Kiran K. Garimella

Foreword by Dr. Vint-Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the Internet and recipient of the ACM Turing Award. This book is a wake-up call to all game changers, alerting them to the impending collision of the two largest foundational technologies for the coming decades: artificial intelligence and blockchain. AI, rightly engineered and deployed, has the potential to become humanity's best and most indefatigable servant, freeing up humans from wage slavery. Blockchain, responsibly governed and… Show more

Foreword by Dr. Vint-Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the Internet and recipient of the ACM Turing Award. This book is a wake-up call to all game changers, alerting them to the impending collision of the two largest foundational technologies for the coming decades: artificial intelligence and blockchain. AI, rightly engineered and deployed, has the potential to become humanity's best and most indefatigable servant, freeing up humans from wage slavery. Blockchain, responsibly governed and deployed, has the potential to truly democratize society in spirit and not just in name, by eliminating friction in the world's transactions and eliminating usurious middlemen, and by facilitating a more equitably distributed internet of value.

The most efficient and effective ways for this to happen is through a partnership between these two powerful technologies, where blockchain delivers trusted and immutable information for AI, and AI delivers cognition and automation to business processes.

None of this will happen automatically, since the law of social entropy is as inexorable as the law of physical entropy, leading to chaos by default. It is up to the game changers to understand, tame, engineer, and deploy these two technologies as an integrated whole for both commercial value and for social benefit. Show less

(Also available in German, French, Spanish, and Japanese.)

Business Process Management Basics For Dummies will help you understand what BPM is really all about. Whether you are a business manager or an Information Technology practitioner, this book will provide valuable information about what BPM can do for you—and how to apply it.

A business novel that uses fictional vignettes to describe BPM and its relationship to SOA, Six Sigma, and Lean. The treatment is completely business-oriented (i.e., non-technical), as well as technology-neutral (i.e., vendor-agnostic).

The book also covers topics such as risk management, innovation, process-centric thinking, and process maturity.

Since 2007, the book has been used as a supplemental text book at the following universities for MBA, EMBA, and undergraduate programs:… Show more

A business novel that uses fictional vignettes to describe BPM and its relationship to SOA, Six Sigma, and Lean. The treatment is completely business-oriented (i.e., non-technical), as well as technology-neutral (i.e., vendor-agnostic).

The book also covers topics such as risk management, innovation, process-centric thinking, and process maturity.

Since 2007, the book has been used as a supplemental text book at the following universities for MBA, EMBA, and undergraduate programs: University of Florida's Warrington College of Business Adminstration for their professional MBA courses; University of Georgia's Terry School of Business; University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Steven's Institute of Technology; Arizona State University; University of Sydney.

Publisher's Blurb: This gripping, fast-paced book is changing how America does business in the twenty-first century. Not since Eliyahu Goldratt's 1984 breakaway book, The Goal (2 million in print), has such an intriguing business message been presented at the intersection of business and entertainment. This book is an engaging novelette and, at the same time, a thought-provoking business book about how to harness the power of process management to unleash new sources of competitive advantage.

Kiran Garimella separates the hype from the reality of process management, arguing for the new mindset and corporate culture necessary to sustain a true process-oriented organization. Process management can enable innovation, address compliance, increase controllership, manage risk, improve customer-centricity, and ensure agility. Dr. Garimella reinforces his message through fictional situations and engaging dialog. He turns the inevitable alphabet soup of business and technology terms into a gourmet's delight with true business substance. Show less