Thomas Olbrich
Thomas Olbrich
Thomas is the co-founder of taraneon Consulting Group, which runs the innovative and award-winning Process TestLab to increase process quality and enable a better process experience.
Will social BPM supercharge BPM?
What a timely coincidence, having just finished a 2 week session on "social(-ized?)" BPM with several clients. What we did was rather banal but...
BPM: Don’t laugh, it could be your new strategy
BPM is awash with theories. Some develop concepts in order to create a term they hope will be part of the BPM buzzword dictionary...
BPM: The intellectual challenge
"Business process management is an intellectual challenge, not a technological or financial one" Hats off to Gartner for creating two major discussions out of one...
BPMN 2.0: The day they created a better world
Open the champagne bottles, invite your neighbours over for a celebration because the glorious day has finally arrived: BPMN 2.0 is here – next...
Process TestLab: Looking at some of the test results
Last week we put out a short animation showing some of the results we collected from the Process TestLab over the past year. We...
2 minutes on process quality
Sometimes figures and facts tell you more than elaborate presentations. Sit back and enjoy the next two minutes while our short film tells you...
BPM: Who’s the customer of your process?
One of the issues we try to get our clients focussed on during process design is to determine who the customer of the process...
BPM: How training programs reflect growing process awareness
A lot of what we do in our consulting and Process TestLab work tends to make its way into our training programs. A couple...
A world without BPM?
(In reply to Keith Swenson) In a recent discussion I asked the question of how much worse off we'd be if BPM and BPM systems...
How agile is agile?
Agility seems to be on everyone’s mind and it follows that agility has become the main promise of process management, or rather of vendors...
Follow-up from our resident engineer
Norbert has kindly provided the calculations and formulas he used in the previous posting to let you check your results for yourselves. World cup and...
Who wants to be a millionaire, the World Cup, a bit of physics and process time
(Freely translated from the original german posting by Dr. Norbert Kaiser, co-founder of taraneon and – unfortunately – an engineer) Now we come to the...
On dinosaurs and ex-processes
Personally I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of evolution. Something new slowly stepping out of its old self. Take dinosaurs for example. Those...
Precision and subtext does count for something
No prizes for guessing what this is. Most people would say: This is the Mona Lisa … and they'd be wrong. The picture depicted someone...