The intelligent Business Process Management Suite (iBPMS) is a new generation of BPMS enhanced with machine and human intelligence. It is an emerging BPM technology that helps to meet the need of intelligent business operations. The iBPMS expands on the traditional BPMS by adding new functionality to support intelligent business operations, such as real-time business intelligence, complex event processing, deep human collaboration and mobility.
Business continuity is at stake for many organizations in the public and private domain. The pace of change and increasing complexity makes it extremely hard for organizations to sustain business value and assure survival. All public and private organizations experience in their own way the consequences of the fundamental shift that has taken place from a manufacturing paradigm to a services, information and hybrid economy.
Regulations are growing faster than the GDP. In fact, in a world of economic
decline, it is the fastest growing industry. The rate of increase
exceeds the capability of heavily
regulated industries to integrate them into their environment; leaving these businesses and their management vulnerable to fines, censure
or worse. It becomes
more and more clear that ‘business as usual’ is cancelled. Old recipes don’t work anymore. The business operating
system is coming
to a grinding halt.
There is a lot of attention in the media about the Internet of Things (IOT) and the robotization of out information society. Techno-euforia and technofobia dominate the perception and tend to distract us from what the real fundamental question is.
The
intelligent enterprise of the 21st century needs the fusion and infusion of
data and knowledge based on contextual intelligence to support decision making at business moments.
The McKinsey 7S Framework is a management model that dates back to 1980. It is a well-known model that is used to help identify what needs to be realigned to improve performance, or to maintain alignment (and performance) during types of change. The 7-P model has a similar function to identify and curate the essence of Governance, Risk and Compliance issues.
Recently the HBR Network Blog published an article about the question whether employers should ban email after working hours. In the midst of this article some astonishing Gallup's research results were mentioned. Seven in 10 American workers are “not engaged” or “actively disengaged” in their work, meaning they are emotionally disconnected from their workplaces and less likely to be productive.
Last week a young couple wanted to book a last minute flight on a German low-cost airline. They were confronted with a peculiar arithmetic operation.