Business Process Management Training and Seminars

Balanced Scorecard 2 Days The purpose of this seminar is to: > Communicate the concepts of The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) > Equip the participants with fundamental BSC development skills > Explain how to assess the best approach to BSC design and implementation in different organizations The training covers topics such as: > The Planning Cycle > Corporate Strategy Development and Communication > Strategy Maps >  more...

Business Process Reengineering 2 Day Training objectives The purpose of this seminar is to: > Communicate the concepts of Business Process Reengineering (BPR) > Equip the participants with fundamental BPR skills > Explain how to assess the best approach to BPR implementation in different organizations Training method The training method involves: > Description of the theory > Reinforcement of the theory by case studies  more...

Human Resources Scorecard 1 Day Training objectives The purpose of this seminar is to: > Communicate the concepts of the Human Resources Scorecard (HRS) > Equip the participants with fundamental HRS development skills > Explain how to assess the best approach to HRS implementation in different organizations Training method The training method involves: > Description of the theory > Reinforcement of the theory by case  more...

Key Performance Indicators 2 Day Training objectives The purpose of this seminar is to: > Provide an introduction, and in-depth examples of KPIs at work > Communicate the value of KPIs to the business, in business language > Provide participants with the ability to calculate the Return On Investment (ROI) for KPI projects Training method The training method involves: > Description of the theory > Reinforcement of the  more...

Leadership 1 Day Training objectives The purpose of this seminar is to: > Communicate the importance of leadership development in the corporate world > Equip the participants with fundamental leadership development skills > Explain how to assess the leadership development requirements for different types of organization Training method The training method involves: > Description of the theory >  more...

Innovation Techniques Workshop 1 Day Training objectives The purpose of this seminar is to: > Communicate the importance of innovation in corporate survival > Equip the participants with fundamental innovation skills > Explain how to assess the typical innovation skills required by different organizations Training method The training method involves: > Description of the theory > Reinforcement of the theory by case studies  more...

Executive Master Class in Business Process Management ...Business Process Management (BPM) is an executive education programme that aims to educate business and IT professionals, consultants and managers to face process management challenges with confidence! This modular 12-month programme provides a unique learning experience where formal knowledge transfer of technical concepts is deeply rooted in business practice. A perfect balance between  more...

Excellence in Business Process Improvement ...ctively through a structured and complete methodology for business process management and improvement. - Module I: Strategy and Performance Management - Module II: Advanced Techniques for Process Improvement: Focus on Modelling - Module III: Advanced Techniques for Process Improvement: Quality Perspective - Module IV: Setting Up a Process Support Organisation As a result of this  more...

DISC 4 Week Tele-Classes March 4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th @ 3 pm CST Learn about behavioral styles Understand your own strengths and weaknesses How to manage different styles How to match behavior to job roles How to use DISC in the hiring process How to read a DISC Graph How to sell and service different styles  more...

In-Depth Business Process Modelling with BPMN Training - 2 day This two day workshop provides a detailed examination of business process modelling using Business Process Modelling Notation, including hands-on exercises modelling process workflow and collaboration in BPMN. A number of case study models are constructed during the two days allowing delegates to put into practical use the BPMN notations and best practices taught in class. In addition,  more...

Developing Successful Management Capability This workshop will help supervisors and managers create a more dynamic, loyal, and energized workplace. It is designed specifically to help busy managers and supervisors understand what employees want, and to give them a starting point for creating champions.  more...

Business Breakfast Seminars Aptero Solutions are embarking on a series of free business breakfast seminars covering topics including the analysis of business processes using the Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN). The sessions will be held in venues across the UK and include invited speakers as well as Aptero's own training consultants. Opportunities will be given for group discussion and to receive free advice  more...

Workshop - Business Process Modelling with BPMN An introduction to the benefits and techniques used in business process modelling, including hands-on exercises modelling business landscape and process workflow in BPMN. The course will introduce the attendees to a levelled approach to business process modelling, showing that BPMN can be accessible to most stakeholders, and beneficial to all to record and communicate process analysis. The  more...

Process Management - Why Make it Difficult? The real difficulty lies not in developing new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones. (John Maynard Keynes) Nobody argues these days when someone suggests that it s important to define and manage our business processes. So why do so many organisations struggle to get to grips with process management effectively? This workshop will unveil some of the organisational inhibitors that most of us  more...

BPM 101 Introduction to Business Process Management ...Business Process Management (BPM) as the deliberative, collaborative, and increasingly technology-aided definition, improvement and management of a firma ™s end-to-end enterprise business processes in order to achieve three outcomes crucial to a performance-based, customer-driven firm: 1) clarity on strategic direction, 2) alignment of the firma ™s resources, and 3) increased  more...

PMI Project Management One Essential Principles and Tools November16-18 2010 This seminar helps any professional to become grounded in the fundamental principles, tools, and vocabulary of project management to their work. Appropriate for all skill levels and backgrounds, the only prerequisite is that each student bring in a real world project to work on during the seminar. We use the Project Management Institute (PMI) Body of Knowledge (provided to each student) to teach a  more...

IIBA Accredited business analysis training in Pune Business analysis is a critical process that drives the project life cycle. The business analyst, acting as an intermediary between the business and technical communities, analyzes competing business needs and develops plans to implement the projects that support stakeholder objectives. In this course, you gain foundational knowledge of the role and function of the business analyst. You also learn  more...

Advanced Facilitation Skills for Process Improvement Projects Advanced facilitation skills are crucial to lead a team through improving a process and building consensus around change. During large-scale change it is important for all parties to reach a shared understanding of the purpose, objectives, scope, processes and improvements being implemented. While this can occur via multiple presentations and iterations, creating these deliverables through a  more...

Developing Process Improvement Initiatives with Your BPMS Are you realizing the promise of BPM and of your BPMS investment? Many companies expected that purchasing a BPMS tool would facilitate the transformation to a process-centric organization by instigating a series of process improvement initiatives. Unfortunately, a majority of companies are not seeing this promise and need best practices to make the goal a reality. In this course you will learn  more...

Establishing Business Process Governance Centers of Excellence As process management begins to blur the traditional boundaries of the organization, a more transparent and accurate decision making process is necessary. This course builds a comprehensive understanding of how to best address this challenge with a focus on developing a firm understanding of the emerging roles of process owner, process council, and the process office.  more...

Managing Process Change Improvement through Transformation How do you manage business process change? Is there a one-size fits all approach or do you need a set of tools? What is a best-practice approach to managing process change today? From Improvement to Reengineering, this course will cover the major methodologies used to implement process transformation and examine the challenges, benefits and risks of each approach. A strategic framework for  more...

Methodologies and Approaches for BPM Embracing a set of methods and standard approaches are critical for accelerating BPM adoption across an organization. This advanced course is designed to expose the student to a broad array of methods used during different phases of a BPM program. The course is also is meant to demystify much of the hype around using Six Sigma and Lean while managing business processes. Throughout the course case  more...

Map Analyze Improve Your Process A Learning Lab Are you facing some of these challenges? *You know BPM is important but you are not sure how to get started *You have started mapping/ modeling processes but you cana ™t get much traction to implement improvements *You need to coordinate several players in the process and you dona ™t know how to get them to see the problem together *You are worried that process modeling and  more...

Moving Up the BPM Maturity Curve How can an organization evolve on the road to process management? That is the principle question that this course addresses. Many companies start their BPM journey by executing one or two projects of small scope. That may be fine at the outset, but in order to address the larger performance issues, companies need to move up the BPM maturity curve from repeatable to defined and then to managed and  more...

Organizational Change Management Change is the heart and soul of business optimization. Yet many business optimization initiatives struggle in achieving success and up to 70% fail for one key reason a a failure to recognize and manage the impact of the changes on the organization. This training class introduces participants to different concepts of organizational change management and provides an opportunity to experience  more...

BPM 102 Getting the Most Out of BPM Tools and Technology In addition to a management discipline, BPM also provides a wide array of tools and technology. They not only allow a professional to document and analyze a company's process requirements, but also provide a software platform for continuous process improvement. These range from software for process modeling and simulation analysis to business rule definition and management, workflow automation,  more...

Advanced Process Management Principles - Key to Sustainability What do leaders want? In a word a RESULTS! And that is precisely what process management can deliver when practiced at the enterprise level. BPM is not just about technology. It is first and foremost about improving organizational performance. Major initiatives will only be optimized if senior leaders are engaged in applying process management principles and practices at the enterprise level.  more...

Using Simulations to Increase Process Efficiency ...but reduce process efficiency by 70%. Then we will use a Business Process Management computer simulation and test different models to see which wastes we confirm and which new ones we find. We will introduce and use several evaluation techniques which Reduce costs Increase process efficiency. Increase value to the customer In the afternoon, we develop countermeasures for the  more...

Using BPM Discipline with Six Sigma Lean Methodologies ...bility, and performance management. We teach you apply Business Process Management to build the framework that creates strategic alignment. We help you to identify metrics for the business processes that are aligned with business goals. Then your organization can identify performance gaps that have a major impact on the customer experience and on achieving desired business results. Six Sigma  more...

Process Measurement and Metrics Process measurement skills are essential to BPM success. In this course you will acquire a solid understanding of practical measurement techniques as applied to the analysis and design of business processes. Determining what to measure and defining clear measurement criteria are at the basis of success in process measurement. This session presents key concepts and tools on the basic principles  more...

Process Modeling Analysis and Design As Is To Be Modeling, analysis and design skills are essential to BPM success. In this course you will acquire a solid understanding of practical techniques for modeling, analysis and design. The section of this lesson on modeling provides insight on how to depict business processes via maps and models in order to prepare for the analysis and improvement of business process performance. You will learn the  more...

Process Modeling With BPMN (2-Day Course) ...eling Language (UML). The objective of BPMN is to support business process management for both technical users and business users by providing a notation that is intuitive to business users yet able to represent complex process semantics. The BPMN specification also provides a mapping between the graphics of the notation to the underlying constructs of execution languages, such as Business  more...

SOA 101 The Foundation for Cloud Computing Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a hosted service over the Internet i. e. the cloud. To take advantage of these services, organizations need to understand Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Recent tactical success in the utilization of Web services and the value proposition of Cloud Computing has brought  more...

Service Oriented Integration SOI Standards Technologies and Best Practices IT managers have been under increasing pressure to migrate a portfolio of independent "stovepipe" applications to an integrated set of business services that can be aligned with changing business requirements and support new business processes faster and with reduced cost. Today, corporations have to choose from a number of integration products such as Integration Brokers, J2EE Application  more...

Data Architecture for Business Architects Data Architecture for Business Architects is a class based on some of the leading edge thinking of some of the leading researchers both outside and inside Wells, Fargo. This course addresses an integrated way of talking about (modeling) Business Value Chains, Value Streams and Business Processes and Information (Data) Architecture. More and more, organizations are taking these ideas and applying  more...

Designing Service Oriented Solutions Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has emerged as the dominant architectural style, especially for enterprise solutions. The potential benefits of SOA in terms of flexibility, agility, cost, and time to market have secured its position, and most software organizations are planning to or are currently adopting SOA. But is the marketing hype just setting up SOA to deliver another major  more...

SOA for Architects Defining a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the current challenge of many enterprise IT organizations. The emergent popularity of Web services, and the ease of implementation, has muddied the waters, as many have adopted an incremental approach to SOA via Web services, without first thinking through the larger architectural issues. This course sets the context for describing an SOA from an  more...

Understanding Cloud Computing and Its Value Proposition in BPM Enterprises large and small are drawn by the advantages of Cloud Computing a e. g. pay-for-use, self-service, elastic scalability and the elimination of hardware management a resulting in very low barriers to technology bentry and exit and high agility. Significant innovations in virtualization, and distributed computing, as well as improved access to high-speed Internet and a weak economy,  more...

BA 101 Introduction to Business Architecture What does Business Architecture mean to your organization? Most organizations lack a well articulated blueprint of their business. While everyone can see their small piece of the puzzle, no one has visibility into the enterprise as a whole. This in turn constrains the organizationa ™s collective ability to visualize the root cause of critical issues and rapidly craft viable solutions. To  more...

Building a Business Architecture using Value Chains Value Streams The Building a Business Architecture Using Value Chains and Value Streams class describes an approach and method for building an architecture of the business. It explains how to build and integrate your customer centric cross-functional processes, sometimes called value streams or capabilities, with the IT architectures and the value chains found in the corporate strategy. It formally captures  more...

Business Architecture IT Architecture Alignment Cross-Disciplinary Alignment Strategies for Business IT Most organizations lack a well articulated blueprint of their business. While everyone can see their small piece of the puzzle, no one has visibility into the enterprise as a whole. This in turn constrains the organizationa ™s collective ability to visualize the root cause of critical issues and rapidly craft viable solutions. To address this lack of enterprise visibility, organizations must  more...

Business Information Semantics Rules Is your enterprise defining a business transformation led by value chain analysis or a balanced scorecard? Are you having trouble finding data to serve as measures? Are you having a problem communicating the transformation details? These are symptoms of a missing business information architecture. Business information architecture is an aspect of business architecture that defines the terms that  more...

Modernizing Requirements Gathering Reshaping the Approach to Business Analysis Today's conventional approach to requirements analysis and engineering is limited in its value as organizations attempt to address demands for increased innovation, rapid product and service rollout, outsourcing and new technology enablers such as BPMS, business rules engines and SOA. Additionally, the agile development movement and IT-centric methods for analyzing and designing software  more...

Business Rules and BDM 101 Incorporating Business Rules and Decisions into BPM BDM and SOA This intensive business rule tutorial is specifically targeted at both non-technical and technical audiences and is excellent for entire project teams. Attendees may be those involved in purely business-oriented business rule projects or projects targeted for system development. Aimed at project managers and key project people, this tutorial is the fastest and simplest way to get started on a  more...

Business Rules Driven Requirements This tutorial provides a powerful way to enhance existing models-based Business Requirements methods a adding a new model called the Decision Model to the catalog of business requirements. This significantly improves requirements in classic waterfall, unified method projects, and Agile Methods. The course is deliberately integrated with and references the BPMInstitute. org course that focuses on  more...

Business Decision Maturity Model BDMM The Executive Tool for Achieving Organizational Business Decision Maturity This course is specifically for business and I/ T executives and architects interested in aligning business objectives with optimum business decision management practices. Its premise is that a The quality of a business is related not only to the quality of its business processes and software infrastructure but also to the quality of the business decisions that drive both of these.a  more...

CPG Demand Planning and Forecasting Web Workshop Consumer Packaged Goods companies are faced with a changing retail landscape dominated by a few large retailers and higher uncertainty from consumer preferences and retail promotional policies. Just a few of your customers can exert a great influence on your planning, logistics and execution processes. However, the large retail customers have also created the infrastructure and the technology that  more...

Certified Plant Maintenance Manager CPMM training This class prepares the student to take the Association of Facilities Engineering CPMM certification test. The class is 4 days long with testing on day five. The class is available in several formats including live on-line, public sessions and on-site sessions. The on-line and public session are done through AFE sponsorship. The on site sessions are done by Machinery Management Solutions, Inc  more...

Business Process Modelling using BPMN and EA Course Overview The course is designed for Business Analysts who have a good working knowledge of both UML and Enterprise Architect and wish to upgrade their knowledge in how to use BPMN to model business processes and how to capture these models efficiently within Enterprise Architect. Who should attend? Business Analysts Course Style This course is hands-on with practical exercises  more...

Process Approach ISO Internal Auditor We offer 'Process Approach ISO Internal Auditor'training course conducted by our qualified and experienced trainer, Mr K. Suntheram. The ISO/ TS 16949: 2009 INTERNAL QUALITY AUDIT is used to determine conformance to the Quality System Requirements of ISO/ TS 16949: 2009. Proper use of the COP Analysis, Audit Preparation Worksheet, and Process Audit Preparation Turtle will promote consistency  more...

Effective Quality Control for QA and QC Personnel We offer 'Effective Quality Control for QA & QC Personnel' training course conducted by our qualified and experienced trainer, Mr. K. Suntheram. Quality and Quality Assurance Control are key values in manufacturing today, and the QA/ QC group plays a key role in ensuring that the customer receives only quality product. To achieve this, it is imperative that companies have a well-trained  more...

Three Techniques to Reduce Aggregate Sales Forecast Error by MORE THAN 25 Percent in LESS THAN 100 Days Reducing forecast error IS what the Chief Forecaster does! All forecast error eventually results in increased inventory error. When actual sales arrive at a rate less than the forecast, the result is residual inventory. Likewise, when actual sales outstrip the forecast, customers backorders result which almost always results in someone swearing to never let that happen again resulting in an  more...

Performance Metrics and Executive Compensation Oversight Duties and Responsibilites of the Board of Directors The Manufacturing Executive Institute (MEI)is proud to announce a new 1-day seminar in our "Professional Governance" workshop series that focuses on how to monitor and measure executive compensation, and how to create powerful incentive-based compensation programs for leadership employees.  more...

Constructing and Maintaining the Market Requirements Definition - The Critical Missing Link in Sales Forecasting Forecasting requires data from the past (historical sales data), data from the present (direct communications with sales staff and customers) and data the future (the Market Requirements Definition, or MRD). The MRD is a document that expresses all that needs to be known about products, markets and customers; looking into the future. The MRD is the Chief Forecastera ™s view into what will  more...

SEVEN Innovative Techniques to Streamline the Process of Procuring Routine Raw Materials Much has changed in the world of purchasing over the last two decades. Globalization of supply chains, economic pressures to reduce prices and the need to manage procurement risks have all changed the responsibilities in the Procurement organization. Add to this an ever increasing work load driven by shorter product life cycles and more frequent new product introductions, and one can quickly  more...

FOUR Techniques to Reduce Raw Material Costs by MORE THAN 5 Percent in LESS THAN 100 Days This valuable 1-day Manufacturing Executive Institute 2nd Saturday - "Practical Capital" Monthly Workshop has been specifically designed to provide FOUR tangible techniques for reducing total raw material costs by MORE THAN 5% in LESS THAN 100 days. Participants will learn the "mechanics" of the 4 techniques as well as how they can successfully implement the techniques within their specific  more...

The Chief Forecasters Job 3 Critical Forecast Inputs to DRAMATICALLY Improve Forecast Accuracy It has been said that all sales forecasts exist somewhere between "lucky" and "lousy." And yet it is these same forecasts that ultimately determine, and broadcast, the demand rate our factories and distribution centers are responsible for supporting. If customer satisfaction is ever to improve, and be sustained, at THE SAME TIME inventory decreases, a new approach to balancing supplies with  more...

How to Blend the Best of KanBan and MRP Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and KanBan-type inventory planning systems are not mutually exclusive in their abilities to provide planning and control direction within a supply chain. And while much has been written about the incompatibilities of these two systematic approaches to managing inventory, this presentation will address how these two seemingly opposite approaches to inventory  more...

THREE Techniques to Reduce Raw Material and Finished Goods Safety Stocks by MORE THAN 25 Percent in LESS THAN 100 Days Raw material and finished goods inventories may be the largest and most volatile asset in your company. Investment in these inventory accounts is mainly driven by 3 considerations: Process lead-time Demand predictability Supply reliability The last two factors, predictability of demand and supply reliability present special problems when trying to determine how much inventory is needed  more...