Debra Boykin will provide insight into the strategy being used to transform the Technical Operations and Product Supply group into a robust process driven organization. This presentation will highlight the critical success factors inherent to successfully implementing BPM initiatives within a large-scale organization.
Identifying and establishing the building blocks of a corporate wide Business Process Transformation effort required one company to resort to creative methods. Pinnacle West formed the Greater Phoenix Area Business Process Management Consortium to help themselves and their community get up to speed on the promise and the reality of Business Process Management.
Growing the BPM Community in Phoenix is helping the industry to mature and the organizations to thrive. Come and hear about it.
This presentation describes an approach and method for building a Business Architecture (BA). It illustrates how to build and integrate your core cross-functional processes, sometimes called value streams, with all the architectures of enterprise and the corporate strategy. The BA is the next logical evolution in business process modeling and IT architecture integration. Used properly as a management tool, the BA can create opportunities for improving enterprise performance and delivering value.
Nike delivered its first set of enterprise available services in April of 2008 as part of a proof of concept and pilot of Service Oriented Architecture. This presentation will take you through Nike's journey to date with a look at the next steps and learning along the way. High level agenda or topics covered:
- Defining what a SOA is to Nike.
- Why did Nike invest in this pilot and journey?
- How does Nike build applications and does SOA fit?
- What Nike did to execute the SOA pilot?
- What Nike has learned?
With organizations giving high priority to maturing their business analysts’ skills, it is necessary to reflect on the effectiveness of today’s business analysis best practices when adopting Rules-Driven Business Process Management. Understanding how the adoption of business rules and BPM impact the business analyst role is critical to achieving the reduce cost and increased business agility promised by rules and BPM vendors. The presenter will discuss the current challenges related to modeling tools and analysis techniques along with introducing a business analysis maturity model that is a useful roadmap for organizations adopting aspects of Rules-Driven BPM.
Business architecture is emerging as a key focus for organizations seeking to optimize business environments and governance structures. This presentation provides an overview of business architecture visualization and alignment concepts. The session also examines the current state of business architecture in practice along with commonly deployed approaches. Finally, the session looks at industry frameworks, emerging standards and the importance of business / IT architecture alignment.
Process design principles are distilled best practices derived from world class organizations. These principles provide a guideline for process improvement efforts. By using design principles, new processes can be designed very quickly. In addition these new processes will exhibit higher quality, lower cost, faster cycle time, and less worker frustration.
The Discovery session will use a series of story boards to map real- life incidents with the user experience, the business process, and support systems. The storyboard cases personify how these components are to behave and interact with each other. These storyboards are encapsulated in maps and will be used as the foundation for project scope, system requirements, and business rules. A storyboard is a series of illustrations that represent a process or a series of interactions within a process. Independent of existing tools and procedures.
- Sequence of user activities
- Action specific Interface / Transition
- Migration from one step to another
- Illustration of business process
The presentation will include a storyboard example using mind mapping software.
We define Business Decision Management (BDM) and show its relationship to Business Rules, Business Process Management (BPM) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). We demonstrate the how BDM ties Business Rules to BPM and SOA, and how it can significantly enhance the business capability of these technologies. Finally we look at what it takes to implement BDM in terms of skills, technology, and methodology, and how to get started toward success.
It seems like we're always in project meetings - planning meetings, status meetings, meetings to figure things out, meetings to review what’s been done, and more. Yet most meetings are viewed as unproductive, tedious, wastes of precious time.
You can change that! By applying some simple facilitation techniques, you can transform both your virtual and face-to-face meetings into well-planned, well-managed journeys that engage the team while achieving the intended goals.
