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

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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Map, Analyze, Improve Your Process: A Learning Lab - BrainStorm Chicago 2012

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

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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 faster and more effectively. You will learn how to find and work with a sponsor, how to use two guiding lights to keep you on track with your improvement objectives, and how to get the right cross-functional team to participate and work toward a common goal. This course is a learning laboratory where you will practice mapping your as-is process, selecting the right analysis tools for your efforts, and redesigning an improved to-be process using 17 critical rules – and how computer simulation will help you in your recommendations. This structured approach will accelerate your BPM effort and significantly increase the likelihood of successful implementation. The approach focuses your efforts and lets you know what is required for every process, what the specific needs are for your process, and what is just nice to have.

This course is oriented to individuals or teams who will be engaged in modeling and analyzing processes in their organization. It is closely aligned with other BPM Institute offerings in process modeling, measurement, analysis and design. Today, use of software tools is essential for sharing, preserving, and reusing the maps and analyses you create, and for aligning business and IT. We provide a tool with the training, and use it in hands-on exercises in class.

Course Outline:

Communication and mis-communication: Getting everyone on the same page
The Process Model Teams and Roles
Selecting the right process to work on first: Learning Lab
- Creating a High Level Model
- Getting improvement targets and vision from the Sponsor
Building maps using swim lanes, Visio and BPMN at Level 1: Learning Lab
The Happy Path and significant exception paths – how many should you do?
Customer Experience and what’s “value added”
Evaluating the current process – employee concerns, time, waiting, bottlenecks, errors, rework, cost: Learning Lab
Visualizing work and information flow problems on the model: A visual analysis model
Redesigning the Process -5 overriding rules for redesign and 17 techniques to get there
Building the redesigned model: Learning Lab

Unique Value of Course:

Use a structured roadmap for BPM and identify the choice points for your process
Translate traditional paper-based mapping and analysis techniques to software tools
Apply tools and methods to your own work processes in a Learning Lab
Engage business and IT together from the beginning in improving processes
Improve business processes and align business requirements with IT specifications

Objectives:

Document current state processes in a common visual language
Enable department, upstream and down stream departments, and IT collaboration for process improvement efforts
Analyze BPM diagrams to detect problems and suggest potential improvements
Integrate problems visually on a visual analysis model
Describe proposed to-be processes in diagrams usable by both business and IT
Build models that will flow seamlessly to the next stages of modeling for automated implementation

Who Should Attend:

Business analysts, requirements analysts, process analysts
Business Architects

Prerequisites:

BPM 101

Process Modeling, Analysis and Design: As Is, To Be

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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