Tag: blueprint
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Turning 100 years of “tribal knowledge” into documented processes
A while back I posted a podcast with Steve Burge of Tillamook where he talked about how Tillamook, a cooperative, made up of over 150 dairies, took on a process mapping effort to turn 100 years of “tribal knowledge” into documented processes. Since the story was a great example of tackling a process documentation effort…
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Morphis: Accidental Process Consultants
Morphis is a company that provides currency supply chain management software and counts among its customers the U.S. Federal reserve as well as central banks, ATMs and armored car companies around the world. Process mapping was the furthest thing from their minds when they started in business but they quickly found out that if they…
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The Tillamook Podcast — 99 yr old Dairy Cooperative embraces Process Mapping
If you’re not familiar with the name, Tillamook is a 99 year-old cooperative made up of over 150 dairies that produces high-end dairy products. The award-winning cooperative, officially named the Tillamook County Creamery Association, is located up in the north west corner of Oregon. Until recently, processes were passed down from artisan to artisan in…
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“Poison:” Blueprint October ’08 is live
As product manager Dave Marquard announced this weekend, the October release of Blueprint is now out. In keeping with the project naming schema of an alphabetical list of “bands-from-the-70’s-and-80’s-that-are-at-least-somewhat-cheesy” we are up to “P” and “Poison” (check-out the whole list here). Poison is the 11th public Blueprint release and the 16th overall (releases usually come…
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Introducing, Process Mapping 101 – An online course
Yesterday we launched Lombardi’s first on-demand training course, Process Mapping 101. Appropriately, it features our on-demand product, Blueprint. Rather than putting together a how-to-use-Blueprint course, we wanted to go broader and create a how-to-get-started with Process Mapping. What we’ve been hearing from a lot of our customers is that, while the Blueprint product is fairly…
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Pics and Notes from Rackspace’s Cloud Event
Yesterday a little before noon I jumped in my car and headed to UT to attend the Rackspace Cloud Event. It was held on campus in the same building that “hosts” (bad pun intended) the local NPR station as well as the studio that Austin City Limits is filmed in. It was this studio that…
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Blueprint: Built of Java thanks to Google Web Toolkit
The great thing about cloud-based applications is that it doesn’t matter what they’re written in or how they’re constructed, all that matters is that they do what you need them to. What’s the back-end of your phone system written in? Odds are you don’t know and don’t care. That being said, there are group of…
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Watch Blueprint in Action
If a pictures is worth a 1,000 words, how many words is a 1 minute and 39 second-you tube video worth? See for yourself. Below is a clip that introduces the viewer to Lombardi Blueprint, the cloud-based process modeling solution (everything you see is taking place within a browser) that I’m working on. Initial Project…
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Google out, Zoho in — to the tune of 400,000 desktops at GE
Who doesn’t love a David and Goliath story? Looks like General Electric has chosen India-based Zoho over Google to supply its cloud-based desktop suite on 400,000 desktops. Zoho is a 600 person company that has never taken venture funding and currently generates $40 million a year. According to Daya Baran’s blog “A GE spokesperson who…