Regardless of its market, maturity and size, in order to thrive, a business must manage its day-to-day operations through well-defined, executed, and controlled processes and decisions. The top performers automate both with two automation technologies: Business Process Management (BPM) and Business Decision Management (BDM). …

Executive summary The modern economy is replete with stories of organizations that vanished (Kodak), others that survived (Fujifilm), and others that thrived (Apple). When you read the full adventures, you find that the main character was innovations ―plural because there is not just one but different kinds of innovations. …

Time to time, I take a random walk through the landscape of programming languages, the raw material of the computing industry without which no software would even exist. New languages continue to spark as if programming was novel. Each has aficionados and detractors, and estimating their popularity is far from…

“Any plan won’t survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.” — Jeff Bezos What is it that really makes a project complex? The answer is not specifications, time, budget, or quality, but vagueness, uncertainty, and change. Whatever attention you…

Move data to the center and surveys to the edge! Amazon is an amazing company and deserves attention if not admiration on how it creates, shapes, and manages markets -A reason why I consider the annual letter of its founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, a must read for everyone, be…

The phrase “digital transformation” has become so common that we tend not to realize there are two flavors of digital transformation. One is tactical focusing on user experience, the other is strategic focusing on internal operations. …

Any big traditional company dreams to be like Google, Facebook, or Amazon but there is one thing that separate the former that existed before the birth of the Internet, from the latter which started with the Internet: they were not born with data mining and machine learning in their DNA. …