Instructor Led Bpm Initiatives Training

Business Process Mapping Project Management (1 Day) Poor customer service, poor product reliability, poor warranty repair - we have all experienced these and have the scars and war stories to prove it. A significant majority of problems are directly related to processes. Eighty-five percent (85%) of an organization's quality and efficiency problems are built into its systems. There are numerous companies, small and large, that have not even  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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Using BPM Discipline with Six Sigma Lean Methodologies To provide students the ability to create a Customer focused a Process Enabled Enterprise. This requires a business process framework, established enterprise architecture, creating "real-time" business intelligence, and a link between continuous improvement projects and key business processes. Most businesses need to evolve from a bottoms-up Six Sigma (DMAIC) approach, to a strategic framework  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...

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...

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...

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...

Business Process Management Facilitation This 3-day BPM Facilitation Class helps participants take their facilitation skills to the next level. A case study is provided to practice facilitation techniques needed for conducting BPM workshops and business meetings. The case study will re-enforce the facilitation skills needed for a BPM initiative by providing practice facilitating the specific stages of process analysis and design. The  more...