This past month, www.bptrends.com has asked its readers to vote on what they think will be the next hot topic for BPM. We had more votes than we normally get for one of our informal surveys and a much clearer result. 58% or 25 readers chose Digital Transformation. This was in contrast to alternative options […]
Paul Harmon
Executive Editor and Founder, Business Process Trends
In addition to his role as Executive Editor and Founder of Business Process Trends, Paul Harmon is Chief Consultant and Founder of Enterprise Alignment, a professional services company providing educational and consulting services to managers interested in understanding and implementing business process change.
Paul is a noted consultant, author and analyst concerned with applying new technologies to real-world business problems. He is the author of Business Process Change: A Manager's Guide to Improving, Redesigning, and Automating Processes (2003). He has previously co-authored Developing E-business Systems and Architectures (2001), Understanding UML (1998), and Intelligent Software Systems Development (1993). Mr. Harmon has served as a senior consultant and head of Cutter Consortium's Distributed Architecture practice. Between 1985 and 2000 Mr. Harmon wrote Cutter newsletters, including Expert Systems Strategies, CASE Strategies, and Component Development Strategies.
Paul has worked on major process redesign projects with Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Security Pacific, Prudential, and Citibank, among others. He is a member of ISPI and a Certified Performance Technologist. Paul is a widely respected keynote speaker and has developed and delivered workshops and seminars on a wide variety of topics to conferences and major corporations through out the world.
Paul lives in San Francisco.
Paul can be reached at pharmon@bptrends.com
The Challenge of Automation
January 11, 2017 , By
Obama gave a farewell address this past week and he addressed a variety of topics, including trade and the problems of jobs going overseas. The interesting thing he said, however, was missed by most commentators. He argued that… “…the next wave of economic dislocation won’t come from overseas. It will come from the relentless pace […]
Where to Study BPM
January 3, 2017 , By
Class Notes: Where to Study Business Process Management? A Global Perspective Based on EDUglopedia.org One of the interesting things that has occured in the past decade is the emergence of serious academic programs that offer instruction in BPM. One can now take a MA or even a PhD in BPM. This, in turn, guarantees that, […]
Corporate Business Process Architectures
December 31, 2016 , By
This past month we conducted a mini-poll on www.bptrends.com and asked readers to describe their organization’s commitment to a business process architecture. The response spread over a variety of options. 18% said they didn’t have a business process architecture and that no one seemed to care. A similar number said they didn’t have a business […]
Process and Productivity: The Lost Decade
December 3, 2016 , By
When you study an organization and try to figure out how to improve the way the sales process works, you may not think of yourself as contributing to the success of the nation. Ultimately, however, the best way to judge the overall results of process improvement, is by looking at a company or a nation’s productivity. […]
Entrepreneurship and Reinvention is the Order of the Day
November 23, 2016 , By
Business process change always has many aspects. Some, today, are focused on new notations (CMMN, DMN) that will allow for more flexible process designs. Others are focused on integrating cognitive computing techniques into process applications. I suspect, however, that the most important current trend, however, is the redesign of processes using new technologies. We are […]
Learning About Process Mining
November 14, 2016 , By
Over the past two years, Wil van der Aalst, and others associated with promoting Process Mining have developed a free online course that teaches the basics of this exciting approach. Here is a press release about the course. If you are in a position to take advantage of this, you should probably consider it… Subject: […]
Learning About BPMN
October 30, 2016 , By
The Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) was created by a committee working with the OMG a few years ago. The person who chaired that committee was Stephen White, who, at the time, worked for IBM. Dr. White has written several articles describing BPMN which have been published on BPTrends website. He is prepared to write […]
Macro and Micro Processes
September 23, 2016 , By
As I work with people trying to analyze processes, I increasingly find myself drawn to the importance of distinguishing between the problems associated with (1) large scale processes, like value chains and level one processes like Manufacture x and Sell x, and (2) smaller processes, like sets of activities that can be automated by software […]
Back to School
September 14, 2016 , By
I had a nice vacation in August, visiting a variety of old friends, but now its fall and, as I’ve though for most of my life, “its time to go back to school.” Which, a this point, means reading and reviewing business process materials of various kinds to learn what’s happening. The process market, as […]
