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Episode 55 – Podcasting and Architecture: Josèphe Blondaut, Jakub Dvořák, Mirko Kloppenburg

The way how we communicate and learn has changed over the last couple of years. One contributing factor is podcasting (or videocasting – we are no purists over here at What’s Your Baseline?). By now there are tons of excellent podcasts about Business Process Management, Process Mining, and Enterprise Architecture out there free of charge for you. We […]

APQC: Moritz Berger

Episode 54 – APQC: Moritz Berger

We spoke about frameworks and reference content as accelerators in a previous episode (listen here), but one of those is pretty popular here in North America, so that we have a deeper look into the APQC Process Classification Framework today. We are talking with Moritz Berger about the ins-and-outs of APQC, and will extend this […]

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Episode 53 – Subject-oriented Process Management: Christoph Piller

Process Management has a bad reputation of downsizing, replacing humans with bots, and all those other things that one relates to “bad capitalism”. But there are also other ways to include humans into process management that are outside of these parameters. And, believe it or not, you still need humans to analyze, design, and improve […]

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Episode 49 – Customer Experience Management

Welcome to the last episode of our podcast in Season 4 (no worries, we’ll be back for a Season 5). Today we are talking about Customer Experience Management, which is complimentary to BPM and EA. The key difference is that Customer Experience Management has an outside-in perspective on things, versus the inside-out perspective of your […]

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Episode 46 – Gamification and Performance Management

Welcome to the next episode of our podcast. Today we are talking about Gamification, a topic that we are a bit critical towards, but which seems to be here to stay (it’s a generational thing, I guess…). But the twist in this episode is how it influences the performance of your architecture or business process […]

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Episode 45 – Why do CIOs need Enterprise Architecture: Luca de Risi

Enterprise Architects? Aren’t those the useless people who always say “no”? That is one of the perspectives we have heard about EAs in the past. But what can EAs do and how do the progress from “noisy” to “influential”? In this episode of the What’s Your Baseline? podcast we discuss the role of Enterprise Architects […]

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 […]

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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 […]