The new year arrived. What Do I expect for the new year?
I expect that many of us will have to re-evaluate the things we are doing and how we are doing them. Cost pressure has arrived on a grand scale and will not be released in the coming year. We have to find more effective ways of doing our work or the work of our company. Therefore this will increase the pressure to evaluate and utilize cloud solutions. We can’t affort to ignore the economies of scale.
Furthermore many things will change. Re-organizations will take place. Be it company departments, that are affected, be it the personal job description, be it the project(s) that each of us is part in. Thus, standard processes need to change. They need to be adapted to new situations. This is the time when BPM as it is known today will be questioned. The lifecycle of a typical BPM project is much too long to react to unforeseen changes, to necessary adaptations and to ad hoc processes. Included in this is the development cycle, if the BPM projects goal is a system specification for an implementation project.
Instead, what we will be looking for are effective tools to manage processes, that have not been foreseen, or at least deviations from known processes. Still we want to monitor what we are doing, how the process progresses, to manage collaboration and to monitor the collaboration. We need the control over these processes, to stay cool in all the turmoil, and still consequently pursue our goals or the goals that have been entrusted to us. Thus, a new breed of software will arise that goes beyond BPM. I expect at the end of the year we will have prototypes and first successful pilot projects for that new breed of software. This will be the foundation for the following three to five years for that new breed of software to be established.
That is what I expect.