People ⋮ Processes ⋮ Information Technology
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 web is full of guidelines and templates on how to document processes. However the majority of them is partial - related to the description of the workflow-related information only (e.g. process activities, process boundaries, process inputs and outputs, process roles, etc.). Process documentation is more than just a process diagram. There is process-related information …
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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) : …
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 …
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 