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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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? […]
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 […]
We are back with our first episode of the brand-new season 9 of the podcast—and we are starting right into the topic of these days: AI … well, the AI hype that is out there. And we are discussing what you can do to avoid falling into the trap of falling for that hype. Our […]
I am super honored to be featured as the first person in Pedro Robledo‘s newsletter “VOCES BPM” and its new segment “People who inspire.” His newsletter is in Spanish, and I appreciate the opportunity to connect to non-English (or, in my case, also non-German) speakers since we all experience the same questions and issues, and […]
Today we have our last “What’s Your Baseline?” short during our little summer break. And this time we’re looking at something special. This is a Shorts about APQC and we had a long episode with Moritz Berger about what that framework is and all of those things. And Moritz put in the APQC reference framework into […]
This week we release another What’s Your Baseline? Shorts for you just to lighten up our summer break a bit. The topic is why simulation should not be in your process mining tool. And I’m fully aware that this is a controversial thing because people might think, “Well, it’s convenient to have it in your process mining tool […]
