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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 42 – Structure Your Business Architecture

I see a lot of separated efforts in organizations – people run projects, implement systems, restructure the organization, and model processes. Aren’t these all connected activities that should be coordinated to create a *gulp* architecture that carries the load? But what is a “Business Architecture” and how is it different from just an assembly of […]

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Episode 41 – Organizational Change Management: Jehane Adam

If you have listened to a couple of podcast episodes you know that we are true believers in that the biggest “problem” in any architecture, BPM, or Process Mining project is not the technology or the processes and other architecture views – it is the people! Getting people along with your change is the hardest thing to do […]

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Episode 40 – Strategy to Execution: Dan Marquez

Developing a strategy for your organization seems like a mystery for a lot of people (and some organizations make a large coin from keeping that mystery), but in all reality it has a big part of “wild guesses” included. In this episode of the What’s Your Baseline Podcast we have Dan Marquez on the show, who […]

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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 38 – Solution Engineering

Welcome to Season 4 of our podcast. Today we are talking about Solution Engineering, aka Presales, and what you can expect from your vendor’s solution engineers (vs. their consultants). In this episode of the podcast we are talking about: Please reach out to us by either sending an email to hello@whatsyourbaseline.com or leaving us a voice message […]

WYB Shorts 9 - A Holiday Special with Jeremy Voltz

A Holiday Special with Jeremy Voltz – What’s Your Baseline Shorts 9

Today we have a special What’s Your Baseline Shorts episode for you, that has nothing to do with Enterprise Architecture or Business Process Management. However, we think that you will like it: our guest today is Jeremy Voltz, an indie-soul musician from Toronto, Ontario, who is gracefully letting us use his music for all intros, […]

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Episode 37 – (I can’t believe it is another) Ten things I’ve learned

Welcome to another episode of our podcast. In the final episode of the final season for this year, we are talking about another ten things we’ve learned over the years: Please reach out to us by either sending an email to hello@whatsyourbaseline.com or leaving us a voice message by clicking here. Additional information Credits Music by Jeremy Voltz, […]

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Episode 36 – Lean and Six Sigma: Ron Baker

There was a lot of buzz around Lean and Six Sigma back in the 80s and 90s, but not today anymore. However, the practice is not dead and it is still relevant and used in many industries today. And there are good reasons to take a step back and have another look at why it […]