People ⋮ Processes ⋮ Information Technology
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 …
Today, a focal theme in one of Slovenia's main daily newspapers Večer is related to business processes. The article entitled "Working processes are the most neglected part of public sector" (slo. "Delovni procesi so najbolj zanemarjen del javnega sektorja") the interviewed public employee and expert mag. Mario Plešej states the following (translated from Slovenian language) : …
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 …
The header image of my website (showing a Falcon 9 rocket) was changed to express my support for the maiden flight of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket, which will attempt to launch today at 7.30 PM CET.
Business processes are an essential part of each organization since they represent a template describing how organizational activities (and other assets) are interrelated in order to produce an outcome (i.e. products or services). Thus, processes are important organizational assets, however in contrast to materials, tools or infrastructure, they are intangible, representing an abstraction of instances …
Attending a seminar about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), presented by the Deputy Information representative of Republic Slovenia. GDPR definitely affects People, Processes and IT.
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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In 2016 the focus of our work was on research activities and they yield results in 2017. Several articles were published (with coauthors), where I will highlight some of the best ones. At this point I also want to express my gratefulness to all the coauthors for great work and excellent collaboration. Complexity metrics for …
Gregor Polančič 