The words agile and agility crop-up more and more frequently in the business and technology press. Agile delivery techniques combined with BPM enable you to obtain working solutions faster, and these solutions are more closely aligned with business priorities. Through an iterative approach you get value delivered early and often. Singularity is a big believer in the power of combining agile techniques with the disciplines and technology of BPM. We’ve developed a specific methodology, called ASAP, that combines the best elements of agile techniques along with some BPM-specific elements, and to this we’ve added competitive ‘hot housing’ to drive out new and innovative approaches to business problems. At the recent Gartner BPM summit in London we gave a presentation on agility and BPM, in which we provided an introduction to the ‘Agile’ movement and its relevance to Business Process Management – to learn more, please click here.

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European financial markets seem to be getting flattened, in more ways than one. For a long time most people thought the whole world was flat. Then 2,500 years ago Pythagoras proved that the world is spherical. Rediscovering flatness of a kind, 44 years ago Marshall McLuhan introduced the term “global village”, recognising that technology was unlocking the doors between people and nations. More recently, Thomas Friedman declared 4 years ago that “The World is Flat” in his best-selling book of that name, quoting one of the drivers and benefactors of this new “flat” earth, Infosys CEO Nandan Nilekani.

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