Instructor Led Case Training in Massachusetts, USA

Metrics and Measures for Effective Leadership Effective leadership requires a solid understanding of the metrics and measures necessary to help make important business decisions and to assess the impact of critical initiatives. This course offers a tool-based experience where you will develop an appreciation for both traditional and innovative business metrics. Examples from best practice organizations and case studies will help you to better  more...

Today's HR-Designs for Strategic Partnerships CEOs want a proactive HR department that operates at the strategic rather than tactical level. As businesses become more complex and leaders are forced to rise to the occasion during times of uncertainty and change, it is vital that HR does the same. Some HR organizations have gone through the process of fundamentally re-purposing what they do and why they exist, but little has been shared on  more...

Strategic Thinking More than ever, todaya ™s leaders require the ability to execute tactically, as well as work and think strategically. The key lies not just in individual skills, but also in the ability to engage others in an ongoing strategic process. Come to this program to discover your capabilities as a strategic thinker, gain an understanding of the key components of strategic thinking, and apply  more...

Bottom-Line OD-A Certificate Program for Improving ROI Offered in exclusive partnership with Merrill C. Anderson This program is facilitated by Dr. Merrill Anderson, who certifies OD and HR professionals in the critical concepts of ROI as an essential element of the change process. Learn how to build a business case for change, conduct ROI evaluations, and demonstrate the business value of your people and change initiatives.  more...

Driving Innovation Only one in ten companies is able to maintain an above-average rate of growth for more than a few years. And with economic conditions shifting rapidly, organizations are further challenged to find new ways to compete in todaya s global economy. The key lies in successful product, service, and process innovation in the core business and in new markets. In this cutting-edge program, use practical  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 ... and software change lifecycle. Through the integrated case study within the course, students are introduced to techniques and tools that elevate the role of the business analyst. Exercises are used to walk through the inception of business needs, requirements and business specifications that can map to executable workflows, business rules, user interfaces and software services . In  more...

Building a Business Architecture using Value Chains Value Streams ...formance. This class is supported with a high level case study, illustrating all of the BA models needed to derive and engineer the other enterprise architectures. The dominant theme of the BA is a customer centric focus coupled with a holistic view of the enterprise, to deliver a value creating system. The IT community is certainly no stranger to architecture development and  more...

Understanding Cloud Computing and Its Value Proposition in BPM ...explanation of the business drivers for it, including use cases and selected vertical industry initiatives. It will explain the basic concepts of Cloud Computing and the three categories: IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. It will describe Cloud Service Governance, Management and Security a and their role in designing Cloud Computing for the enterprise. It will introduce the concept of "BPM in the  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...

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...

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...

Methodologies and Approaches for BPM ... while managing business processes. Throughout the course case studies are presented to guide the student through the best use of approaches such as iterative and water-fall, and techniques such as the use of work-out-sessions and face-to-face interviews. The course places special emphasis on business-facing process discovery, modeling, simulation, and deployment techniques. The goal is to  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...

Using Risk Assessment to Build Individual Audit Programs ...en investigate the innovative methodology in a practical, case-based work session that will lead you step-by-step through the development of an individual audit program that can be executed in your own organization. You are encouraged to bring an audit subject and background information to use in this class exercise. Attend this timely seminar to learn how to focus your audits on the business  more...

Testing for Fraud in Key Financial Accounts .... Throughout the session you will use some 30 reports and case studies based on actual SEC documents covering some of todaya ™s largest financial statement frauds to apply what youa ™ve learned to real-world scenarios. Reflecting today's audit standards and consistent with the responsibilities of auditors, these reports will bring you face -to-face with the perils and pitfalls some  more...

Fundamentals of Internal Auditing ...trol/ fieldwork techniques. Using specifically formulated case exercises, you will examine the critical elements of internal auditing: assessing risk, flowcharting, designing flexibility into the audit program, performing the audit and applying audit results to solve business problems. You will focus on and put into practice the communications skills associated with internal auditing:  more...

Uncovering Fraud in Core Business Functions Core business functions offer abundant opportunities for undetected fraud. In this eye-opening, three-day seminar you will pinpoint the areas most prone to internal fraud and identify key indicators of potential crime. You will focus on the expenditure, revenue/ cash receipts, treasury, inventory, travel expense, contract, payroll and HR, computer, marketing, and outsourced functions as targets  more...

Auditing Business Application Systems This three-day seminar is designed for financial, operational, and information technology auditors who need a technical and operational understanding to audit automated business applications. Focusing on a top-down, risk-based approach to auditing application system transactions, you will master techniques that can be applied to all types of applications from batch to on-line to real-time systems.  more...