Tag: blueprint
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My Presentation and Interview from Cloud Camp
My blogging has been a bit anemic lately. We had our big Blueprint launch in the middle of last month accompanied by the post launch clean up of all the stuff I had designated as “get to it after the launch.” And then there was strep throat and visiting relatives…blah…blah..blah. So here I am back…
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Got 3 minutes? See what Blueprint’s all about
A little over two weeks ago the latest Blueprint update, the Spring ’09 release, was loosed upon the world. We took the opportunity of the launch, which included launches for our other products and services, to overhaul our web pages. In the specific case of Blueprint we created new pages for Overview, Features, Resources and…
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Production, Operations Mgt and BPM at Texas State
Dave Angelow, adjunct professor at Texas State University just finished teaching a semester long course in Production and Operations Management. The course, which focuses on the supply chain and value chain as well as some production methods, is a core requirement in the school of management. I talked with Dave to hear how the course…
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Call Center outsourcer uses Process Mapping to help it emerge from Chapter 11
PRC, based in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, manages 14 domestic call centers and a handful of centers offshore. In January of last year this 25-year-old company declared bankruptcy. Six months later, after a massive restructuring they emerged from Chapter 11. One of the efforts that helped in this restructuring and which continues today is an effort…
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Pics and Prose from Cloud Camp Austin ’09
This past Saturday, Cloud Camp Austin was held down on the UT campus. There was a very healthy turnout and a lot of great discussions were generated. Sequence of Events After opening salutations, camp got underway with a series of six five-minute lightening talks delivered by the camp’s gold sponsors. The Main Event From there,…
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Symantec, process improvement and Blueprint
Devin Rickard is a Senior Director of Business Process Improvement at Symantec, the company best known for its Norton line of security products. The team that Devin belongs to acts as internal process consultants at the company and they’ve adopted Lombardi Blueprint as the common process modeling tool for the group. What they found however…
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IBM leverages Web 2.0 for Knowledge Sharing
Next month I’ll be heading over to Houston to attend APQC’s knowledge management conference. One of the talks I’m interested in checking out will be given by Bryant Clevenger, the global leader for IBM GBS’s knowledge sharing strategy. On the KMedge blog, Bryant explains what they’ve been up to: At IBM, leveraging knowledge has always…
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Forrester Report on Blueprint now Available
A few weeks ago I blogged about the Forrester review of Blueprint that was published in early February. We recently purchased licensing rights to the report, “Vendor Snapshot: Lombardi Blueprint Bridges Gap Between Process Discovery And Execution” and it is now available here. Quotable Quotes Here are some of my favorite quotes from the report:…
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A Batch of Lombardi News
A bunch of cool Lombardi-related news bits came out last week. I’ve been a bit slow on the uptake so I thought I’d put them together into one entry. Lombardi Announces ’08 Results Last week we announced results for last year (our fiscal and calendar years are the same). It was our best year yet…
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Escape from Visio
Interestingly enough, the product that Lombardi Blueprint most often replaces for process mapping is not some high-end tool but rather Visio. So to let Visio users know that there was a better way to document their processes we launched a PPC campaign on Friday. The campaign takes the user to a landing page on our…
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Latest Rev of Blueprint (Rock ‘n’) Rolls out
The latest Blueprint update debuted this weekend. Being a cloud-based application we are able to push out a new Blueprint release every ~6 weeks and drive continuous improvement in the product. (In case you’re wondering about the picture to the left, each release comes with its own cheesy-band code name. As you can probably guess,…
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Forrester Posts Great Blueprint Review
At the end of last year, Blueprint Product Manager Dave Marquard and I had a call with Forrester analyst Clay Richardson to brief him on Lombardi Blueprint. The result of that call and a considerable amount of further research was a 6-page report that debuted last Friday — “Vendor Snapshot: Lombardi Blueprint Bridges Gap Between…
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Teaching Process
Yesterday I chatted with Dr. Joyce Statz who has been teaching a course at St. Edwards University in its school of management and business. Her course, “Multiple project and portfolio management” is offered as part of the Masters of Science in Project Management degree, and teaches how to manage multiple portfolios of project work in…
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West Bend Insurance uses BPM and Process Mapping to Create New Offerings and Streamline Operations
Over the the holiday break I chatted with Stacie Kenney, a Business Process Analyst with West Bend Mutual Insurance. West Bend is located in Wisconsin and has been around since 1894. They offer property/casualty insurance for businesses, homes, autos, and personal property through independent agencies in six states. Stacie and I discussed how she worked…
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Heading to California, Cloud Connect and Customers
Next week I’m making my way back to the Bay Area to attend the Cloud Connect un-conference that is being held Jan 20-22 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. The conference is being held in the unstructured un-conference style which I prefer. It allows more time for meeting people and talking about what…
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“Quiet Riot”: Last Blueprint release of ’08 now live
As the year 2008 draws to a close one more Lombardi Blueprint release has just just gone live. The login-screen has been cleaned up (except for the coffee stains) and “Twitter-fied.” The release, code-named “Quiet Riot” (in keeping with the official Blueprint code-naming schema) is characterized by a bunch of cool new features (you can…
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A Quick Peak at Blueprint thanks to Google
A couple of weeks ago Alex Moffat, chief engineer for Lombardi Blueprint, jetted out to Mountain View to record a video at Google headquarters. The video, which is in YouTube’s new 16:9 aspect ratio (the only way you want to watch Lawrence of Arabia or Blueprint demos), is part of a series of developer videos…