Blagovest Kirilov

Blagovest Kirilov is a technology entrepreneur whose career spans executive leadership in the private sector, senior roles in public administration, and academic instruction at technical universities. He brings a rare combination of operational depth and institutional perspective to the challenge of process control — the challenge at the heart of this book.

As a Member of the Bulgarian Parliament, he engaged directly with the legislative and policy dimensions of digital transformation. As Deputy Minister for E-Governance, he led large-scale national initiatives to modernise public administration through technology — work that required translating policy intent into operational systems that actually delivered measurable results.

That experience — the gap between what is decided and what is achieved — became the foundation for the TRACES Framework. The framework did not emerge from theory. It emerged from the repeated observation that well-designed requirements fail not because of bad intent, but because of the absence of a structured, measurable path from requirement to sustained control.

As a lecturer at technical universities, Kirilov has developed and taught frameworks for process management, IT governance, and cybersecurity. The classroom provided a testing ground for the ideas in this book — a place where the framework could be challenged, refined, and validated against the experience of practitioners from diverse sectors.

The Process of Things is the synthesis of this work: a practical, rigorous framework for leaders who need processes that produce measurable, lasting results — not just at launch, but permanently.