Marius here again..... Highlights: On average, 80% of the IT budget goes toward maintenance and only 20% goes to new projects. On top of that, IT budgets keep shrinking year after year. This creates a big challenge in funding large initiatives like BPM. IT projects for cost reduction have been successful...

Hi Marius here again with highlights from day 2 of the Gartner BPM conference. Back of the Napkin You may have heard of the book called The Back of the Napkin : Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures. It’s one of the latest books creating a buzz in business community. Dan Roam, the author...

Marius Grigoriu here.... I am a Program manager with CISG and in keeping with good program management its straight down to business. Today was the first official day of the Gartner BPM Conference at Washington DC and I am posting daily trip reports. In the Connected Information Security Group we believe...

Dennis Groves here.... The most common list is the to-do list , and it is the one we are all most familiar with and so the real value of a checklist is often very misunderstood . Aviation and medicine make heavy use of them. Computer programs are basically a sequential list of operations to for the computer...