Business Information Semantics & Rules - BrainStorm Chicago 2012

BrainStorm Chicago

May 7th thru 10th, 2012 at the JW Marriott 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.

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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
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Half-Day Innovation Workshops - Tools and Techniques
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Business Information Semantics & Rules - BrainStorm Chicago 2012

05/10/2012 - 09:00 From 9AM to 5PM

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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 business people use to talk about business information, and relates those terms to business strategy, processes, capabilities and organization aspects of the blueprint. Business information architecture also examines the strategic and operational decisions that a business makes and analyzes the information needed to enable the decision.

Business information architecture provides a common vocabulary of business information terms within the business architecture, across multiple lines of business and between business and IT. It allows a direct analysis of the information transformations needed to support a business transformation initiative. In particular, it examines the linkage between strategic and operational decisions and the information that enables them. The linkages between terms in the vocabulary provide support for information impact analysis. The vocabulary can also be linked to other aspects of the business architecture such as business processes, business capabilities, organization, value chains, and so forth. Such linkages support a more thorough analysis of transformation impact. Finally, the vocabulary can be linked to IT information models, allowing the business and IT organizations to jointly plan for change.

This course shows how to model strategy and its linkages to operational transformation of essential business processes. Strategic and transformational decision points are identified and their information requirements are modeled. Because the creation and management of information is expensive, the lifecycle, provenance and governance of information may be modeled to support decisions about how to collect and manage the information.

Course Outline:

Business Information Architecture in Business Architecture
Business Information and Business Decisions, Business view of knowledge
Conceptual Modeling of Business Strategy and Knowledge
Business Rules and Actions
Information Provenance, Lifecycle, Governance
Business Information Architecture and IT Information Modeling

Unique Value of Course:

Business Architecture is the application of model driven analysis to the definition and execution of business strategy and transformation. Business Information Architecture is one of the primary facets of Business Architecture; its roles are to provide the vocabulary for Business Architecture and to link information to business decisions.

“Without a comprehensive description of strategy, executives cannot easily communicate strategy among themselves or to their employees.” (Kaplan and Norton, Strategy Maps, 2004)

Attendees will learn how to apply architecture techniques to business strategy and analysis approaches such as Strategy Maps and Balanced Scorecard
Attendees will learn a basic conceptual modeling language and investigate the practice and tools of conceptual modeling
Attendees will investigate several business architecture case studies to discover how to apply conceptual modeling and how to extract business value from the models

Objectives:

Understand the concepts, aspects and uses of business information architecture
Gain an initial understanding of how to create business information architecture and apply it to a business transformation project
Learn best practices for creating and sustaining business information architecture
Understand how to extend the value of business information architecture by linking it to other business and IT architectures
Learn to “sell” a project to create initial business information architecture to your enterprise

Who Should Attend:

Business Architects and Analysts
IT Architects and Analysts interested in Business Architecture
Managers / Executives
Consultants

Prerequisites:

BA 101

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

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

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

From 12PM to 1PM

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