Paul Harmon (management author)

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Paul Harmon (born 1942) is an American management consultant, author and analyst, known for his work in the field of Expert systems in the 1980s, [1] [2] and more recently on Business process management (BPM). [3] [4]

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Biography

Harmon got his HS degree from Shortridge High School in 1960, and received a BA in biology from Earlham College in 1965. In 1968-69 he studied Psychology and Education at the Columbia University in the City of New York.

He began his career working for Geary Rummler at Praxis Corp. in New York City. Throughout the Seventies he owned his own consulting company and did major process redesign projects with clients like Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Security Pacific, Prudential, and Citibank.

In the Eighties and Nineties Harmon was a senior consultant and head of Cutter Consortium's Distributed Architecture practice. From 1985 to 2000 he wrote Cutter newsletters, including expert systems strategies, CASE strategies, and component development strategies.

Currently Harmon is the Executive Editor of www.BPTrends.com—a monthly webizine that publishes articles and reports on Business Process topics. (BPTrends was founded in 2003 by Celia Wolf and Paul Harmon) He serves as the senior BPM market analyst at BPTrends. He is also the Senior Methodologist of BPTrends Associates a consulting group that offers training and consulting services, based on the BPTrends BPM Methodology. Harmon is also the author of Business Process Change (3rd Ed) a popular business guide and school textbook for those interested in BPM. [5]

Harmon recently rejoined Cutter Consortium as a Senior Consultant. He writes reports on current developments in Cognitive Computing and consults with Cutter Clients on integrating cognitive techniques into their existing business processes.

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Publications

Paul Harmon published several books and articles. A selection:

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References

  1. ↑ Luger, George F., and William A. Stubblefield. Artificial intelligence and the design of expert systems. Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Co., Inc., 1990.
  2. ↑ Jackson, Cynthia M., Simeon Chow, and Robert A. Leitch. "Toward an understanding of the behavioral intention to use an information system." Decision sciences 28.2 (1997): 357-389.
  3. ↑ zur Muehlen, Michael, and Michael Rosemann. "Integrating risks in business process models." Proceedings of the 2005 Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2005), Manly, Sydney, Australia. 2005.
  4. ↑ Rosemann, Michael, Jan Recker, and Christian Flender. "Contextualisation of business processes." International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management 3.1 (2008): 47-60.
  5. ↑ Paul Harmon, and Celia Wolf(2009). Paul Harmon Archived 2008-12-23 at the Wayback Machine at bptrends.com
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