Tracks
4 Tracks
| Track A: The Beginner's Guide to BPM | Your company’s ability to weather the storm depends on your ability to cut costs and improve productivity. Sessions in this track are aimed at business and IT practitioners who are beginning their business process management (BPM) efforts and are looking to accelerate time-to-results in order to ensure survival in this challenging economic environment. Attend these sessions if you are just beginning BPM and are grappling with the following questions: Is your organization struggling to gain control over its operational inefficiencies and measure its business activities? Are your business opportunities curtailed by rigidity in both your business practices and IT systems? Are you thinking about applying BPM disciplines but don’t know where to start? Armed with frameworks and tactical guidelines, you’ll be better able to build a business case for BPM, develop and set up a BPM plan, and get your first project going. Through best practice presentations, case studies and client panels, attendees learn how to successfully lay the foundation required for sustaining BPM efforts. | A |
| Track B: Intermediate BPM for Business Practitioners | Sessions in this track address the question, "How can I use business process management as a discipline to help my company grow in challenging economic times?" This track focuses on BPM as a discipline and targets attendees from organizations at the intermediate levels of the Gartner BPM Maturity Model (establishing intraprocess and interprocess automation and control). These organizations have begun their business process modeling efforts and have also begun to identify process owners, apply business metrics, and move their organization closer to automating and controlling processes with the objective of growing their business. Understand how to exploit the process visibility that BPM brings to your organization. Learn how using key metrics and mining business intelligence sets the stage for business growth. Sessions build on the change management, governance and organizational transformation research presented in “The Beginner's Guide to BPM" track discipline. | B |
| Track C: Intermediate BPM for IT Practitioners | Sessions in this track address the question, "How can I use business process management technologies to help my company grow in challenging economic times?" This track targets more technically savvy attendees from organizations at the intermediate levels of the Gartner BPM Maturity Model (establishing intraprocess and interprocess automation and control). These organizations are process-aware and are actively automating end-to-end selected business processes within their organization. This track delves further into the use of business process analysis (BPA) tools, business process management suites (BPMSs), and business rule management systems (BRMSs). Sessions show how to incorporate BPM into your organization and infrastructure and probe into how to best apply SOA, BI and BAM to BPM solutions as well as the organizational change techniques to sustain your BPM effort. Attendees of this technical track will gain an understanding of the major vendors and technologies that will implement the infrastructure portion of a BPM strategy. | C |
| Track D: Advanced BPM Disciplines | Sessions in this track are geared toward business and IT practitioners interested in learning about advanced business process management disciplines and technologies for transforming their business and exploiting key opportunities that their competitors can't address in the current challenging economy. This track uses novel analyst research to confront the organizational and technology challenges facing more-mature, process-centric organizations as they transform their businesses. Here, we also take the "long view" and project how companies will use BPM disciplines and technologies in 2015. | D |
