A good friend of mine, Dr. Alexander Samarin gave a presentation at the Architecture and Process Conference last week in Washington DC.

The sildes, titled "Architecting Enterprise BPM Systems for Optimal Agility" are available below:


Particularly check out slides 17-18;).

But what I found very useful about this slide deck was the appreciation of how complex it is to build optimal agility throughout the enterprise. The good news, I am now paraphrasing, is that BPM can be done incrementally, is appreciated by the various stakeholders and all participants can, in effect, mark off their own territory in the sandbox.

Alexander already demonstrated it with several of our customers in Switzerland. He is also putting together a book explaining how to improve BPM systems with the help of Intalio|BPMS: "Improving business process management systems" (www.improving-BPM-systems.com)