“If I had an hour to save the world, I would spend 59 min defining the problem and one minute finding solutions (Einstein)”

More and more people, both in industry and academia, consider process mining as one of the most important innovations in the field of business process management. It joins ideas of process modeling and analysis on the one hand and data mining and machine learning on the other.

In cadrul evenimentului "Enterprise 3.0 - Concept & Tehnologie", organizat pe 2 noiembrie 2010, ne-am propus sa prezentam o noua perspectiva de management, cu ajutorul careia partenerii nostri obtin avantaje competitive intr-un mediu de afaceri in continua schimbare. Ne-am concentrat pe intelegerea fundamentelor conceptului de Enterprise 3.0, in relatia cu practica de afaceri si cu abordarea de consultanta a Enterprise Concept. Demonstratiile si exemplele oferite de TIBCO Software au evidentiat modalitati prin care se actioneaza eficient si in timp real. Am concluzionat cu o provocare adresata industriei de tehnologia informatiei: Democratizarea Software-ului.

Acest eveniment s-a desfasurat pentru a transmite idei, pentru a crea si dezvolta parteneriate de inovatie. Un aspect important pe care l-am transmis este acela ca Enterprise Concept a pornit acum 5 ani, in data de 2 noiembrie de la o misiune: de a unifica logica de business cu zona de IT din cadrul companiilor. Am reusit sa trecem de acest obstacol, combinand standardizarea cu creativitatea si cu profesionalismul echipei de consultanti.

Va invitam sa consultati prezentarile de la eveniment aici, precum si o selectie de fotografii aici.

Mai jos veti gasi o scurta descriere a principalelor teme, precum si agenda evenimentului.

E dimineata. Esti in intarziere si abia apuci sa faci o cafea pe fuga, doar ca sa fii putin mai alert in prima parte a zilei. Acesta e singurul scop al cafelei. Te inspira? Cu siguranta nu. Dar gandeste-te la cafeaua din dimineata aceasta grabita, aceeasi cafea, si da-i un context: esti in Noua Caledonie, cel mai indepartat loc de Romania pe Glob. E liniste, este dimineata pe aceasta minunata insula, soarele rasare ca si cum ar fi primul rasarit pe care il vede tarmul. Esti pe un scaun confortabil si privesti cum lumea parca o ia de la capat. Ei bine, tocmai ai fost transpus intr-o experienta, in care cafeaua este un element principal.

Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash) is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to Web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements and games. More recently, it has been positioned as a tool for the so-called "Rich Internet Application" ("RIA").

Flash manipulates vector and raster graphics to provide animation of text, drawings, and still images. It supports bidirectional streaming of audio and video, and it can capture user input via mouse, keyboard, microphone, and camera. Flash contains an Object-oriented language called ActionScript.

Flash content may be displayed on various computer systems and devices, using Adobe Flash Player, which is available free for common Web browsers, some mobile phones and a few other electronic devices (using Flash Lite).

History

Originally acquired by Macromedia, Flash was introduced in 1996, and is currently developed and distributed by Adobe Systems. The precursor to the Flash application was SmartSketch, a drawing application for pen computers running the PenPoint OS developed by Jonathan Gay, who began working on it in college and extended the idea for Silicon Beach Software and its successors....

When you hear for the first time about BPM, it’s possible to consider it just an acronym - like most in the technology area. After identifying the complete name of this acronym, Business Process Management, you may start to be curious.

This happened in my case, when my collaborator Anton started to explain to me, in a friendly and non-technical manner, this concept and how it is actually implemented in the Enterprise Concept projects.

According to Wikipedia, “Business process management (BPM) is a management approach focused on aligning all aspects of an organization with the wants and needs of clients. It is a holistic management approach that promotes business effectiveness and efficiency while striving for innovation, flexibility, and integration with technology.”

You might be also familiar with Enterprise Concept’s definition: “Business process management (BPM) is a systematic approach to improving an organization's business processes. BPM activities seek to make business processes more effective, more efficient, and more capable of adapting to an ever-changing environment. BPM is a subset of infrastructure management, the administrative area of concern dealing with maintenance and optimization of an organization's equipment and core operations.”

Let’s say that now we have a first impression about BPM, and we may start consider the value of this concept important because it provides three important benefits: efficiency, effectiveness and agility, to  every company.

For the moment, while defining and analyzing the benefits of BPM, we are positioned in the present. But what about the past and the future of this concept?

Marcus Aurelius thought about the importance of the past in creating the future:”Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.”

So let’s hear the BPM voices from the past!