Paul Harmon (born 1942) is an American

management consultant Management consulting is the practice of providing consulting services to organizations to improve their performance or in any way to assist in achieving organizational objectives. Organizations may draw upon the services of management consultants ...

, author and analyst, known for his work in the field of

Expert systems In artificial intelligence, an expert system is a computer system emulating the decision-making ability of a human expert. Expert systems are designed to solve complex problems by reasoning through bodies of knowledge, represented mainly as if� ...

in the 1980s, and more recently on

Business process management Business process management (BPM) is the discipline in which people use various methods to discover, model, analyze, measure, improve, optimize, and automate business processes. Any combination of methods used to manage a company's business p ...

(BPM).Rosemann, Michael, Jan Recker, and Christian Flender. "Contextualisation of business processes." ''International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management'' 3.1 (2008): 47-60.

Biography

Harmon got his HS degree from

Shortridge High School Shortridge High School is a public high school located in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Shortridge is the home of the International Baccalaureate and arts and humanities programs of the Indianapolis Public Schools district.(IPS). Originall ...

in 1960, and received a BA in biology from

Earlham College Earlham College is a private liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana. The college was established in 1847 by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and has a strong focus on Quaker values such as integrity, a commitment to peace and social ...

in 1965. In 1968-69 he studied

Psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries between ...

and

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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 Cutter Consortium, founded by Karen Fine Coburn in 1986, is an information technology research company based in Arlington, Massachusetts. History Cutter Information Corp. was founded by Karen Fine Coburn in 1986. In 1990, Cutter purchased the righ ...

'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.Paul Harmon, and Celia Wolf(2009)
Paul Harmon
at bptrends.com 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.

Publications

Paul Harmon published several books and articles. A selection: * 1972. ''Accounting essentials''. With Neal Margolis in consultation with Joseph Peter Simini. * 1973. ''Climbing Routes on Yosemite's Walls. * 1985. ''Expert systems : artificial intelligence in business ''. With David King. * 1988. ''Expert systems : tools and applications''. With William Morrissey. * 1990. ''Creating expert systems for business and industry ''. With Brian Sawyer. * 1990. ''ObjectVision : a graphical programming tool for object-oriented applications''. With Brian Sawyer. * 1991. ''ObjectCraft : a graphical programming tool for object-oriented applications''. With Brian Sawyer. * 1993. ''Objects in action : commercial applications of object-oriented technologies''. With David A. Taylor and the assistance of William Morrissey * 1993. ''Intelligent software systems development : an IS manager's guide''. With Curtis Hall. * 1996. ''Object technology casebook : lessons from award-winning business applications''. With William Morrissey. * 1998. ''Understanding UML : the developer's guide : with a Web-based application in Java''. With Mark Watson. * 1999. ''UML for Visual Basic 6.0 developers : using Visual Modeler and Rational Rose 98''. With Brian Sawyer. * 2001. ''Developing E-business systems & architectures : a manager's guide''. With

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and Michael Guttman. * 2003. ''Business Process Change: A Manager's Guide to Improving, Redesigning, and Automating Processes''. * 2008. ''Business Process Change: A Guide for Business Managers and BPM and Six Sigma Professioinals''. * 2014. ''Business Process Change, Third Edition: A Business Process Management Guide for Managers and Process Professionals ''. * 2019. ''Business Process Change, Fourth Edition: A Business Process Management Guide for Managers and Process Professioinals''.

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Paul Harmon
at bptrends.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Harmon, Paul 1942 births Living people American business theorists American management consultants American business writers Earlham College alumni Teachers College, Columbia University alumni American male non-fiction writers Shortridge High School alumni

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