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"The course was excellent. It has greatly broadened my knowledge of Business Process Architecture."

Dr Colin Hand, Information Architect

"Excellent course. Roger really is an expert in this field and the course provided the right balance of theory and practical examples. There was lots of interaction to help you practice the techniques and some real quick wins you can take and use straight away."

Wendy Gell, Principal Business Analyst, Skandia

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Matthieu Maeselle, Process Analyst, Belgian Railways

"Excellent overview of business process management. (Speaker was) very knowledgeable with lots of examples based on experience."

Corrine Thomas, Global Business Analyst, Vodafone Group

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John Godfrey, Operations Manager, Black Horse

"Provided extremely relevant and pragmatic advice. Roger Burlton has an excellent combination of knowledge and experience."

Tim Tayler, Process Model Manager, Ministry of Defence

"Superb- kept audience attention for 100% of the time. Very logical and practical. Very methodical and easy to follow."

Alistair Masson, Business Process Analysis, Vodafone Corporate Limited.

"An excellent thought evoker. An active, enthusiastic approach."

Michael Robertson, Business Systems Analyst, Sun Direct

"Extremely relevant. I gained full understanding, Roger fully explained the material."

D Morse, Customer Services Manager, HSBC (Midland Life)

3-Day Seminar and Workshop

Building and Using a Business Process Architecture

       
Register On-line:
20-22 February 2012, London
8-10 October 2012, London
   
Related Seminar:
Working with Business Processes: Discovery, Assessment, Mapping, Analysis and Design
Alec Sharp

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Overview
This seminar provides a comprehensive examination of Enterprise-level Business Process Architectures and their Alignment with other enterprise capabilities. It will deal with all the complexities of Business Process Management (BPM) at the strategic level of organizations. It emphasizes the management of business processes as assets of the enterprise. It focuses on the critical role that processes play in connecting the strategic objectives of the organization with its resources and with what people do every day. In addition to enabling you to develop a robust architecture it also will cover how to use the architecture in process centric transformation projects for leverage and alignment. It is suitable for those with or without process experience seeking to learn a set of pragmatic practices packaged into a reusable framework. The facilitated workshop sessions throughout are highly interactive and ensure experience-sharing with other delegates. Built on lessons learnt from real companies, this seminar provides you with practices to deal with the real and tough challenges you are facing. Delegates will benefit from the experience and wisdom of the world leader on the topic. Roger Burlton's book, Business Process Management: Profiting from Success will also be provided to all who attend.

Learning Objectives

  • Understand what's new in strategic level BPM practices
  • Be able to apply enterprise-wide architecture and process-level techniques that are aligned
  • Be able to set up an internal pragmatic BPM Centre of Expertise that supports the models produced
  • Learn how to sell the enterprise process value proposition and gain cross-organization acceptance
  • Be able to develop a process architecture that is the foundation for planning, budgeting, organization design, compliance, change management, SOA and the introduction of breakthrough BPMS technologies
  • Be able to use the architecture to accelerate process change projects and model development
  • See how to institute day-today process asset management and governance frameworks for continued progress

Benefits to Your Company

  • Anticipate and respond to changing business needs more quickly
  • Align all programs of business change and process governance with IT and HR strategy
  • Continuously manage processes as assets of the enterprise
  • Balance the competing requirements of functional and process stakeholders
  • Make process technology work for your organization
  • Define and manage an aligned program of change successfully
  • Run more successful change projects
  • Get all people to change with less hassle

Benefits of Attending

  • Succeed by delivering visible performance improvements
  • Become better equipped to sell the concepts upward
  • Reduce the aggravation and resistance to change
  • Develop better models and clearer communications at all levels
  • Have a flexible approach that works based on specific organizational needs and allows judgment to be exercised
  • Use a method that scales for both small and large organizations

Seminar and Workshop Outline

 The Foundation of Enterprise process thinking

  • Business performance pressures: Time, Cost and Agility
  • Integrity, Alignment and Traceability through a Process Architecture
  • Strategy, Stakeholders and Process Maps
  • BPM technologies
  • An enterprise process methodology framework
  • The fit of Six Sigma, Lean and other process techniques

 Enterprise Strategic Intent and Stakeholder Analysis: The architectural beginnings

  • Business Strategic Intent to define and align processes
  • Stakeholder Analysis (Who Cares?)
  • Vision, Goals, KPIs and Strategic Objectives (The Enterprise Criteria)
  • Alignment and Change Criteria

      Workshop: What are the strategic and stakeholder criteria for your
      process architecture?

Process Architecture Models: The foundation for enterprise governance and process management

  • An asset lifecycle approach for developing your process architecture
  • Using Frameworks and industry reference models
  • Building a bespoke process architecture model
  • Process scoping and enterprise process mapping
  • Process / stakeholder alignment

      Workshop: What is your processes architecture map?

Process Organization, Measurement Systems and Governance

  • A Process Governance Framework
  • Ongoing Process Management up and down the organization chart
  • The Matrix revisited: optimising process and functional structures
  • Responsibilities and incentives for stewardship/ownership/management
  • Process-Managed Scorecards, Alignment and Traceability

Dealing with Information, Knowledge and Business Rules

  • Cross-referencing Information to the Process Architecture Map
  • Combining knowledge learning and process feedback
  • Separating Business Rules from Processes for Agility

 Aligning Enterprise Capabilities (Technological, Human and Facility)

  • Process-Driven Enterprise Architecture and the Zachman Framework
  • The Process Architecture as the foundation for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
  • Business Process Management Systems (BPMS)
  • Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
  • Technology Standards
  • Human competency alignment
  • Facility requirements

 Prioritizing Changes and Establishing a Transformation Portfolio

  • Value and performance-driven process change prioritization
  • Rationalizing existing initiatives
  • Re-aligning budgets and resources
  • Tools for Managing Process and Programme Knowledge

      Workshop: What are your priority processes for renewal?

 Leveraging Process Architecture into a Process Improvement Project

  • Determining Process Vision, Goals and Objectives
  • Scoping the Process Project
  • Ensuring Traceability with the Architecture
  • Understanding process modeling standards, documentation and notations
  • Gathering Information and Modeling the Current Process
  • Analyzing the Current Process
  • Redesigning the process: Innovation
  • Modeling the 'To-Be' state
  • Validating the design

      Workshop: Develop an aligned Process Scoping model and project charter

Human Change Management: Perceptions and Politics

  • Understanding concerns and fears of Executives and Staff
  • A method and tools for navigating fear
  • Incentives and evaluation systems
  • A Communications strategy

      Workshop: What are your Stakeholders' Concerns and how will you
      communicate to mitigate them?

 Building a Business Process Centre of Expertise

  • PCoE Support Services Catalog
  • PCoE support roles and required competencies?
  • Gaining credibility and trust
  • PCoE versus governance

 Summary:

  • Comparing your status to a Multidimensional Maturity Model
  • Critical Factors revisited

Audience
This Business Process Architectural seminar is the global benchmark for enterprise Process Management from the leader in the field. It is a must for Business and IT Strategists, Business and Systems Analysts, Executives, Managers and Professionals involved in process-centric and business architecture oriented organizations, process-based change, and automation of process solutions.

  • Business and IT Architects
  • Senior Business Analysts
  • Business and IT Strategists
  • CIOs, Management and IT Consultants
  • Change Management Team Members
  • Business Process Management Teams
  • Line of Business Managers and Executives
  • Project and Programme Managers
  • Quality Programme Professionals

Special Features
This seminar is unique in that it is built on lessons learned, both good and bad, from real companies, real processes and real projects. It provides you with the latest practices to deal with real and tough issues. It exposes what successful process-centric organizations have learned about what works and what does not. It shows how a pragmatic business architecture addresses all aspects of change concurrently. It is logical. It is practical. It is comprehensive. It makes sense. It makes you think, It works!

It is continuously updated with the newest lessons learned and consistently attracts experienced professionals and managers from a variety of industries providing significant opportunity for interaction and knowledge-sharing.

The seminar's working sessions allow participants to practice key techniques in small workgroups.

Materials
As well as the seminar documentation, all delegates will also receive a free copy of Business Process Management, by Roger Burlton.

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Speaker Biography

Roger Burlton

Roger T Burlton is the co-founder of BPTrends Associates, 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 IRM's annual BPM Europe event. To date, he has conducted over six hundred seminars and has presented to over forty thousand professionals. His seminars have been translated for diverse audiences around the globe.

Seminar Fee
£1,445 + VAT (£289) = £1,734

Hotel Venue and Accommodation
20-22 February 2012
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Paddington Basin, London, W2 1LA
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8-10 October 2012
Venue: TBA London

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In-House Training
If you require a quote for running this course in-house, please contact us with the following details:

  • Subject matter and/or speaker required
  • Estimated number of delegates
  • Location (town, country)
  • Number of days required (if different from the public course)
  • Preferred date

Please contact:
Jeanette Hall
E-mail: jeanette.hall@irmuk.co.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8866 8366
Fax: +44 (0)1923 828 770

Speaker: Roger Burlton
Process Renewal Group
Roger Burlton

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Media Sponsors
BPTrends
Business Process Incubator

Business Analysis Series
Mastering the Requirements Process

Mastering Business Analysis

Business Rules and Decision Analysis

Working with Business Processes: Discovery, Mapping, Redesign and Requirements

Building and Using a Business Process Architecture


Multiple Seminar Booking Discount
Attend more than one of our seminars and you will be entitled to the following discounts:

  • 2nd course 10%
  • 3rd course 15%
  • 4th course 20%
  • 5th+ course 25%

Group Booking Discount
20% discount for 5 or more registrations made at the same time.

We regret that this offer cannot be used in conjunction with the Multiple Seminar Discount or any other discount.

Special Feature
Attendees receive a copy of

Business Process Management, Profiting from Process
Roger Burlton

Business Process Management, Profiting from Process

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Related Book
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Related Conferences

Business Process Management Conference Europe 2012 – co-located with the Enterprise Architecture Conference Europe 2012, 18-20 June, London. Roger Burlton will be the BPM Conference Chair.

Business Analysis Conference Europe 2011 26-28 September, London

CDYou can purchase the Conference Slides on CD from the last conference - these include all of the tutorial and conference sessions for each event, for more information on these please click here.