People ⋮ Processes ⋮ Information Technology
My three-months stay at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Department of Information Systems and Operations, has finished "in the blink of an eye". Vienna’s skyline is a wonder to behold, whereas the Gloriette at the top of Schönbrunn's park is one of my favorites. The featured photo was taken with my mobile phone. …
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Currently I am working as a visiting professor at WU Vienna (Vienna University of Economics and Business), at the Department of Information Systems and Operations, where I've just completed lecturing the "Process Implementation" course consisting of the following main topics: Introduction to business process automation. Implementing processes with Bonita BPM. Simulating processes with BIMP. Theory …
Finally got the latest and the brightest book for my BPM course. Many thanks to the authors for sharing their knowledge and experience.
It is difficult and not self-evident that a listener will interpret the message in the same way as the sender anticipated, whereas wrong interpretations might seriously impact the (business) decisions made out of communicating.
A part of my bachelor "Business Process Modeling" course is related to teaching common control-flow behavior in business processes and process-aware information systems - commonly known as workflow or more specifically control-flow patterns. The website workflowpatterns.com is a perfect reference source for teaching control-flow patterns whereas I try to represent the patterns in BPMN, a standardized …
This study year (2017/18) is already the 5th iteration of running the Business Process Modeling course at the local university. And while the curse evolves with each iteration, its technological basis remained the same during the past years, namely BPMN 2.0. The main objective of my Business Process Modeling course is that the students attain a …
It was almost an instant decision accepting an offer to prepare a BPM/BPMN workshop for a life-insurance company, located in 15 million metropol Istanbul. And I didn't regret it, in any case. How it all begun In February I've been contacted by Nobleprog, a global training and consultancy provider, if I would be prepared to …
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While there was so much interest for downloading my presentation entitled "Business process modeling with BPMN (2nd edition)" on SlideShare, I've decided to open them (at least temporary) for the download. Many thanks for making the slides so popular. They are the first result of the SlideShare search with the keyword 'BPMN' and have been …
If you are interested in topics related to business process modeling with BPMN, you may check white papers I've authored for Orbus Software. And here are the abstracts of the whitepapers. Modeling transactions with BPMN 2.0 Do you need to model business translations in a standardized way? Check this white paper! Similar to databases, transactions …
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The title of this post is a quote authored by Zora Neale Hurston and it gorgeously reflects what is scientific research about. Is represents the production of new knowledge, a scientific one, which is based on a proven research methodology. And here is one of my small contributions on how to perform it. Back in 2008, …
Gregor Polančič 