Transformation+Innovation has teamed with BPM Focus to deliver BPM Focus Learning Framework, comprehensive set of courseware designed to cater for differing levels of need and experience. The Learning Framework has been developed in conjunction with leading academics with the aim of producing an academically certifiable range of courseware, linking back to university standard educational units.
Ensuring BPM Project Success
March 22-23, San Francisco, CA
This intensive two-day program to helps organizations ensure the success BPM projects.
Day 1 focuses on achieving success in BPM projects. Topics covered include securing organizational buy-in, setting up, planning and managing a BPM initiative within the organization.
Day 2 is designed to help those involved in managing the ongoing delivery of BPM projects. Exploring the implications for roll-out across the business, it focuses on supporting the iterative nature of BPM projects.
Participants receive an actionable plan, a set of tools and a framework within which to apply them, and a range of best practices to observe and pitfalls to avoid on the journey.
About the Instructor
Derek Miers is CEO of BPM Focus, and one of the leading experts on BPM. Over the last two decades Derek has carried out a wide range of consulting roles in BPM and process modeling techniques, and undertaking detailed technology selection assessments and project risk assessment studies. Other engagements have involved the provision of strategic consulting advice—from facilitating board-level conversations to supporting BPM project initiatives. Clients have included many of the world's largest and best-known firms in financial services, pharma, telecomm, and government.
Detailed Agenda
Day 1
- Introductions
- Process Perspectives
High level introduction to some of the key principles of successful BPM projects - BPMS Design Principles
A quick introduction to the BPMS and
where it adds value
Relationship with SOA and Business Performance - Assessing Organizational Readiness
Moving up the ladder of Business Process Maturity - BPM Project Methodology
Role & Formation of Steering Group - A Methodology for Agreeing Governance
An extensible methodology for selecting
an the initial BPM Project
Developing the Business Case for a BPM Project
Selling BPM to Executive Management
BPM Team Formation – Roles & Responsibilities
Understanding Processes - Overview of Process Modeling Techniques
Avoiding Analysis Paralysis
Identifying Improvement Opportunities
Overview of improvement domains and related identification techniques
Designing Appropriate Process Architectures
Balancing efficiency with adaptability and innovation - BPMS Development Issues
Understanding the core components of a BPMS
and how to work with them
An iterative development approach to implementation
Building in appropriate monitoring and
optimization practices
Managing the organizational change
Day 2 - Developing A Repeatable BPM Implementation Methodology
- Establishing the BPM Center of Excellence/Project Office
Evaluate & Select Methodologies & Tools
Developing a Corporate Process Architecture
Global v Local Guidelines
Rationalize the Metrics
Train & Develop Specialists - The Role of IT
Assessing BPM Tools – Suites and Modeling
How to think about them, their role, etc.
A short methodology for evaluating BPMS suites ensuring they are relevant to your needs
Develop Library of Integration Components
Issues associated with leveraging existing IT investments
Considering BPM Standards - there are so many to choose from, which ones are relevant and why - Summary
Next Steps Development
Enterprise Architecture
May 21, Washington, D.C.
Taught by Edward G. Lewis, an international consultant and educator, whose career in strategic management and information technology spans 40 years. His clients include PEMEX, Microsoft, Lattelekom, Ericsson, INESC, Factor de Equilibrio, Banco Portugal, Steelcase, Telecom Italia, US WEST, BDM, Mobil Oil, Lockheed Martin, USDA, Texas Guaranteed, and Quest Diagnostics. In 1989 he was appointed by then President George H. W. Bush to be Assistant Secretary for Information Resource Management, becoming the very first Chief Information Officer in the U.S. Federal Government.
The importance of an organization’s Enterprise Architecture (EA) cannot be overstated. Organizations will only succeed in meeting these internal and external challenges through the effective development, implementation and use of their EA. This intensive two-day event focuses on the role of EA optimizing the development, implementation and management of an organization’s strategic environment and decision-making framework.
The organization’s EA provides the framework to help establish the necessary business foundation, providing the strategic and operational direction for the business, and environment for the effective integration of processes, information, and data.
The objectives for this intensive two-day seminar include:
- Understanding the dynamic “change” environment, critical events driving major business transformation
- Understanding the organization’s Global Value Chain and strategic coupling with EA
- Learning the concepts, principles and rationale
for the Enterprise Architecture - Learning approaches, techniques, tools and methodologies used for the planning, organizing, designing, developing, implementing the EA
- Learning the EA in addressing key business process, information, data and IT issues both inside and outside the organization
- Understanding how a dynamic EA provides the effective strategic decision-making framework for organizations in the context of its strategic environment
- Identifying the critical factors for success for the effective use of an EA
Participants will gain valuable insights into EA concepts and principles; various approaches and methodologies for the development and use of an EA, and the value of the EA as an important integrative tool to be used by both business and IT managers.
This seminar will provide attendees with an excellent grasp of the development, implementation and management of the global value chain and enterprise architecture for organizations, specifically:
This seminar will provide attendees with an excellent grasp of the development, implementation and management of the global value chain and enterprise architecture for organizations, specifically:
- Necessity To Become More Effective, Efficient and Productive in Operations and Decision Making
- Need To Be More Effective and Integrated in Strategic Thinking & Planning on Business & IT Issues
- Strategies, Value Chain Enablers and Best Practices for the Strategic Environment for Organizations – the Dynamic Global Value Chain
- Strategies, Architectures & Models and Best Practices for the Strategic Decision-Making Framework for Organizations – the Dynamic Enterprise Architecture
- Strategies and Best Practices for Effective Business Process Management
- Strategies and Best Practices for the Effective Use of Data, Information, Knowledge & Intellectual Capital
- Strategic Value, Issues and Options in the Effective Use of Information Systems and Technologies
- Effective Methodologies for Developing & Implementing the Enterprise Architecture Within Organizations, including the Use of the Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture
- Effective Role of the Enterprise Architecture and Performance Metrics To Effectively Implement More Dynamic, Better Informed Executive Decision Making
- Dynamic Change Management, Key Success Factors for Effective Change, Its Importance in Managing Major Change Programs, Including the Global Value Chain and the Enterprise Architecture, and the Strategic Role of the Change Manager
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