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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, …
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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While having record low temperatures of the season, the summer semester starts today at University of Maribor. This semester I will provide the following lectures: Business Process Modeling (1st Bologna stage on ICT study program). Business Process Management (2nd Bologna stage on ICT study program). Empirical Research Methods (2nd Bologna stage on ICT study program). While …
Ten years ago, in 2008 I was already investigating BPMN and I realized that beside the BPMN specification and some research articles, there was a luck of simple learning materials. Together with my colleague Tomislav Rozman, we've decided to create a poster which presented BPMN notation as well the best and worst practices of using …
Eight years of lecturing Business-IT alignment It is already eight years since I started to collaborate with my college prof. Pavlo Brin (from National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute” NTU-KPI) in my master course “IT and services management”. We collaborate in a section of the course, which is related to “Business-IT alignment”, where our courses …
I've finished the lectures in my 2017/18 bachelor course entitled "Communication methods and technologies". In summary, the objective of the course is to qualify students for effective and efficient communication by exploiting theory as well corresponding IT tools. In order to make the course more dynamic, two sections of popular sci-fi movies were analyzed this …
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I've just successfully finished a workshop entitled "Defining processes with BPMN" within LEAP Slovenia 2017 conference.
My one month visit as a researcher on Vienna University of Economics and Business has finished. From the professional manner, I've definitively achieved stated objectives. I've got insights into the pedagogical approaches and contents of the hosting institution, where I already applied some novelties (e.g. updated courses descriptions, and new thesis's topics). I've participated in several …
Another successful BPM/BPMN related seminar is finished. This time at the biggest bank in the region. The workshop was slightly specialized to the audience and included lectures and practical part, where the participants modeled actual banking processes using BPMN.io web modeling tool. In all criteria, participants rated the workshop over 98%. To get a feeling …
Gregor Polančič 