Process Notations (and why they are not important): Walter Bril

Episode 44 – Process notations (and why they are not important): Walter Bril

When starting with process management one of the first questions is “what process notation shall I use”. In this episode of the What’s Your Baseline? podcast we discuss this question with Walter Bril, who is one of the co-inventors of the Universal Process Notation (UPN) and why it is not *really* important what notation you […]

Process management for small business: Adi Klevit

Episode 43 – Process management for small organizations: Adi Klevit

What are the needs of a small business compared to a larger one? Can they use the same approaches for process improvement and business process management? Shall they use the same tools? This week we are speaking with an expert on this topic (and also a small business owner herself – Adi Klevit. Adi is running […]

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Episode 39 – Lean and Process Mining: Sebastian Kotulla

A lot of people think that the work is done when they have a process be visualized in their process mining tool and a nice dashboard is built. Nothing could be further from the truth and our guest today, Sebastian Kotulla, talks with us about why that is. To bridge the gap between visualizing data/information […]

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Episode 34 – Process automation: Bernd Rücker

Being the reasonable adult seems to be the parallel topic of this week’s episode – even though the main topic is process automation. We were just so excited in our conversation that we got carried away  In this episode of the What’s Your Baseline podcast we speak with Bernd Rücker. He is a software developer […]

New Process Podcast guest appearance

“New Process” podcast guest appearance

Running a podcast – the gift that keeps on giving. This time our favorite co-host J-M and one of our guests, Caspar Jans (Episode 16 – Management of Change) are tag-teaming on Mirko Kloppenburg’s “New Process” podcast. And coincidentally, Mirko is also the guest of our current Episode 33 – How to inspire people for […]

How to inspire people for process

Episode 33 – How to inspire people for process: Mirko Kloppenburg

We talk (a lot) about technology and processes here on the podcast. But what about the human side of Business Process Management? Do we just forget them and aim for the desired outcome no matter what? No, we don’t … In this episode of the What’s Your Baseline podcast we speak with Mirko Kloppenburg, who started […]

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Episode 31 – Security architecture: Rick Smith

Updating the “plumbing” is not sexy. Looking at measures being put in place to avoid the worst case or deal with it when it happens is not fancy. Educating people and reminding them on being alert is exhausting. However, the topic of Security and Security Architecture is one of the most important things to do, […]

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Episode 28 – Quality Excellence: Wings Liang

A few months ago we had an initial look at how to manage and implement change in our conversation with Caspar Jans (in Episode 16) and we are continuing that series with an excellent conversation with Wings Liang about Quality Excellence and how organizations need to “shift left” and can gain competitive advantage by changing their perspective. Wings helps […]

Communicating the value of architecture

Episode 26 – Communicating the value of architecture: Laurie Kelly

One of the biggest problems of architecture groups was (is?) that they are doing good work, but that will not be recognized by others. One of the causes for that is that their repository and artifacts have almost no visibility outside of their group. To mitigate this situation, we are speaking with Laurie Kelly about […]

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Episode 15 – Strategic process consulting in practice

Setting up a strategic process consulting practice or firm in our industry is not easy. On the one hand side you have the large system integrators/Big 4 companies, and on the other side you have the tool vendors helping setting up internal practices and capabilities. Finding your niche in that setup and build a sustainable […]

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Episode 14 – EA strategy and capabilities

EA strategy development is not done very often, but has many benefits. In this episode of the podcast, we are talking with Carlisle Gunn, an experienced Enterprise Architect, who we’ve worked with on past projects. Carlisle has worked in the Enterprise Architecture space for over 8 years with a focus on business and application architecture. […]

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The changing role of architects

Even though the discipline of architecture is decades old (and if you look at the discipline of process management, even hundreds of years), there is no consensus of what an architect actually defines. And the practitioners have not been helpful as well in their self-positioning. “Back in the day” a lot of architecture groups held […]