BrainStorm Chicago

Only the agile survive

In today's constantly-changing business environment, only the most agile enterprises stand a chance. At BrainStorm Chicago, you’ll receive intensive training and workshops covering the real-world skills needed to successfully implement continuous process improvement in any organization.

If you are looking for more than just incremental improvements in your business, join us in Chicago for an unbiased source of education and insight from the leading experts in the field - and begin building your agile enterprise today.

More than "Just Another" Conference

What started as a series of conferences has evolved into something more. Educational events designed to give attendees the skills they need to improve their organization’s operational efficiency and advance their own careers, regardless of their current position – from business analyst to CEO.

At BrainStorm Chicago, we offer a blend of both product-agnostic training and product-specific workshops.

  • Full-Day Immersion Training - Disciplines and Methodologies
    Immerse yourself in the foundations of real-world process improvement. Learn to apply the underlying concepts and principles of proven disciplines and methodologies from the leading experts in the field.

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  • Half-Day Innovation Workshops - Tools and Techniques
    Learn how to evaluate and incorporate the latest state-of-the-art tools and techniques into your specific environment.

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Full-Day Immersion Training - Disciplines and Methodologies

Our best-in-class instructors are internationally recognized subject-matter authorities. Spend a day with the experts and immerse yourself in the foundations of real-world process improvement.

Our training courses are specifically designed for forward thinking Business and Technology Professionals interested in learning and applying the most current ideologies, strategies, disciplines and methodologies to their specific business environment.

Full-Day Immersion Training courses feature:

  • Methodologies (vs technologies)
  • Best practices
  • Case Study Analysis
  • An extremely interactive, hands-on experience

This event will feature the following Full-Day Training Courses:

Monday, May 07, 2012

BPM 101

An 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 firm’s end-to-end enterprise...
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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...
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BA 101

An 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...
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012

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...
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Building a Business Architecture using Value Chains and 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 business...
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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 enabled most organizations to adopt an incremental approach to SOA...
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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?
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Wednesday, May 09, 2012

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...
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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...
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Service Oriented Integration

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...
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Map, Analyze, Improve Your Process: A Learning Lab

If you are wondering how to focus your BPM efforts this course is for you. Process modeling can take 6 months and the analysis another 6 months after that. But it doesn’t have to. This course demonstrates a structured approach that gets results...
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Thursday, May 10, 2012

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...
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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...
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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...
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Organizational Change Management

Change is the heart and soul of our business environments; making sure that the workforce is ready to meet the demands of the changing work place is fundamental to ongoing business success. Yet many business change initiatives struggle in achieving...
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Data Architecture for Business Architects

Data Architecture for Business Architects is a class based on preeminent thinking of the leading researchers in the Information Architecture domain. This course addresses an integrated way of talking about (modeling) Business Value Chains, Value Streams...
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About our Innovation Workshop series

Half-Day Innovation Workshops allow practitioners the opportunity to experience leading-edge advancements in process improvement technologies and techniques in an educational setting.

Our curriculum is designed to be a highly interactive, hands-on learning experience covering a range of topics to help you best evaluate and incorporate state-of-the-art tools and techniques into your specific business environment.

Half-Day Innovation Workshops feature:

  • Hands-on exercises
  • Software Tool demos
  • Best practices
  • Panels
  • Audience participation
  • Customer case studies

This event will feature the following Half-Day Innovation Workshops:

Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Achieve Success With BPM: How To Break Through The Barriers To BPM

Companies worldwide have for generations sought to better manage their key business processes to improve efficiency, insight into their impact, and to achieve greater business flexibility.  The introduction of new technology consistently provides...
From 9AM to 12PM
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Executive Luncheon: Reflections From 2011, Outlook for 2012

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Featuring: Gregg V. Rock, President & Founder, BrainStorm Group, Inc.

Learn about all the resources available to BPMInstitute.org, BAInstitute.org and SOAInstitute.org Members at this informational luncheon.

From 12PM to 1PM
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Applying BPM to Transform your Business

BPM can deliver levels of transparency, productivity and accountability across your business. To achieve this, you must start with understanding the actionable, practical and proven steps for process improvement success. Join us as we discuss important...
From 2PM to 5PM
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PME Dinner: Professional Member Exchange Dinner

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Good food. Great wine. Better networking.
Professional Members are invited to be a VIP guest at our exclusive, practitioner dinner party and networking event.
BrainStorm CHICAGO
Executive Dinner Party & Networking Event
BrainStorm New York Executive Dinner Party
Date: May 8, 2012
Time: 7:00 P.M.
Cost: Free
(Pro Membership req'd)

Non-Pro Cost: $349
(Pro Membership included in fee)

 

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From 7PM to 9PM
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Wednesday, May 09, 2012

Managing Processes and Decisions for Better Business Outcomes

Process improvement is about achieving better business outcomes. Technology is providing powerful capabilities that organizations are using now to quickly and continuously improve customer-facing and back-end operations. The challenge, of course, is that...
From 9AM to 12PM
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Birds-of-a-Feather Luncheon: Topical Peer To Peer Discussions

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From 12PM to 1PM
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BrainStorm Chicago Venue

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JW Marriott Chicago
151 West Adams Street
Chicago, IL 60603

A limited block of rooms has been reserved for our attendees at the Group Rate of $299/standard and has been Extended until Friday, April 20, 2012.

To make your hotel reservation, please call the JW Marriott directly at Toll Free: 1-877-303-0104 or 1-506-474-2009. Be sure to mention Group Booking Code: “BrainStorm Group” when making your reservation. This rate is based on availability and cannot be guaranteed. Early booking is strongly advised.

BrainStorm Chicago Rates

 

We will accept substitutions or gladly transfer your purchase to another person, event or training course. No refunds are given. Free Workshop passes are valid only for May 8 & 9.

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