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Developing Business Process Models in the Real-World

Presented by Ken Orr, Founder and Chief Scientist, The Ken Orr Institute

Course Description:

This course is intended to provide the student with a clear understanding of the nature of business process modeling in real-world situations.  The seminar itself deals with real-world problems and how to express/document them so that users, business analysts and IT developers can all come to a similar understanding of what both the as-is and the to-be business process models are.  Following such leaders in business process modeling as Rummler-Brache, Mr. Orr provides the student with hands-on experience in developing a series of diagrams from specifically developed case study information.  In the seminar, Mr. Orr takes the basic business process diagramming techniques and shows how they can best be used in working with end-users and managers in a step-by-step approach.  Finally, Mr. Orr will share with the students his view of how business process management fits with business architecture, data architecture and application architecture (service-oriented architecture).

Course Objectives

• Provide a clear understanding of what Business Process Modeling is and is not
• Provide with an understanding of the basic systems framework for Business Process Modeling
• Provide an understanding with hands-on experience developing the most important BP modeling diagramming techniques
• Provide an understanding of a basic BP framework (methodology) for developing BP requirements
• Provide an understanding of the role that BPM tools and standards play
• Provide an understanding of the future trends in BP Modeling

Instructor Biography:

Ken Orr is a Principal Researcher with the Ken Orr Institute, a business technology research organization. He currently serves as a Cutter Consortium Businesses/IT Trends Council Fellow. Previously, he was an Affiliate Professor and Director of the Center for the Innovative Application of Technology with the School of Technology and Information Management at Washington University. He is an internationally recognized expert on business process management, technology transfer, enterprise architecture, software engineering, information architecture, and data warehousing. Mr. Orr is the author of three books and hundreds of articles. Mr. Orr is currently directing research on a new technology called eXecutable Business Processes (eXecutable business process).

Target Audience/Who Should Attend:

• Senior managers
• CIOs and CTOs
• Project managers
• End-users and end-user managers
• Business process analysts
• IT analysts and developers