BPM Adoption Framework: Caspar Jans

Episode 66 – BPM Adoption Framework: Caspar Jans

You have chosen to start your BPM journey and are now asking yourself the question “how *DO* I get started?”. Well, one way is to look at a BPM Adoption Framework, the other is to ask someone who has done that before. We are lucky to speak with someone who fulfills both criteria – our […]

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Episode 65 – Data Modeling

This episode closes out the mini series about data, and this time we talk about data modeling. Data models are some of the things that I have seen the least often in projects over the last two decades. Why is that? Is it because it is too geeky, or not interesting enough compared to, say, […]

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Episode 64 – Data Projects: Wiebke Apitzsch

A lot of projects are just looking at processes and applications. One thing that typically does not get the limelight is the data that is needed to empower these two things. But why is that? Is it because data is “invisible” and cannot be touched or felt? Our guest today is Wiebke Apitzsch, who is […]

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Episode 62 – BPM Implementation – A User Story: Martin Holling

This episode is a first for the podcast – we are not talking about something from an external perspective, but speak with someone “in the trenches” who is actively implementing BPM in an 160-year old organization. Our guest today is Martin Holling, who is working at Kemna (a road construction company in northern Germany) and […]

6-step approach to process mining

How to Ensure Success with Process Mining: The Six Steps Every Company Should Follow

By Roland Woldt Over the past few years, there’s been a lot of hype about process mining. Businesses across the globe are adopting mining tools to take advantage of data-driven insights that allow them to streamline their business operations. They do this to save time and reduce costs, helping companies achieve strategic goals and maintain […]

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Episode 61 – BPM and Process Lifecycle

We had a couple of episodes where we discussed the Solution / Process Lifecycle, but this time we look at it from the perspective of Business Process organizations. What we see is a distinction between the different disciplines that are needed to deliver a full solution and there are organizations that see a “them” and […]

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Episode 60 – Operational Intelligence: Shoeb Javed

We are wrapping up Season 5 of this podcast with an episode that I was looking forward to for quite some time now – we are talking about operational intelligence. What is that, you might ask. Well it is the insights into what your complex organization does by using technology and measuring the important things, […]

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Writing a book: Michael Schank – What’s Your Baseline Shorts 12

You might have heard it in the last episode of the podcast (Ep. 59: Process Inventory), that our guest Michael Schank has written a book 😉 That triggered two things with us – first, making a WYB Shorts about the process of writing a book and become a published author, and second, nudging Michael for […]

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Episode 59 – Process Inventory: Michael Schank

How do you plan your transformation? By looking out of the window or asking your two best friends? Or would it be better if you had an overview of all the things that your organization does – in the form of a process inventory? Michael is a distinguished thought leader and executive, specializing in addressing […]

Learning and Enablement

Episode 58 – Learning and Enablement: Ron Cohen, Peter Dern, Adam Egger

How do you set up learning and enablement for your architecture/process people? What has changed since the days of instructor-led training, and where will the field of enablement go into the future (hint: it might be creepy for some of us). In this episode of the What’s Your Baseline? podcast we are looking into the […]

Center of Excellence: Thi Nguyen

Episode 56 – Center of Excellence: Gia Thi Nguyen

Implementing a tool or standing up a new capability can be a complex task. Standing up a Center of Excellence as part of this implementation can help ease the pain for new users. However, it is not always clear what a CoE shall do and how it is integrated into an organization (or where it […]

Design-driven Transformation: James Toomey

Episode 51 – Design-driven Transformation: James Toomey

We had the topic of today’s episode – transformation – a couple of times on this podcast, even though we did not call the episodes like that. But why? Because transformation in today’s times is not an exception but the reality for all organizations. It is not just “an update by IT”, or something that […]