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In his JargonSpy column this week Dan Woods asks the question: "What sort of processes should be automated using BPM?" The column describes business process modeling and tells how both businesspeople and technologists become infatuated with the technique when they first learn how to use it. More »

Barton George, Sr. Director, Business Development at Lombardi Software, has mentioned this week's JargonSpy column on both the Lombardi Process People blog and his own personal blog. More »

In this week's JargonSpy column, Dan Woods writes about how business processes are seen as being "handed down from on high," and argues that instead "business processes are like wild animals," and that they should be stalked, crept up on, and then captured. More »

Dan Woods illustrates how CIOs lost control in his latest JargonSpy column this week. More »

Dan Woods makes the argument that "humble is the new lazy" in his JargonSpy column this week. That notion might sound strange to JargonSpy readers, but after reading Woods' argument, they'll probably be convinced.

Woods describes laziness as a virtue that causes smart programmers to think hard about design rather than just coding in a haphazard fashion that both takes longer and is less elegant. More »

In this week's JargonSpy column, Dan Woods writes about tacit interactions, which are "processes that can't be automated in a step-by-step manner." Woods lists such examples of tacit interactions as negotiating a deal, managing staff, and selling a product. More »

Joe McKendrick of ZDNet posted a favorable reaction to Dan Woods' November 11 JargonSpy column. As McKendrick puts it, "Dan Woods delivers an interesting revelation: with SOA, IT departments end up taking on a lot of the work formerly handled by software vendors."

Yet more evidence of the impact the JargonSpy is having.

Wayne Snell, Senior Director Marketing for Lombardi Software, has written a post for Lombardi's Process People blog that draws attention to Dan Woods' JargonSpy columns on Forbes.com. More »

As we mentioned before, in last week's JargonSpy column, Dan Woods mentioned the idea of "collaboration fright," and encouraged readers to go ahead and submit their ideas for the world to see. More »

In an article titled Essential reading, books every CIO should have, the website CIO lists the Mesh Collaboration book as an invaluable resource for today's CIOs. Yet another testament to the impact the book is having.