The challenge: too many new tools I’d like to propose a “new” way to evaluate new tools. I am sure most of you reading this are approached on a pretty regular basis with marketing blasts for new products, new tools, that will make your life or business better. It’s an ocean of incoming ideas and offers…

I’ve been “all in” on process since about 2003. In 2007 I co-founded BP3 as an expression of that focus on process and process technologies. Our thesis was simple: if you want to change your business, you need to change your processes if you want to change your processes, you…

Austin’s journey to high-tech haven really began in earnest with winning the site selection for MCC and SEMATECH. And progress continued with the investments of IBM, Dell, Motorola, AMD, Freescale (now NXP), and even upstarts like Trilogy who moved here in the 90’s. Investments from firms like Austin Ventures kept…

The Promise of Big Data (like Big Oil) Ever since the tools for managing and understanding big data have improved to a certain level of maturity, all of the emphasis in corporate IT departments and strategy sessions seems to have been to “collect all the data” — and to put it somewhere — anywhere — but preferably into…

Flexible tools support the right abstractions Once you realize the power of representing your business as a set of processes, you’ll want to find software to represent those processes — and run them. And there’s good news! Such software exists, and it is quite good. It is natural to want…

BP3 is celebrating our 15th anniversary this month. A few thoughts reflecting on what it has meant for me. Sharing Someone Else’s Dream Twice I’ve been invited to join with someone else’s dream and make it my own. When Erin Defosse invited me to become the Board Chair for the Magellan International School, he…

After a couple of years, seemingly, of not getting out as much, a return to downtown Austin includes quite a few surprises. The skyline has, quite simply, gotten bigger and taller. A year ago, the ABJ published a report on 43+ towers going up in Austin. Of the 37 projects…

The purpose of this post is to review 5 steps to becoming a great services partner to software vendors. The intended audience is anyone building a services business from the ground up, or looking to improve one that’s already up and running. Why Partner? Why not go Direct every time? Before we jump into the 5 step plan…

When the M1 MacBook was introduced into the MacBook Air, it was a revelation. But, it was a new platform, new chipset, new drivers, and an 8MB limit on RAM (or was it 16?). …