AI Agents and a Pilgrimage
Your favorite co-host, J-M, walked 700 miles across Japan on a 1,200-year-old pilgrimage route a few months ago, contemplating how this relates to AI Agents. His reflection after 47 days and 88 temples? The journey required the same disciplines that make BPM effective: clear expectations, defined limits, transparency about progress, and continuous learning. Every step […]
Episode 101 — Lightweight Enterprise Architecture: Eetu Niemi
In this episode, we welcome Finnish enterprise architect and author Eetu Niemi to explore what it means to make enterprise architecture (EA) “lightweight”—practical”, collaborative, and relevant in the real world. From frameworks to fiction writing, from ivory towers to coffee-fueled collaboration, this conversation dives into how to make EA actually work for organizations. With over […]
Episode 100 – A Special Occasion With Friends
Welcome to a very special episode of What’s Your Baseline? — where we demystify enterprise architecture and business process management. In this milestone 100th episode, we are joined by fellow BPM podcasters from Prozess Philosophen and BPM360 to celebrate, reflect, and talk about the wild ride of creating content in this niche space. Russell Gomersall […]
Episode 99 1/2 — BPMN 3 (?) … Pt. 2 Ideas for Improvements
Last week we took a deep(-er) look at what BPMN is today and pointed out the scope, difficulties, and misconceptions in the current specification. But what are ideas for improvements? I am glad that you asked, because this episode is exactly about this (with a slight twist to the business side of things). In this […]
Episode 99 — BPMN 3 (?) … Pt. 1 Definition, History, and Complaints
BPMN—”the” standard for process modeling and also the foundation for process automation using BPMS tools—is currently in its version 2.02, and that version was published in early 2014. Since then? Crickets. So, why haven’t we seen an update of the standard? That is a big question and since we had such a blast talking about […]
LinkedIn Live—”MBA for BPM”
J-M was hosting a LinkedIn Live webinar a few weeks ago (on behalf of ARIS), and Roland was invited to be the guest speaker. Your favorite hosts reunited in a different situation 🙂 Besides whatever he put in the title and the description, we spoke about an introduction to Process Intelligence / Process Mining—what it […]
“From Hype to Reality – Process Mining that Works” (guest appearance on the Prozessphilosophen podcast)
I had the pleasure to speak again on the “Prozessphilosophen” podcast again (in German!) and to talk about my new book, “Successful Process Mining Projects,” and the topic of process mining in regular organizations. Here is the announcement of the episode: “New episode #74 is out: From Hype to Reality – Process Mining that Works […]
Episode 98 — Decisions, Decisions … with Tony Phillips
There is a thing that I have not seen managed well in today’s organizations: business rules. Typically, they are an “afterthought” in implementations (because you have to feed the business rules engine and control the process flow). But how many organizations rationalize the underlying business rules on a larger scale? When was the last time […]
“Successful Process Mining Projects” Book Launch
A little different note from me today—no announcement of a new episode, but the announcement of my new book, which was officially released yesterday, on September 15. Yes, you read that right; I have written a second book. This time it is about ‘Successful Process Mining Projects,’ and it covers the whole process for identifying […]
Episode 97 — Successful Process Mining Projects (Roland wrote a book … AGAIN)
Process Mining—a technology and technique that Gartner just called “early mainstream” in one of their last reports. But many people still don’t know exactly how to approach this thing. They listen to the vendors talking about technical integrations and all the fancy features, which—to be honest—can be pretty overwhelming for someone who is just looking […]
Episode 96 — Integrated Management System: Vassiliki Spentzou
We are hundreds of years into thinking about how we do work (insert your philosopher of choice here: Smith, Marx, Plato, etc.), but I get the impression that the most common style is “muddling through.” But why is that? Why has the concept of an Integrated Management System (IMS) not taken hold in many organizations? […]
Episode 95 — Green BPM: Katharina Paulick
Having lived in two cultures, it is so interesting to see how people cope with big problems. Climate change and sustainability are some of the biggest issues that we have to deal with in our lifetimes, and I see reactions from denial to aimless “do-gooder” activity. But how do you improve this situation and solve […]