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Pascal Allouard
is an IT consultant, working with City Practitioners based in London,
assisting the financial sector in its new challenges. The main areas of
practice include Enterprise Architecture, Process Design and IT alignement.
Prior to this role, within Detica, Pascal has been involved in the launch
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Christophe Bastard has an Engineering Degree from EPITA and a Master Degree from Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Lyon. From 1994 - 1998 he was the Sales manager at Computer Sciences and in 1998 became the founder & CEO of C-Log International. Events |
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Aneta Biernikowicz-Premčeska
has an MBA degree. She has worked for telcos of 400, 4000 and 40.000
employees - always in the field of process management, on its conceptual
as well as on the operational side. After gaining some international experience
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Matthew Brown is Managing Director of Proforma EMEA Limited, formerly Winsoft Business Solutions Ltd, - (www.proforma-emea.com) - a process improvement company providing software, consultancy and training services. He has worked in oil exploration as a geophysicist and geodesist, the computer software industry as a programmer and database design engineer, and the process improvement world as an analyst and facilitator. Realising that many process improvement projects fail as a result of not understanding the problem or the requirements, he started Winsoft to help organisations discuss, agree and improve their processes. He believes that understanding the Who, What, Where, When, Why and How of an organisation is essential if you are to improve the organisation. Events |
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Roger T Burlton is the founder of Process Renewal Group and the author of ‘Business Process Management: Profiting from Process’. He is considered an industry leader in the introduction of innovative approaches for organizational change. He is recognized internationally for his contributions in Business Process Management, Stakeholder Analysis, Strategic Architecture Alignment, Prototyping and people based Project Management Methodologies. He is regarded as a realistic practitioner, who delivers pragmatic solutions for his clients. An exceptional speaker, he has chaired several high profile conferences on Advanced Business and Information Management around the world, including the BPMG Tenth Annual Process Management Conference, Process and Knowledge Management Europe, the National BPR Conference, DCI’s Knowledge Management Conferences, Software World, and The Executive Summit. To date, he has conducted over five hundred seminars and has presented to over twenty thousand professionals. His seminars have been translated for audiences around the globe. Events |
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Brett Champlin is an internal Process Consultant with a large insurance firm where he leads business and IT process innovation and redesign projects. He led the development of process modeling standards and an enterprise process model repository, as well as the selection of the enterprise process modeling, analysis and design tools. He has over 20 years of experience working in Information Systems and Management. Brett has an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Roosevelt University and an MBA from Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). He is a Certified Computing Professional (CCP) with proficiencies in Information Management, Systems Development, Software Engineering and Data Resource Management. He is a Senior Lecturer in the MBA and MSIS programs of the School of Business at Roosevelt University where he has taught for the past 17 years. Brett is one of the founders and the president of the Association for Business Process Management Professionals (ABPMP), the only BPM organization run by and for practitioners in all areas of process analysis, design, development, measurement and management – see ABPMP.org. He is a Past President of DAMA Chicago and served on the board of directors of DAMA International for five years. He contributed a chapter on Process Modeling to the publication, "Guidelines for Implementing Data Resource Management", and is an occasional contributor to DM Review and The Data Administration Newsletter. Brett is on the board of directors and serves as the chair of the strategic planning committee and vice president of the executive committee of the Institute for the Certification of Computing Professionals (ICCP). Events |
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Based
at FileNET’s European headquarters in the Doug has more than 13 years' industry experience, including five years at BP Amoco, where he was a developer and business consultant within client computing. He has also held senior consultancy positions at European Software Publishing, First Horizon and Watermark Software, prior to joining FileNet in 1995. Events |
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Jonathan Cooper has over 14 years experience in business strategy, marketing, channel management and governance and has spent the last 5 years consulting for industrial clients. As a strategy consultant Jonathan advises clients on how to implement business strategy, linking strategy through to execution with business processes and the management of those processes. He has particpated in IBM’s own transformation to create a more flexible business. Jonathan is currently seconded to the IBM Institute of Business Value to develop new thought leadership material addressing strategic business issues in the industrial sector. He has an MBA from the Warwick Business School. Events
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Prof Colin Coulson-Thomas is Chairman of Adaptation Ltd; Cotoco Ltd and Policy Publications Ltd; Head of the Centre for Competitiveness and Professor of Competitiveness at the University of Luton. A counsellor on business development and on corporate direction, transformation and learning, he has helped over 70 boards to improve board and corporate performance. Formerly chairman of ASK Europe plc for eight years, he served for ten years on the Board of Moorfields Eye Hospital, and for six years as Deputy Chairman of the London Electricity Consultative Council. He served two terms on the Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine, nine years on the National Biological Standards Board, five years on the Council of the Foundation for Science and Technology and four years as Corporate Affairs Adviser to the British Institute of Management. He is a past Chairman of the Crossbencher parliamentary liaison programme, and a past Chairman and past President of the Focus Group. Colin has served on various corporate boards and governing bodies of representative, professional, learned, and voluntary institutes, societies and associations, including as chairman and president. He led the European Commission’s COBRA initiative which examined restructuring across Europe, was the principal author and co-presenter of the ‘employment and training’ module of the ‘CBI Initiative 1992’, and is the principal author of the ‘Induction Package for New TEC Directors’. Colin has led various change management, re-engineering and transformation projects and surveys of entrepreneurial/boardroom issues, attitudes and practice for the Institute of Directors, Institute of Management, Institute of Personnel Management, Government Departments and the NHS. Events |
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Rob Davis is a Principle Consultant in BT Exact Process Solutions and leads the BT ARIS Modelling Techniques Team. Rob has been involved in process for over six years. Rob selected ARIS and established it as BT's corporate modelling tool developing the standards for its use and providing technical consulting to over 500 BT ARIS users. Rob is an internationally recognised expert in the use of the ARIS and is the author of the definitive book on the use of ARIS: "Business Process Modelling with ARIS" (Springer, 2001). Rob has presented papers at a number of international ARIS related events including ProcessWorld in 2000 and 2001. Events |
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Marc de Goeij followed a professional career in banking before he became a full time consultant in the Organization Management space. After his last banking position as a Senior Vice President for Strategy Development and Business Architecture at a global bank, he founded Effective Management Consultancy, as a partner of Canadian based Process Renewal Group. Recently, he co-founded Adaptive, Inc. a company focusing on guiding and supporting organizations in managing complexity and organizational change. As a consultant, Marc specializes in Strategy Development, Enterprise Architecture and Alignment, Enterprise Program Management and Business Process Improvement. He has been teaching on multiple occasions on effective business change and has been a speaker on various Enterprise Architecture and Business Rules Conferences. Marc holds Bachelor level degrees in Economics, Languages, and Computer Science and has a Cum Laude Masters degree in Organization and Management. He is now working on his Ph.D. on the subject of Enterprise Architecture. Events |
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Adriana Debska-Gil
has an MBA degree. She has worked for telcos of 400, 4000 and 40.000
employees - always in the field of process management, on its conceptual
as well as on the operational side. Adriana started her career 10 years
ago with the American management consulting which was one of the first
to offer process knowledge on the Polish market. She is a passionate
trainer. She has gained the reputation of courageous advocate of process
approach. A few months ago she took position of the process leader in
the biggest European telecom CRM implementation. She recently started
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Rob Eve
is the Operations Director at for BPMG.org (www.bpmg.org).
He describes himself as a “practitioner” in BPM and Change Management.
This practical experience has been gained working within transport, utility
and the Public Sector in local government and the emergency services throughout
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John has been in the IT industry for more than 25 years. During that time he has worked directly for, and with a number of the leading companies in the oil, banking and customer service industries in both Europe and North America. John has held a wide range of positions during this time but his main subject of focus has been the automation of repetitive and complex business and computer systems tasks through the application of software. John has spent the
last nine years working with Pegasystems, a leader in the application
of rule-driven business process automation, and currently holds the position
of technical director. The majority of his time is spent working with
prospects, customers and partners to ensure the Pegasystems technology
is both a good technical and business fit within their systems and business
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David Feineman currently works for BP America in Houston, where he is the Process Architect on the Field of the Future project. Previous assignments include work as the information services manager on major deepwater development project; as an internal global consultant for upstream IT based in London; managing IT for the worldwide upstream technology organization; acting as an external reviewer for the EC on E&P business process analysis; managing projects at Alyeska Pipeline; and supervising Prudhoe Bay reservoir characterization. Prior to BP, he worked for Phillips Petroleum in their Applied Research and Exploration Projects group, and Williams Brothers Engineering Company. He is a member of the BPMG. Events |
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Joshua Fox serves as Senior Software Architect at Unicorn Solutions, working on the Unicorn system for semantic information management. Fox's previous experience includes the design and development of large-scale distributed Internet systems for collaboration over the Internet. He has published and lectured extensively in the field of software engineering and data management. Events |
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Joe Francis has more than 10 years experience in the information technology field with Compaq, now Hewlett-Packard. As Director of IT Business Process Management, he has led more than a dozen successful broad-scaled process initiatives, including the assessment of supply chain systems supporting HP and Compaq’s merger planning and management, the largest IT merger in business history. Joe is chairman of the Board of Directors of the Supply-Chain Council, a global corporation applying and advancing the state-of-the-art in supply-chain management systems and practices. He graduated from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) with a bachelor's degree in applied engineering and English. Events |
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Ian has been the inspiration behind the growth of the company from the start of the organisation. He has strong insight into the IT sector and the BPM market. Ian left a 10 year career as an Associate Partner at Andersen Consulting (Accenture) to start Nimbus in 1997. During his time at AC Ian managed high risk, high profile projects at Rolls-Royce, the RAF, British Aerospace and British Airways. He was also seconded to the DSS as IT Director responsible for 500 staff with a budget of £40m. Events |
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Professional Experience: Roland Grossrieber in 1994 worked in the Division "Product Development and Processes": Projects ion the field of insurance product development 1996 Division "Products": Implementation process "Product Development", Process Manager. In 1999 he became area Manager "Business Processes" at the division "Business Development"Conception and implementation of Mobiliar's process management, business architecture, business modelling methodology and Business Process Engineering as Senior Consultant. In 2001 he became Area Manager "Business Processes & Architecture" at the IT-division Process Owner of the processes "Business IT alignment", "Business Process Engineering", "Enterprise Architecture". Events |
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Ross Harling is managing director and co-founder of Atticus, a company that works at the complex boundaries and interactions of people, information and process. Since 1996 Ross and his colleagues have researched and developed new methods and internal competencies for process improvement, organisational change and outsourcing with a number of leading commercial and public sector organisations. Events |
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Paul Harmon is the Executive Editor of Business Process Trends, the most comprehensive on-line resource for managers and practitioners interested in all aspects of business process change, the co-founder and principal consultant of Enterprise Alignment a consulting company dedicated to helping companies implement business process change, and the author of Business Process Change: A Manager’s Guide to Improving, Redesigning and Automating Processes, published in 2003. Mr. Harmon is an internationally recognized consultant, author, and speaker who has consistently advocated for the development of a corporate process architecture and the creation of a coordinated business process change strategy. Events
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Norrie Henderson
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Jane Hooper has worked on change implementation programs for the past 10 years. She launched StepChange Training 6 years ago, which develops and delivers learning and coaching programmes to help organisations and individuals to achieve change successfully. She also works as a consultant, and has spoken at conferences on the subject of Cultural Change. Jane takes an innovative approach to learning, focusing on tailoring change learning to match the client’s culture, using drama and other interactive techniques to break down boundaries and inspire new ways of thinking. Her clients include DHL, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Marks & Spencer and Barclays. Events |
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Doug Kirkpatrick is a full-time executive coach and human resources consultant. He has extensive experience with legal compliance, compensation systems, selection and retention processes, employee benefits, performance metrics, and 360-degree feedback systems. His twenty-year business career has been primarily spent with The Morning Star Company, a world leader in the food industry, as a financial controller and human resources executive. Events |
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David Le Brocquy
has over 20 years business and technology consulting experience both with
VISION Consulting and with Accenture. David
is an expert in Commitment-based Management, a methodology that puts customers
at the centre of all systems and process design. He has led projects in
Ireland, the UK, the US, and has worked with a broad range of clients
in Financial Services, and elsewhere, including: Barclays Capital, Deutsche
Bank, Bank of Ireland, Allied Irish Bank, NOVA/US Bancorp, Warner Music
Group, Intelligent Finance and National Power. In bringing about significant
bottom-line results, David focuses on re-designing the core processes,
roles and technologies of the enterprise using Commitment-based Design,
one of the most powerful design and management approaches in use today. Events |
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Nick has worked at the National Assembly for Wales for 4 years, previously working in the utilities sector. He joined the Assembly to work on an innovative project to provide a new solution for managing grants and subsidy payments. He is currently Head of IT of the Common Agriculture Policy Management Division. Events |
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Kathy Long
is a member of the Process Renewal
Group, a company committed to bringing performance improvement to
organisations through the transformation of their business and information
management processes. She has over fifteen years of experience assisting
customers with understanding and improving their business processes. She
has conducted reengineering projects in Events |
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David is a change professional with a wide range of experience in both business and operational activity and an in-depth knowledge of business analysis, business process management and project management techniques and their application. An outgoing individual who works with integrity, reliability and a keen eye towards innovation, always willing to challenge all aspects of business organisation in the search for effective change. His role in the BPMG is to keep its members at the leading edge in the field of professional business process training and development. David is able to integrate rapidly into new business environments, mix well, communicate effectively and deliver professional development solutions for those involved in business change. He has had considerable success in developing and implementing "qualification" and "business needs based" training and performance improvement strategies based around Continuing Professional development programmes. This has culminated in the development and delivery of Advanced Professional Qualifications in Business Analysis, Business Process Management and the "Initiative in Change Management". David relishes the challenge of change implementation, utilising his wide technical experience and knowledge of business improvement methodologies with a keen eye towards practical innovation in change-focussed training and development. He has authored several articles on Business Analysis, the relationship between Business Analysis and Project Management and the role of the Business Analyst in bridging the gap between IT and its business clients. Events |
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Mark McGregor is a Council Member BPMG.org (www.bpmg.org) and Vice President of Business Strategy at MEGA International. He is a frequent writer on the topics of Business Process and Enterprise Architecture and publishes monthly columns on both BPMG.org and BPTrends.com. He also recently published a paper on “Enterprise Business Process Management” which looks at the convergence of Business Process and Enterprise Architecture and the management and people issues that surround these issues. Mark has previously worked with a number of players in the Enterprise Architecture market, including Adaptive and Popkin where he held executive positions and also with Proforma Corp. Events |
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Derek Miers founded Enix in 1992 to provide strategy and technology consulting to astute blue chip commercial organisations, vendors and system integrators. Over the years he has developed unique perspectives on the use of BPM and other process-oriented technologies ranging from understanding and modelling processes to actively supporting them through modern BPMS environments, enterprise content management and Web Services. Derek is the author and publisher of Process Product Watch – a detailed, evaluation level guide to BPM tools and technologies. Events |
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Jan Popkin's name is synonymous with the development of enterprise architecture technology used by Fortune 500 companies worldwide to understand how their underlying information technology aligns to their business processes and goals. Popkin is CEO and founder of Popkin Software, a leading provider of powerful, flexible enterprise architecture tools and services, and one of the leading experts on using enterprise architecture tools to promote collaboration, interoperability and agility. Popkin's flagship product, System Architect, is the first fully integrated enterprise tool to integrate business goals and processes, data, and systems into single conceptual framework that supports standards such as Zachman, TOGAF and C4ISR. Events |
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Richard Porter. Global Application Architect. As part of BAT's central IT strategy group, Richard is developing the application strategy for the group. He has been with BAT for a year, having joined from Accenture. Operating within 180 markets and with manufacturing operations in more than 60 of them, BAT has a diverse portfolio of applications supporting the processes across the group. The "Blueprint" team at BAT is engaging with the markets to get more from the investment made already and to focus the future spend. Events |
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David Pultorak is president of Pultorak & Associates (www.pultorak.com), where he applies his 18 years of experience helping organizations design and improve IT-enabled service processes. Mr. Pultorak has contributed to IT process frameworks, including ITIL and MOF. Mr. Pultorak holds a Masters degree from the University of Pennsylvania in IT and Organizational Science, and has been an adjunct professor, most recently at Philadelphia University. His latest publications include a "MOF: a Pocket Guide" (Van Haren 2003), and "The Definitive Guide to IT Management for the Adaptive Enterprise" (Real Time Publishers 2004). Events |
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Jon Pyke is a Chartered Information Systems Practitioner and a member of the British Computer Society. Jon served as Chief Technology Officer and main board director for over 10 years before taking on the current role as Chief Strategy Consultant to the PLC Board. Jon has over 25 years experience in the IT industry, and is active in a number of standard bodies. He is a founder and the current Chair of the Workflow Management Coalition and a Director of the Association of Information Systems Special Interest Group on Process Automation and Management. Events |
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Jog Raj's migration to the IT arena has been from a business/commercial background. This affords him the opportunity to see IT projects from the business user community viewpoint without the mentality of technology for technology's sake. His approach is one of a practical and pragmatic nature rather than theoretical and idealistic. Jog has first-hand experience in the successful implementation of numerous Business Process Re-engineering programs. Events |
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Dr Katy Ring is Practice Leader, Outsourcing within Ovum’s IT Services analyst group. She specialises in advising the IT services, software, and communications sectors on business issues and market implications for innovative products and services. For the past nine years, Katy has worked as an industry consultant helping suppliers in the software and services industry position new products and services. Katy has also written a number of Ovum reports including: Utility computing – time to shake up the data centre; Hosted services in the UK: a market driven by public sector investment; Business Process Managament: a Systems Solution to Crisis; Application Service Providers: Opportunities and Risks; Enterprise Application Integration: Making the Right Connections; Componentware - Building it, Buying it, Selling It ; Distributed Objects: Creating the Virtual Mainframe; Network Computers: Risks and Rewards for Business. Before joining Ovum, Katy spent eight years commenting on the software and computing industries in her roles as the founding editor of the respected journal Software Futures, and as deputy editor at Computergram International. Katy is a regular speaker at conferences and events around the world. Events |
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Dennis Rohan has 25 years consulting experience. He is Principal and Managing Partner, Rohan and Associates. His responsibilities include management consulting to service, industrial, health care and governmental organizations in areas of strategic planning, tactical strategies, business process management systems, productivity and quality improvement, management development, management counseling, coaching, mentoring, performance assessment and measurement, strategic and operations planning, human resources management and forensic psychology. He developed Alliance-Building, Partnering and Team Development performance improvement processes. He created TPDS business process management system model, architecture, processes, guidelines and procedures. Events |
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Ronald G. Ross is Co-Founder and Principal of Business Rule Solutions, LLC (www.BRSolutions.com). BRS provides workshops, consulting services, publications, and methodology supporting business analysis, business rules, and rule management. At BRS, Mr. Ross co-develops ProteusTM, its landmark business rules methodology, which features numerous innovative business rule techniques including the popular RuleSpeak™ (available free through www.BRCommunity.com). These are the latest offerings in a 30-year career that has consistently featured creative, business-driven solutions. Mr. Ross also serves as Executive Editor of www.BRCommunity.com and its flagship on-line publication, Business Rules Journal. He is a regular columnist for the Journal’s Commentary section which also features John Zachman, Chris Date and Terry Halpin. BRCommunity.com, hosted and sponsored by BRS, is a vertical community for professionals working with business rules and related areas. Mr. Ross was formerly Editor of the Data Base Newsletter from 1977 to 1998. Mr. Ross is recognized as the “father of business rules.” He serves as Co-Chair of the Business Rule Forum Conference. He was a charter member of the Business Rules Group in the 1980s, and was a co-editor of its watershed 2000 paper, “Organizing Business Plans: The Standard Model for Business Rule Motivation.” He is also active in the OMG Business Rules SIG. Events |
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Dr. Anne Salètes has held since 1993 management positions in the Informatics functions of the different business units of F. Hoffmann – La Roche (Vitamins, Diagnostics and Pharmaceuticals). Assignments included SAP R/3 implementation, Y2K programme management and Euro conversion. Since 2002, she has focussed on web content management and information flows within the company. Prior to her move to Life Sciences, her career focussed on Solid State Physics, including a number of engagements in international programmes (European Community, European Space Agency), speaking at specialized conferences. Anne Salètes is a doctor in Solid State Physics and has an MBA on Strategy, Innovation and Information Technology. Events |
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Martin Sharp is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer and holds the position of Director Consultancy Services with Mega International Ltd. Martin began his career as a graduate apprentice at the shipbuilder Vosper Thornycoft (UK) Ltd and managed the implementation of radically improved design and manufacturing processes through the use of CAD/CAM technology. This practical background in a rapidly changing business has ensured that throughout his 20 years in the business improvement industry he has always kept a feet on the ground approach to solving problems. Recent consulting assignments of note are a year spent with British American Tobacco working on their Supply Chain, two years with Airbus improving the A380 Design processes and 18 months with Transco on Asset Management process improvement. Martin has used many process modelling tools over the years but decided that Mega gave him a tool that was designed to deliver real business benefit quickly, hence joining Mega International in early 2003. Events |
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William Sillery is a consultant with First Consulting Group (FCG), specializing in emerging technologies and their practical implementation. Based out of the London office he has great experience in the design, development and implementation of information management solutions throughout the life sciences market. Mr. Sillery has been with the FCG for three years, two of which have been spent with the life sciences practice following his transfer from the healthcare practice. Prior to joining FCG Bill worked for three years as a consultant with Pareto Consulting: the leading IM&T consulting firm working within the UK healthcare and government market. Events |
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Graeme Simsion was the founder and principal of Simsion Bowles and Associates, an Australian business systems consultancy employing some 70 staff in three states. He sold the business in 1999, and is currently an independent consultant and senior fellow with the University of Melbourne. He has led numerous assignments in business planning, business process design and information systems strategy. He is the author of a book on data management and was principal author of the Australian Computer Society’s certification program in information systems planning and management. Events |
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Howard Smith is Chief Technology Officer (Europe) of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) and co-chair of the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI.org). With more than 24 years in the IT industry, he is a sought after speaker and advisor. His work in predicting and shaping technology at the intersection with business led him to take an active role in the development and application of Business Process Modeling Language (BPML) and supporting Business Process Management Systems (BPMS). He is currently researching the application of business process management to corporate sustainability, innovation and growth, for which he has global research and development responsibility at CSC. He is the author of two books, Business Process Management: The Third Wave, and IT Doesn't Matter: Business Processes Do. Events |
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JJ Snella has a PhD in Economic Sciences « econometrics & statistics» - Université of Geneva; 1980; Master of Research and teaching in “Organisation and Computers” Geneva University; 1985 – Consultant IBM Research Center New York; 1989 - Expert Consultant in Organisation C-Log SA Suisse. In 1998 he founded and became the CTO of C-Log International. Events |
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Andrew Spanyi is the Managing Director of Spanyi International Inc., a consulting and training company that operates in the field of organizational and business process design. He is the author of the recently released book Business Process Management is a Team Sport: Play It to Win! Andrew has nearly two decades of experience in working with executive teams at major corporations. His current practice focuses on assisting executive teams in transforming the traditional way they tend to think about their business. Events |
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James Stokes is highly respected for his outstanding coaching and training abilities. Working with senior managers and boards of directors he challenges current thinking and coaches new, more effective ways of behaving. His clients include Saatchi & Saatchi, Procter & Gamble, RAC Group, EMAP Publications and Associate News. Events |
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Steve
Towers is currently Chairman of the Business Process Management Group
(BPMG.org) which he co-founded in 1992. He has two
decades of business consultancy and project management experience involving
mission-critical and key change management projects with leading companies
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