In the afternoon, after my BPM COE presentation, I moved over to the AWD ADVANCE technical track to hear Roy Brackett and Mike Hudgins talk about crowdsourcing and microwork. DST and some of their partners/siblings/subsidiaries are business process outsourcers, and always looking at ways to make that outsourcing more efficient. They use the term crowdsourcing [...]
Tagged awd13Gartner’s had a good webinar series lately, including one last month with Alexa Bona on software licensing and pricing (link to “roll your own webinar” download of slides in PDF and audio in mp3 separately), as part of their series on IT and the economy. As enterprises look to tighten their belts, software licenses are [...]
I just bought a new pair of winter boots, guaranteed waterproof and warm to -20C; I stood in the store and swore to the sales clerk that I was not going to have cold, wet feet this year (I probably sounded a bit melodramatic, like Scarlett O’Hara declaring that she’d never be hungry again). For [...]
Tagged BCPMethinks the simplification of the workplace has just gone too far: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Successful Outsourcing.
If you missed Tom Davenport’s excellent article “The Coming Commoditization of Processes” in last month’s Harvard Business Review, they’ve published an excerpt to entice you to buy the full reprint. Mr. Davenport, as always, has brilliant insights: “Despite the trend toward outsourcing, however, most companies have remained in do-it-yourself mode for most processes… Because of [...]
I work mostly with large financial services clients, which means that there’s a lot of legacy software around. They seem to be pretty good at updating the hardware to avoid the threat of an unsupported system outage, but most of the custom software just keeps getting older and older. In many cases, large portions of [...]
