stowe Boyd too debate on what to call the term Social Business Systems - Systems of Engagement or Work Media. I guess the marketeers would like Work Media while the technologists might love the Systems of Engagement. Either one works for me, but I have been struggling with yet another term - Social BPM."
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SBPM enables social actors to collaborate on modeling, executing & optimizing structured and unstructured business processes.
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A social actor, in basic terms, is a conscious, thinking, individual who has the capacity to shape their world in a variety of ways by reflecting on their situation and the choices available to them at any given time.
And this is a huge head shift. Not easy to convince the BPMS configurators, near darn impossible to explain to the compliance & regulations folks - 1 more annotation(s)...
"La mise en œuvre des applications de Case Management nécessite une approche qui diffère de celle requise pour les applications de pur BPM. J’ai eu l’occasion plusieurs fois ces dernières semaines d’échanger à ce sujet avec différents interlocuteurs aussi je vais tenter de mettre noir sur blanc ma vision des choses."
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Lorsqu’on pense application BPM, on pense processus. Ce qui sous-tend l’application, c’est le déroulement d’un ensemble de tâches unitaires prédéfini, modélisé, implémenté et figé. Se greffent ensuite à ces tâches des données portées par les instances du processus, des documents, des intervenants, des échanges avec l’extérieur (le SI partenaire par exemple). Mais le BPM reste fondamentalement Process Centric.
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Une activité est donc un ensemble plus ou moins important de tâches unitaires mais ce n’est pas pour autant un sous-processus. Une fois toutes les activités recensées, il convient de modéliser chacune d’entre elles et de leur associer la définition des données complémentaires. L’application consiste ensuiteà faire exécuter un ensemble d’activités, dans un ordre précis ou pas, pour arriver à la liquidation finale du Case. Le Case Management est fondamentalement Data Centric.
"Anyway, this post aims to discuss the issue of Process Integration using Social software as this looks like a great opportunity for both parties. Solving the Business Process Management equation thanks to Social Software agillity on one hand and putting Enterprise 2.0 into the flow of business processes."
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I’ve attended BPM training in 2007 where the expert could not name a successful implementation of an Enterprise Service Bus (the backbone component of SOA). He conceded that the solution is not worth considering unless your target is above 500 users. Below that limit, you won’t get your money back.
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Beyond Social BPM, with the likes of IBM acquiring Lombardi solution to offer such solution in the cloud (BlueWorks Live), we now see and a move towards Enterprise Social Messaging.
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"Hear Gartner Research Vice President Jim Sinur discuss how case processing addresses today's business drivers. Discover the greatest opportunity for case management and the technologies you can use to develop case-based solutions faster."
"On parle beaucoup de Case Management depuis ces derniers mois en insistant sur le fait qu’il faut rendre le pouvoir aux experts métiers. Est-ce une prise de conscience ? Si oui, pourquoi ? Voici quelques réflexions bien personnelles sur le sujet."
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Tout a été modélisé, précisé, simulé, conçu pour que l’automatisation propre aux applications BPM soit la plus efficace possible. Et globalement ça fonctionne plutôt bien. La gestion des processus a fait ses preuves et personne à ma connaissance ne souhaite revenir en arrière.
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Le BPM, qu’on le veuille ou non, c’est aussi beaucoup de rigidité. Et pourtant nous disposons tous dans nos milieux respectifs de nombreuses compétences qui ne demandent qu’à s’exprimer. Qu’à apporter aux automatismes une dimension complémentaire, non concurrente mais de plus en plus obligatoire.
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"I need to point out that what Forrester defines as DYNAMIC case management is by far not yet ADAPTIVE. Forrester defines dynamic case management to be semi-structured and collaborative, dynamic, human-centered, information-intensive processes undertaken around a given context, while being driven by events, requiring incremental and progressive responses."
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As a further point Forrester does not use the term knowledge worker but rather (information-) I-worker, which is anyone who uses a computer at his job.
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I see ACM mostly for knowledge workers who apply their specific skill for case resolution or process execution.
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"At the Enterprise 2.0 conference in June, my only blog post was something of a rant on the emperor having no clothes, since I believe that this has to be about the core business or it’s just not very interesting (and likely won’t survive an economic downturn). Interestingly, Michael Idinopulos of Socialtext was at the same conference, and saw some evidence of the shift towards the idea that ”social software delivers business value when it integrates with business process” (I wish I had been in some of the sessions that he was, since he obviously saw evidence of this opinion being further along than I did)."
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Although many vendors focus on the social aspects of process discovery and design, I don’t think that’s where the true impact will be felt: social process execution is the key to bringing together the productivity, governance and quality improvements of BPM with the networking and cultural aspects of social software. Having social features at runtime as innate capabilities for all process participants – through the entire spectrum from structured processes to unstructured collaboration
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What concerns me is the divide between social business software and enterprise software vendors. I don’t think that most social business software is capable of managing industrial-strength core business processes. I also don’t think that most BPM software is capable of doing social collaboration really, really well – at least, not yet. However, the BPMS vendors have already done the heavy lifting of creating tools to manage business processes and gaining the trust of customer to manage those processe
I see ACM filling the huge gap between BPMS and Social Media. ACM uses elements of both and links to both as required. Yes, my kind of ACM can also replace a BPMS in a cinch and provide a customer focused, homogenous Information Workplace.
In relationship to BPMS the core subject is a very principal question. Do you want to put your people and business into a flowcharted straightjacket or not? Yes, go for BPMS flowcharts. No? You need something that empowers the business user for goals and outcomes, but not just in theoretical Balanced Scorecards and Powerpoints and then monitor some disconnected KPIs. Real-world, real-time, real product!
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One of the key distinctions to BPMS: ‘Process Design and Process Execution are separate entities.’ In ACM however, you DESIGN while you EXECUTE and it is not the same as Social BPM design that is also before execution.
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"There’s been much discussion of late on “Social BPM“. In particular, when should the magic “social” stuff happen – at design-time, or at run-time, of a process? There has also been a significant overlap with discussion around ACM (Advanced/Adaptive Case Management), wherein proponents of ACM advocate putting more power in the hands of users to dictate the flow of a “case” through their organization (if I can use the word “flow” to describe something that isn’t, in their view, a process)."
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- Those tools that offer an online community, a la SAG’s AlignSpace, or IBM’s Blueworks Beta, for process professionals.
- Tools that allow for collaboratively building process models, a la IBM’s Blueprint.
- Tools that allow for more collaborative run-time process execution (e.g. ActionBase). It is this third category that has overlap with the ACM space, by virtue of putting users in control of the process execution, rather than process designers.
If we can pull together a quick assessment of the terrain of “social” BPM tools:
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With Blueworks Liive, Phil is presenting a potential solution: software targeted at letting the 240 people in business improve their own processes, without needing to know words like BPM, or BPMN (let alone what the BPMN notation is all about).
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"Understand what capabilities you need: “Provide a scorecard… look at the interaction that need to be supported… Look at the types of processes supported… Review personalities in your organization.”
Assess what capabilities you already have: “Look at the skills in your organization… Make sure you put governance around BPM. You want to provide the framework, best practices and guidance.”
Identify the steps to get started with social BPM: “Don’t try to roll out social everybody, but look at where to start…. Look at your first project, look at the results, and expand social throughout the enterprise.
Look at your environment and how you can embrace social: “It may not be all of the patterns, but look at the pattern and identify the one that makes sense for you.”
Educate the business: “The biggest challenge we see with social BPM, is the term social isn’t necessarily a business process-oriented term. At the end of the day, all of your processes will be impacted buy some way by social. We need to start looking at how the two worlds come together.”"
"The future of social BPM lies in developing the best way to leverage social media tools to promote collaboration and coordination in the workplace – on an enterprise basis with a meaningful contribution to the business."
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When people are given the option to develop their own process, they are far more likely to efficiently use the model and be motivated to find additional areas for improvement. The idea behind it being – If you develop it, you will use it (rather than build it, and they will come).
"What to do When Process Modeling Doesn't Work"
"Now to define the simplest basic requirement for handling unstructured processes –enabling processes with emergent models – i.e. the participants are building up the models as they execute process instances (perhaps with some loosely defined guideline or best practice as a starting point). I will claim the ability to do that is at odds with the basic definition of BPM, since it precludes a model based approach."
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- The participants change the general model (either the model or the rules) – this is very dangerous, and the more rigorous and complex the model the greater the chance to screw up something big time. It also doesn’t make sense since this really might be a one-off execution.
- The participants have their own “local” copy of the process and they modify that. Still would be a lot of work for the participants, but there would also be all kinds of issues of multiple models existing for the “same” process – how to reconcile the changes, how do you store and access variants on a given model etc.
- The participants do things “outside” the existing model.
- It is outside the model, but under the control of the BPM engine. This requires a whole set of new capabilities for the engine. The engine will need to be something much different than a standard BPM (BPEL or BPMN) execution engine. The engine will need to become something VERY different (I would think encompass something much closer to a collaboration tool) – and then of course figure out how to reconcile that back into the original process. It opens a whole can of worms from an execution perspective – and it certainly isn’t anything like BPM today.
- It is outside the model, and not under the control of the BPM. If this happens all the time then the model is not worth much, and neither is the engine. So why start with the model at all?
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Unstructured, ad-hoc human processes can’t be modeled (or at least in any cost effective way) so current BPM tools can’t really handle them. Managing human processes requires a different, complementary set of technologies – and a different mindset.
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