What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management Demystified
Episodes
Episode109 - Business Transformation: Meherban Faroogh
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Business transformation programs rarely fail because of technology. They fail because the organization is not aligned, not clear, and not ready for ch...
Ep. 108 - Quality Management: Regina Haar
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Is quality management the most thankless job in the organization? In many companies, QM teams want to be the Hermione Granger of the workplace—knowl...
Ep. 107 - Business Architecture Explained: Breanne Casteel
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes (always?) the problem that we see in organizations is not technology or structures or something else—it is the inability of people to “g...
Ep. 106 - KNIME & Data Analysis: Rosaria Silipo
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
One of the skills that I see an increasing demand for Business Analysts is data analysis. Especially when “new” tools like Process Mining shift th...
Ep. 105 - PEX and BPM Publication: MIchael Hill
19 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Ep. 104 - BPM Education: Daniel Matka
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ep. 103 - Open-Source Automation: Dan Funk
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There has been a lot of consolidation in the process/architecture space in the last few years, mostly driven by PE firms. But why is that so, and why ...
Ep. 102 - Data Governance: Angelika Rinck
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To implement AI (and processes) correctly, you need good data. But what does that mean? Well, firstly it means that you can define your data product a...
Ep. 101 - Lightweight EA: Eetu Niemi
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we welcome Finnish enterprise architect and author Eetu Niemi to explore what it means to make enterprise architecture (EA) “lightw...
Ep. 100 - A Special Occasion With Friends
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to a very special episode of What’s Your Baseline? — where we demystify enterprise architecture and business process management. In this m...
Ep. 99 1/2 - BPMN 3(?) - Part 2 Ideas for Improvements
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last week we took a deep(-er) look at what BPMN is today and pointed out the scope, difficulties, and misconceptions in the current specification. But...
Ep. 99 - BPMN 3(?) ... Pt. 1 Definition, History, and Complaints
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
BPMN—”the” standard for process modeling and also the foundation for process automation using BPMS tools—is currently in its version 2.02, and...
Ep. 98 - Decisions, Decisions ... with Tony Phillips
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There is a thing that I have not seen managed well in today's organizations: business rules. Typically, they are an “afterthought” in implementati...
Ep. 97 - Successful Process Mining Projects
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Process Mining—a technology and technique that Gartner just called “early mainstream” in one of their last reports.But many people still don’t...
Ep. 96 - Integrated Management System: Vassilik Spentzou
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are hundreds of years into thinking about how we do work (insert your philosopher of choice here: Smith, Marx, Plato, etc.), but I get the impressi...
Ep. 95 - Green BPM: Katharina Paulick
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ep. 94 - AI Hype: Maxwell Smith
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Season 9 Trailer
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 j...
Second Chance: APQC visualized - What's Your Baseline Shorts 10
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Second Chance: Simulation — What's Your Baseline Shorts 3
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Second Chance: What Makes A Good Dashboard - What's Your Baseline? Shorts 6
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 d...
Second Chance: EPC vs. BPMN - What's Your Baseline? Shorts 1
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 summ...
Ep. 93 - Solution Architecture
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ep. 92 - Emotional Intelligence: Steve Ponting
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Some folks go to work and are drained before they even turn on their computer, and they cannot figure out why that is when all the aspects of the job ...
Ep. 91 - Leading Effective Change: Neelesh Harmalker
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Have you noticed transformation fatigue in your organization? The feeling that you run faster and faster, and have to do more with less, while you don...
Ep. 90 - Legacy Modernization: Kastin Deal
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In many minds, legacy is “everything that works”. And even if that is not always true, many organizations look at their legacy systems and get a h...
Ep. 89 - Business Process Management Trends: Zbigniew Misiak
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Having the “Oracle of BPM” on the show? Yes, please.Even though our guest, Zbigniew Misiak, denies that, the role he is playing is an important on...
Ep. 88 - AI-Driven Task Mining: Tuhin Chakraborty
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We have spoken about Task Mining in the podcast before (see the “Additional information” section in the full show notes), but I haven't seen a lot...
Ep. 87 - Process Management Education: Matúš Mala
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
BPM is important because everything that we do in organizations are processes.So, why don't we agree on a common nomenclature, and educate people with...
Ep. 86 - Successful Architecture Implementation (Roland wrote a book)
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are trying something new here at What's Your Baseline? — J-M turns his focus on investigative journalism and starts asking the “hard questi...
Ep. 85 - OKRs: Ben Lamorte
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I was late to the game when I got exposed to the concept of OKRs a few years ago. Before that, I thought that it was just another term for setting obj...
Ep. 84 - Unleashed Enterprise Architecture: Leslie Robinet
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One misconception that many people have is that EA is just “that IT stuff”. Nothing is more false than that.If you *really* look at an enterprise,...
Ep. 83 - Process Community: Hanneke Loefs-Mos
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why are so many organizations out there that have not discovered BPM (and in extension “architecture”) as something that can help their business p...
Ep. 82 - Process Analysis
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to a new year and Season 8 of the What's Your Baseline Podcast, and we are starting with an episode that closes the loop with two other e...
Season 8 Trailer
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hey, this is Roland from the What's Your Baseline? Podcast and J.M. was also happy to be here. Yeah. We're looking forward to our next season, season ...
Ep. 81 - 2024 in Review
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The end is near … no, not what you are thinking. 2024 comes to a close in about two weeks, and we also end Season 7 of the podcast. And a lot has ha...
Ep. 80 - Execution-Aligned Strategy: Dan Marquez and Craig Overmars
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do you bridge the gaps between Strategy and Execution, and how do you evolve execution as strategy pivots? That are the questions that are the top...
Ep. 79 - GRC From a Process Perspective: Michael Schank
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
GRC — three letters that scare a lot of people. So much that they like to avoid thinking of risks and compliance at all.But don’t be afraid (quite...
Ep. 78 - EA Use Cases
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I know that this might be a cultural issue, but I don't see a lot of planning when it comes to projects anymore. Everything is "Agile" and I don't see...
Ep. 77 - Mergers & Acquisitions: Luca de Risi and Nick Reed
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There was a big splash in the Enterprise Architecture tool market a few weeks ago - BizzDesign announced that they will merge with Mega and an unnamed...
Ep. 76 - BPM/EA Misconceptions: Caspar Jans & Russell Gomersall
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Oh, why do I need a special EA/BPM tool? I am managing my apps in a spreadsheet just fine. That is one of the misconceptions that I have heard over th...
Ep. 75 - Business Architecture For A New Product: Mike DeCamp
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Do you need Business Architects when creating a new product? Isn't that a bit redundant when you have highly-paid Product Managers already? Or is ther...
Ep. 74 - Process Mining Readiness: Olaf Geyer
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A lot of folks who are beginning with Process Mining see this as a technical or academic exercise and just want to know “how things works”.But wha...
Ep. 73 - Leading High-Performance Architecture Teams: Amy Levine
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Some organizations seem to perform better, create results faster, and the people in those organizations seem to have fun on top if this? But how can t...
Season 7 Trailer
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hey J-M, what do think when you hear the word “seven”? Well, maybe the seven wonders of the world? Seven rings? Seven deadly sins? My favourite so...
Ep. 72 - The Retirement Challenge: Peggy McCann
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Some organizations are like a ticking time bomb when it comes to their processes and (IT) architecture."The old guard" is about to leave the...
Ep. 71 - Business Architecture Implementation - A User Story: Breanne Casteel
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do I get started? What is the first thing that I look at? Who will be my allies? What do I need to put in place? When you are tasked to build a br...
Ep. 70 - BPM Use Cases
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"I just bought your tool, now you have to tell me what I can do with it".No kidding, that is what one client to said to me once. Well, here ...
Ep. 69 - Building Community: Heather Wendt
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why do some applications have a large following and their revenues soar, while others are struggling with making a sale and are virtually unknown? Or ...
Ep. 68 - AI and BPM: Scott Armstrong
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
AI is *the* hot thing these days and you cannot pass any tool that does not have these two characters attached to it. That is also true for the BPM sp...
Ep. 67: Low-Code/No-Code Automation: Maximilian Neumaier
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The age old question: how do you make your processes "evergreen". Well, one way is to update your models on a regular basis (for example to ...
Ep. 66 - BPM Adoption Framework: Caspar Jans
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You have chosen to start your BPM journey and are now asking yourself the question "how *DO* I get started?". Well, one way is to look at a...
Ep. 65 - Data Modeling
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode closes out the mini series about data, and this time we talk about data modeling. Data models are some of the things that I have seen the...
Ep. 64 - Data Projects: Wiebke Apitzsch
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A lot of projects are just looking at processes and applications. One thing that typically does not get the limelight is the data that is needed to em...
Ep. 63 - Process Mining Data: Lotte Vugs
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As we all know, the majority of time in a process mining project is in some form or fashion related to data preparation and a significant lower share ...
Ep. 62 - BPM Implementation - A User Story: Martin Holling
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a first for the podcast - we are not talking about something from an external perspective, but speak with someone "in the trenche...
Ep. 61 - BPM and Process Lifecycle
03 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We had a couple of episodes where we discussed the Solution / Process Lifecycle, but this time we look at it from the perspective of Business Process ...
Season 6 Trailer
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Season 6 of the What's Your Baseline Podcast! We’ve got another fascinating season coming up, chock full of emerging trends and leadi...
Ep. 60 - Operational Intelligence: Shoeb Javed
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are wrapping up Season 5 of this podcast with an episode that I was looking forward to for quite some time now – we are talking about operation...
WYB Shorts 12 - Writing a book: Michael Schank
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You might have heard it in the last episode of the podcast (Ep. 59: Process Inventory), that our guest Michael Schank has written a book ;-) That trig...
Ep. 59 - Process Inventory: Michael Schank
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do you plan your transformation? By looking out of the window or asking your two best friends? Or would it be better if you had an overview of all...
WYB Shorts 11 - AI and Enablement: Ron Cohen, Peter Dern, Adam Egger
26 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Last week's episode of the podcast was a very good conversation about learning and enablement with Ron Cohen, Peter Dern, and Adam Egger, and we c...
Ep. 58 - Learning and Enablement: Ron Cohen, Peter Dern, Adam Egger
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do you set up learning and enablement for your architecture/process people? What has changed since the days of instructor-led training, and where ...
Ep. 57 - Process Mining Analysis
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You bought the tool and now the most critical question for your success comes up: “Now what?”. This leads to these questions: what you can do in t...
Ep. 56 - Center of Excellence (CoE): Gia Thi Nguyen
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Implementing a tool or standing up a new capability can be a complex task. Standing up a Center of Excellence as part of this implementation can help ...
Ep. 55 - Podcasting and Architecture: Josèphe Blondaut, Jakub Dvořák, Mirko Kloppenburg
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The way how we communicate and learn has changed over the last couple of years. One contributing factor is podcasting (or videocasting - we are no pur...
WYB Shorts 10 - APQC visualized: Moritz Berger
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ep. 54 - APQC: Moritz Berger
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We spoke about frameworks and reference content as accelerators in a previous episode (listen here), but one of those is pretty popular here in North ...
Ep. 53 - Subject-Oriented Process Management: Christoph Piller
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Process Management has a bad reputation of downsizing, replacing humans with bots, and all those other things that one relates to "bad capitalism...
Ep. 52 - Process Modeling: Kevin Tan
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes you have to mix up things a bit and come down to the level of practicality ... in this case we are looking at process-bility in this week...
Ep. 51 - Design-driven Transformation: James Toomey
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We had the topic of today's episode - transformation - a couple of times on this podcast, even though we did not call the episodes like that. But ...
Ep. 50 - Sustainability: Anthony Gilbreath
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Some topics seem to be a "stretch too far" for this podcast, and the topic for today's episode seems to be one of those: Sustainability....
Season 5 Trailer
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to the What's Your Baseline? Podcast. We are starting our Season 5 (who would have guessed that?) next Monday, July 31, with our 50th...
Ep. 49 - Customer Experience Management
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the last episode of our podcast in Season 4 (no worries, we'll be back for a Season 5). Today we are talking about Customer Experience ...
Ep. 48 - Enterprise Mining: Mark McGregor
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We have spoken about Process Mining and data-driven decision making quite a lot on this podcast. But does it stop with mining processes? I think the n...
Ep. 47 - Process Simulation: John Hill
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are at the next step of moving our organizations to the digital twin which will allow us to monitor "the plane" (our businesses) in real-...
Ep. 46 - Gamification and Performance Management
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the next episode of our podcast. Today we are talking about Gamification, a topic that we are a bit critical towards, but which seems to be...
Ep. 45 - Why do CIOs need Enterprise Architecture: Luca de Risi
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Enterprise Architects? Aren’t those the useless people who always say “no”? That is one of the perspectives we have heard about EAs in the past....
Ep. 44 - Process Notations (And Why They Are Not Important): Walter Bril
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When starting with process management one of the first questions is “what process notation shall I use”. In this episode of the What’s Your Base...
Ep. 43 - Process management for small organizations: Adi Klevit
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What are the needs of a small business compared to a larger one? Can they use the same approaches for process improvement and business process manage...
Ep. 42 - Structure Your Business Architecture
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I see a lot of separated efforts in organization, and model processes. Aren't these all connected activities that should be coordinated to create ...
Ep. 41 - Organizational Change Management: Jehane Adam
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you have listened to a couple of podcast episodes you know that we are true believers in that the biggest "problem" in any architecture, BPM, ...
Ep. 40 - Strategy to Execution: Dan Marquez
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Developing a strategy for your organization seems like a mystery for a lot of people (and some organizations make a large coin from keeping that ...
Ep. 39 - Lean and Process Mining: Sebastian Kotulla
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A lot of people think that the work is done when they have a process be visualized in their process mining tool and a nice dashboard is built. N...
Ep. 38 - Solution Engineering
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Season 4 of our podcast. Today we are talking about Solution Engineering, aka Presales, and what you can expect from your vendor's solution...
WYB Shorts 9 - A Holiday Special With Jeremy Voltz
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today we have a special What's Your Baseline Shorts episode for you, that has nothing to do with Enterprise Architecture or Business Process Managemen...
Ep. 37 - (I can't believe it is another) Ten things I've learned
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another episode of our podcast. In the final episode of the final season for this year, we are talking about another ten things we’ve lea...
Ep. 36 - Lean and Six Sigma: Ron Baker
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There was a lot of buzz around Lean and Six Sigma back in the 80s and 90s, but not today anymore. However, the practice is not dead and it is still re...
Ep. 35 - Facilitating process discovery and design sessions
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another episode of our podcast. Today we are talking about what to do before, during, and after process discovery and design sessions. In t...
Ep. 34 - Process Automation: Bernd Rücker
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Being the reasonable adult seems to be the parallel topic of this week's episode - even though the main topic is process automation. We were just so e...
WYB Shorts 8 - More process mining use cases
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A few weeks ago (in Episode 30) we spoke about how to select your process mining tool. And the conversation was so good, that we totally overran our p...
Ep. 33 - How to inspire people for process: Mirko Kloppenburg
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We talk (a lot) about technology and processes here on the podcast. But what about the human side of Business Process Management? Do we just forg...
Ep. 32 - Women in Process: Josèphe Blondaut and Gabriela Galic
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Even given the fact that we are living in the 21st century, it is interesting to see that the percentage of women who studied technology or worked in ...
Ep. 31 - Security Architecture: Rick Smith
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Updating the "plumbing" is not sexy. Looking at measures being put in place to avoid the worst case or deal with it when it happens is not fancy. Educ...
Ep. 30 - How to select a Process Mining tool
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another episode of our podcast. Today we are talking about how to choose a process mining tool, to close the loop to the "How to select an ...
Ep. 29 - Open Source: Avi Ghosh
05 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It is interesting to see how a "fringe idea" became mainstream within just a few years and everyone of us is using the outcome of it in our daily live...
Ep. 28 - Quality Engineering: Wings Liang
22 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A few months ago we had an initial look at how to manage and implement change in our conversation with Caspar Jans (in Episode 16) and we are continui...
Ep. 27 - BPM & EA Maturity
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Growing your practice is on every leader's mind. The way to do this is to have an eye on the definition and the development of the maturity of your or...
Ep. 26 - Communicating the value of architecture: Laurie Kelly
25 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of the biggest problems of architecture groups was (is?) that they are doing good work, but that will not be recognized by others. One of the caus...
Season 3 Trailer
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We're back! Welcome to Season 3 of the What’s Your Baseline podcast. A big thank you for more than 7500 downloads… so far! That’s awesome, and I...