Steve Barnes

I'm a business process improvement, document workflow and process automation expert.

The Process Expert to be an expert trainer for TIBAI

I am pleased to announce I have been invited by Mohammad Abu-Hammour to be an expert trainer for the TIBAI – The International Business Agility Institute, presenting their Agile Processes and Agile Technology perspectives, which compliment other perspectives such as Agile Finance and Agile Organisation. A long time colleague of mine, Dr. Irena Yashin-Shaw teaches …

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Is This Delivering Value?

It’s always good to look back after running training and do a bit of a ‘post-delivery review’. Feedback sheets are important of course, but many people rush filling them in. I find the best feedback is conversations with individuals. I ask during the course questions like: “Is this delivering for you?””Is this addressing your problems?””Are …

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Framework Dynamics

The Process Expert’s Cycle of Framework Development The Process Expert’s perception of the Cycle of Framework Development is that it goes from concept through to a possibly self-inflicted death!. conceptdevelopmentInitial AdoptionBringing with it initial buy-inIdeas!and with the ideas come people and therefore rapid enhancementClick Heremass adoptionand when mass adoption occurs, clarity and focus get harder …

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Process Understanding Promotes Task Efficiency

Process Understanding Promotes Task Efficiency! A large part of my background is business process modelling. I have consulted and trained organisations internationally, commented on the first BPMN standard, have sat on an expert panel at QUT in Brisbane, Australia and was featured recently in a Process Pioneers podcast.  I use BPMN to not only define …

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Improving Operational Excellence is an interesting task

Walking into a business and analysing it for Operational Excellence is always an interesting task! Improving your operations should not compromise product leadership, customer service or customer intimacy.  Major shortfalls in operations are normally visible to a seasoned practitioner in the first few weeks of a consulting assignment. The rest of the DISCOVERY phase is …

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Business Process design using BPMN

Are you choosing a BPM platform – here are some players!

There are a few top tier corporate tools that are very pricey and come with all sorts of benefits; then there’s a middle tier coming about that has capabilities around integration, throw and catch events; then the lowest is a partial BPMN implementation that is using BPMN as a booster to get attention. It’s basically …

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