Instructor Led Business Improvement Training

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...

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 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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Process Modeling With BPMN (2-Day Course) The Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is a standard for business process modeling, and provides a graphical notation for specifying business processes in a Business Process Diagram (BPD), It is based on flowcharting techniques similar to activity diagrams from the Unified Modeling Language (UML). The objective of BPMN is to support business process management for both technical users and  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...

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...

Using Simulations to Increase Process Efficiency Organizations always need to figure out how to do more with less. They need to be more productive with fewer people or scale to meet higher volume levels. There are many ways to optimize resources, increase services or production, and impact the bottom line. This course will show you how to streamline processes in service, office, engineering and production environments by 50-150%. Simulations  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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

BPM 101 Introduction to Business Process Management BPMInstitute. org defines 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,  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...

Identifying and Implementing Business Process Improvements ...business improvement doesn't just happen! Develop skills in Business Process Analysis, Re-engineering and Improvement. A 5-day course accredited by credit4learning. How often do you and your managers take a step back and review the processes that you run, checking to ensure that they are they at the peak of efficiency and that they are actually making a valuable impact towards achieving  more...