Having lived in two cultures, it is so interesting to see how people cope with big problems. Climate change and sustainability are some of the biggest issues that we have to deal with in our lifetimes, and I see reactions from denial to aimless “do-gooder” activity.

But how do you improve this situation and solve the problem to get to more sustainable business practices? Well, process management (and especially the flavor of “Green BPM”) to the rescue.

This week we are speaking with Katharina Paulick, who is a creative, engaged, and dynamic professional in life sciences, lab automation, and machine learning. She works in a Green BPM consulting firm and is the right expert for our topic.

Katharina’s objective is to help create a sustainable Industry 4.0, and she stumbled (and then dove deep into) process management a few years ago.

In this episode of the podcast, we talk about:

• Katharina’s background
• The topic of “Green BPM” and why it is important from economical, ecological, etc., up to regulatory requirements
• The dimensions of Green BPM from economical, ecological, etc., up to regulatory requirements
• The limitations of regulatory approvals of processes and how they can limit process execution
• Why is there resistance against green practices?
• Katharina’s approach to process analysis and figuring out the needed changes
• The challenge (and benefits) of working as an external person without the detailed background of the process
• What are the recommendations when you want to implement your sustainable BPM program?

If you’d like to reach out to Katharina, simply connect with her on LinkedIn or on Mastodon (@katharinaxxx@social.tchncs.de)

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We are back with our first episode of the brand-new season 9 of the podcast—and we are starting right into the topic of these days: AI … well, the AI hype that is out there. And we are discussing what you can do to avoid falling into the trap of falling for that hype.

Our guest today is Maxwell Smith, who I had the pleasure of working with in a past life. He has years of experience in product management and product marketing in the BPM space with an IT background.

Max is a detail-oriented analytical thinker who enjoys empathizing with customers' problems and bringing solutions to market through products and positioning. The attention to detail is always contextualized with the larger vision of the product. The key success factor is his passion for tech and understanding of people's perception of it.

In this episode of the podcast, we talk about:

• Max' background
• A look at the different forms of AI (and their benefits and drawbacks)
• How to see through "AI-washing"
• Guiding questions to help folks to see if the vendor is really using AI
• Secondary questions/guidelines to consider if AI seems to be legit in a vendor's pitch
• Other concerns to look out for when implementing AI-supported technology

Max can be reached on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxwell-smith-1b612b83/.

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Soooooo … We're a grown-up adult podcast now, and we're approaching our season 9. (Oh, so you claim.) If season 8 was great, will season 9 just be fine? More than fine. The world might be in chaos, but we are a safe harbor. Come join us, full of good friends, good cheer, and excellence in BPM and EA.

And of course, even we are changing. So we resisted, for example, the AI topic for long enough. And I think it matured to a point where it's actually worth talking about. Get ready to hear our thoughts and best practices from our rogues gallery of guests. So join us as we continue our journey together, kicking off season 9 of What's Your Baseline? next Monday, July 28, 2025. And we'll see you… in the next one.

Today we have our last “What's Your Baseline?” short during our little summer break. And this time we're looking at something special.

This is a Shorts about APQC and we had a long episode with Moritz Berger about what that framework is and all of those things. Moritz put in the APQC reference framework into a tool called The Brain.

What I really like with that and the short is mostly a demonstration of what he did and we're talking about what to take in care of when using APQC. What he did was, the tool is not linear; it's not folders and models, etc., but it's connected nodes. And this is where I think the process modeling tools should go.

Anyway, enjoy the show.

(And here are the show notes from the initial release)

This is another What's Your Baseline? Shorts episode and we are following up with the guest from our last episode, Moritz Berger.

Moritz took the APQC Process Classification Framework and imported it into “The Brain” to visualize the breakdown and connectivity of processes to each other. Since this Shorts consists mostly of a demonstration, you might want to watch at it on Spotify, YouTube, or on our website.

And if you like to click through the Brain for yourself, please go here: ⁠⁠https://bra.in/3qzgr6⁠⁠.

Please reach out to us by either sending an email to ⁠⁠⁠hello@whatsyourbaseline.com⁠⁠⁠ or signing up for our newsletter and getting informed when we publish new episodes here: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.whatsyourbaseline.com/subscribe.⁠

This week we release another What's Your Baseline? Shorts for you just to lighten up our summer break a bit. The topic is why simulation should not be in your process mining tool. And I'm fully aware that this is a controversial thing because people might think, “Well, it's convenient to have it in your process mining tool to do some what-ifs and move on.”



But I honestly think it's a bad decision because you're limited to your process mining data, and, hand on heart, how many processes have you mined in your organization? So without further ado, have fun with this week's What's Your Baseline? Shorts. See you next week!



(And here are the show notes from the initial release)



The topic of this What’s Your Baseline Shorts podcast is process simulation and why you should not have this in your process mining tool but rather as part of your design platform.

We speak about these topics:

• Why simulation?
• What do you need for simulation?
• What are the outcomes of a simulation?
• What are the different types of simulation?



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Today, we are re-releasing a “What's Your Baseline?” short from about two and a half years ago.

And the topic of today is how to create good dashboards. And I do not think about how to do this mechanically with your tool of choice. I'm thinking about what is the thinking behind it. That might be because I'm currently writing on the chapter about dashboarding and storytelling in my upcoming second book, “Successful Processed Mining Projects”.

So without further ado, enjoy What's Your Baseline? Shorts 6: How to create a good dashboard.

(And here are the show notes from the initial release)

Everyone wants to consume and understand large amounts of data. But how do you plan, design, and implement a good dashboard?
In this What's Your Baseline Shorts, J-M and Roland walk you through the process and the considerations at each step, so that the next time you create a dashboard (for example as part of your Process Mining analysis) it will be stakeholder-oriented with a clear visual hierarchy that will make your users understand your message easily and quickly.

In this episode, we are talking about:

• Identify your stakeholders and information needs
• Define KPI and measures
• Create a solution design
• Build the dashboards
• Identify data stories
• Roll-out dashboards

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We are off for a few weeks, but instead of leaving you without your regular What's Your Baseline? fix , we decided to do something different this summer.

Since we started the podcast almost four years ago, we have grown quite a bit, and back in Season 2 we did a little "side show" and produced the "What's Your Baseline? Shorts" - 15 minutes, one topic, barely an edit.

And this week, we are re-releasing Shorts 1, in which we are discussing the age-old question of "EPC versus BPMN".

Enjoy!

(And here are the show notes from the initial release)

This is the first episode of the What's Your Baseline Shorts series. We are talking about the topic of process notations, especially if you should choose the BPMN or the EPC notation.

High-level topics include:

• What are EPC and BPMN?
• A bit of history
• Specialties of each notation, and difficulties that might arise
• Data exchange with BPMN
• External standards

Please reach out to us by either sending an email to ⁠hello@whatsyourbaseline.com⁠ or leaving us a voice message by clicking ⁠here⁠.

The full show notes, including graphics, further links, credits, and transcript, are available at ⁠whatsyourbaseline.com/shorts1⁠.

The world is changing faster than one might think, or at least it appears this way … and nobody seems to do solution architecture anymore.

And plenty of organizations seem to have given up on planning what they are doing and changing in their system landscape, organizations, processes, etc. But that is wrong. You need to describe the changes so that you can agree on things and everyone is on the same page (and understands the direction, goals, and measurements going forward).

In this episode of the podcast, we talk about:

• A quick review of Season 8, and what happens here at What’s Your Baseline?
• What is solution architecture?
• How does it fit into the solution lifecycle
• Benefits of having a solution architecture
• Where in the organization should solution architects be located?
• The network of solution architectures and how to manage those
• What do you need to do solution architecture in your organization (tools, approach)?
• Elements/steps when creating the solution architecture
• How do you implement this capability (waterfall, agile, devops)?

Please reach out to us by either sending an email to hello@whatsyourbaseline.com or sign up for our newsletter and get informed when we publish new episodes here: https://www.whatsyourbaseline.com/subscribe/.