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What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management Demystified

What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management Demystified

Roland Woldt / J-M Erlendson 141 episodes Latest Jun 8, 2026

This show demystifies Enterprise Architecture and Business Process Management, offering insights for both newcomers and experienced practitioners. It explores how organizations can optimize their EA/BPM practices to maximize value. The podcast provides practical advice and different perspectives on these disciplines. Listeners can learn more and read related articles on the show's website.

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Ep. 115 - Startups: Vidar Hokstad Jun 8, 2026 00:52:45 When should you start with process and architecture in a startup?That was the question that we've asked ourselves (as if there is a real-life example currently happening :-) and then we thought, “Why not ask someone who is living in this space?”Vidar co-founded his first tech startup at 19 because he didn't know enough to know how hard it would be. 30 years on, he has gone mostly from star
Ep. 114: BPM Operating System May 25, 2026 01:03:02 Roland and J-M go solo to pull back the curtain on something that's been years in the making: BPM OS, a purpose-built, local-first tool stack designed to help small, talented process and architecture teams stand up a real BPM practice — without the vendor dependency, IT overhead, or 12-month procurement nightmare.In this episode of the podcast we talk about: Most BPM programs fail not because
Ep. 113 - Customer Success Excellence: Chad Stephen May 11, 2026 01:01:09 Once you've sold the licenses you are done. Right? Well, not so fast, young Jedi. While the salesperson happily turns around and goes hunting elsewhere, the customer has high expectations about the treatment they get after the sale.Even today I see organizations who treat Customer Success teams as an afterthought and then wonder why they see churn or nastygrams from their customers. But it doe
Ep. 112 - Why Compliance Is Your Friend: Christof Layher Apr 27, 2026 00:54:20 Everyone says they hate compliance. But what they actually hate is being told the truth at the worst possible moment.The problem is not the regulation. It is the moment you involve the people who understand it. Too late, under pressure, with no room to course-correct.65 to 95% of digitization projects fail. The answer is not to run them faster. It is to slow down enough to get them right — and tha
Ep. 111 - Successful Presales: Max Lüpertz Apr 13, 2026 01:00:44 “Just go and show our tool in the best way possible.”I have heard this sentence wayyyy too often coming from a salesperson, and the solution engineer on the receiving end just died a little bit inside.Of course you want to make a good impression when showing your tools to your customer, but more importantly, you want to start building a relationship and engage with them. For that you have to get t
What's Your Baseline? in 2026 Mar 30, 2026 01:10:44 We teased it over the last couple of weeks when Roland posted about how to build products and when we started things like our SubstackNow is the time to give you a look behind the scenes at how your favorite podcast turns the page from a hobby to a real business. And then there is also another welcoming change coming to you … that I guess most of you have missed over the last couple of episodes.In
Episode109 - Business Transformation: Meherban Faroogh Mar 16, 2026 00:43:06 Business transformation programs rarely fail because of technology. They fail because the organization is not aligned, not clear, and not ready for change.There is an art, science, and emotional intelligence to leading successful business transformations, and our guest, Meherban Faroogh, has been helping clients for decades now to navigate this maze of major changes for organizations.He founded PP
Ep. 108 - Quality Management: Regina Haar Mar 2, 2026 00:57:27 Is quality management the most thankless job in the organization? In many companies, QM teams want to be the Hermione Granger of the workplace—knowledgeable, prepared, and doing the right thing—but end up perceived as Argus Filch, the grumpy caretaker enforcing rules nobody asked for.This week's guest, Regina Haar, works at Q.Wiki (Modell Aachen), where she helps quality managers move from bei
Ep. 107 - Business Architecture Explained: Breanne Casteel Feb 16, 2026 00:59:22 Sometimes (always?) the problem that we see in organizations is not technology or structures or something else—it is the inability of people to “get on the same page.”One way to fix this is to have people dedicated to Business Architecture who understand “how things are wired up” and where the value is created. And who also tries to solve the problem that is shown above … what do you mean with wha
Ep. 106 - KNIME & Data Analysis: Rosaria Silipo Feb 2, 2026 01:00:59 One of the skills that I see an increasing demand for Business Analysts is data analysis. Especially when “new” tools like Process Mining shift the landscape towards data-driven analysis.And besides the need to learn these new skills, I also see multiple tools that are very pricey and might be cost prohibitive for some organizations, so they fall back to the universal Swiss knife in business… Exce
Ep. 105 - PEX and BPM Publication: MIchael Hill Jan 19, 2026 00:59:57 Happy New Year!We are back from our regular break, in which we really did not do a lot for the podcast but were working on other things that you will discover throughout 2026. We are super excited about our plans, but it is not the time to talk about it … as we say in Germany, “lay the egg first, and then cackle.”However, for our first episode of Season 10 (who would have guessed that?), we have a
Ep. 104 - BPM Education: Daniel Matka Dec 22, 2025 00:56:13 We had episodes about BPM education on the show before, but this time we speak with someone who is from a different generation than your regular hosts.And our guest Daniel Matka is building a “Process Academy” to bring process management knowledge to the next generation. And while doing this, he's building modern ways of structuring content that will speak to this audience.Daniel was a product

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