Nathaniel Palmer

An expert on business process management

Rated as the #1 Most Influential Thought Leader in Business Process Management (BPM) by independent research, Nathaniel is recognized as one of the early originators of BPM, and has led the design for some of the industry’s largest-scale and most complex projects involving investments of $200 Million or more. He is the Editor-in-Chief of BPM.com, Executive Director of the Workflow Management Coalition, and VP and CTO of BPM, Inc. Previously he had been the BPM Practice Director of SRA International, and prior to that Director, Business Consulting for Perot Systems Corp., as well as spending over a decade with Delphi Group serving as an Executive VP and CTO. His insights into the future of technology and its role in digital enterprise will provide you with a unique and powerful perspective on the opportunities to come.

Speaking and consulting topics

Digital Disruption

A powerful keynote on how emerging tech is changing business and creating unprecedented new opportunities – and what you need to do to be a disruptor rather than disrupted.  Beyond the hype, this session will clearly articulate how the biggest trend of this decade and the next is fundamentally changing how we connect with customer, bring products to market, manage operations, and run our lives.

Unlocking the power of the Internet of Things (IoT)

Beyond the hype, how the biggest trend of this decade and the next is fundamentally changing how we connect with customer, bring products to market, manage operations, and run our lives.

Reinventing healthcare: threats and opportunities

From the ACA to IoT, healthcare is undergoing the greatest disruption faced since the introduction of managed care; technology-enable innovations and borrowed best practices are paving the way for not only far greater quality of care but a host new business models and industry players.

Publications

By reading this book, you’ll understand how successful organizations keep up with business change, and how an adaptive, intelligent enterprise is able to navigate change. The co-authors of this important book describe various aspects and approaches with regard to impact and opportunity. Intelligent business process management is the next generation of enterprise BPM, leveraging recent technological advances to attain a degree of operational responsiveness not possible with yesterday’s business process platform.