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 it!
Finally got the latest and the brightest book for my BPM course. Many thanks to the authors for sharing their knowledge and experience.
How effectively do we convey information? A small experiment.
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.
Modeling critical sections in BPMN
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 …
Triple crown! Better as a single one.
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 …
Report from my BPM/BPMN adventure in Istanbul
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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Business process modeling with BPMN
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 …
Interested in BPMN? Check these White Papers
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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“Research is formalized curiosity”
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, …
Do you prefer learning by video? Check this BPMN stuff!
Are you interested in business processes and the corresponding ISO standard - BPMN and do you prefer to learn by videos instead of slides? And you have only two minutes of time per day? In this case I recommend you to watch Orbus software's BPMN Distilled series of short videos, which give you a good foundation …
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