BPM is more important today than ever before. Only the most agile enterprise stands a chance in today's constantly-changing business environment. Many are struggling, even more are falling behind. Janelle Hill shares Gartner’s perspective on the top BPM trends and opportunities for 2013.
Janelle will also share's the results of a Gartner survey in which chief-level executives identified the approaches they are using to achieve their business objectives.
Implementing a proactive and risk-based information technology (IT) governance, risk management, and regulatory compliance (GRC) approach enables companies to better manage compliance costs and streamline compliance and business processes through increased automation.
Over the past few years, organizations have broadened the role BPM software plays in process improvement. Five years ago, BPM projects centered on human-centric workflow designed and executed with process models. Since then, lines of business continue to demand software that is more adaptive to how they work, and vendors have responded with increasingly mature offerings.
This Red Hat sponsored IDC white paper explores the evolution of BPM, how an organization's basic requirements are changing in the face of the broadening scope of BPM software, and how Red Hat competes in this space with JBoss Enterprise BRMS 5.3 and its recent acquisition of Polymita.
I’d like to make the case why business architects should operate outside of enterprise architecture (EA).
First, business architects are “big thinkers” and more business savvy than their EA counterparts. Their cultures...
A year ago, I wrote a BA Bulletin article entitled “A Business Architecture Body of Knowledge.” In that article we examined the grassroots evolution of a body of knowledge and early signs of adoption. We spoke of selected...
The drum beats are echoing across the Global 2000 about the value of business architecture, and more specifically business capability mapping. Business capabilities – in other words “What a business does” – are...
Business and Information Technology (hereafter referred to as business-IT) alignment is so passé. Welcome the (relatively) new concept called Business-IT aggregation. The phrase “business aggregation” sometimes...
Atul Bhatt, Enterprise Architect, Wells Fargo & Company
Business Architecture (BA) is no longer just an emerging discipline or an “interesting concept”. It is increasingly being leveraged by enterprises to provide tangible value. And within Wells Fargo, Business...
Two of my biggest passions are business architecture and participating in endurance events like an Ironman® or an ultramarathon. Having excelled in both over the years taught me a few lessons. At the end of the...
Ralph Whittle, Enterprise Business Architect, Independent Consultant
How does a Business Architecture (BA) team determine the value streams for their enterprise? Is there a suitable reference available in the public domain of the Web for the team to analyze? Many are familiar with...
In this modern era of business, business architecture as a discrete discipline of business management, has gained substantial traction. Business architecture approaches and methods are evolving and maturing rapidly....
Business architecture helps portfolio managers prioritize IT-based projects by mapping projects to a business capability model. A capability model can aggregate what’s important, urgent, and doable in an organization...
Ralph Whittle, Enterprise Business Architect, Independent Consultant
Some enterprises are considering or have already taken bold initiatives to better manage their architectural debt. Architectural debt is a colorful metaphor for describing when a product, process, application, or...
Companies worldwide have for generations sought to better manage their key business processes to improve efficiency, insight into their impact, and to achieve greater...
Embracing a set of methods and standard approaches are critical for accelerating BPM adoption across an organization. This advanced course is designed to expose the student to a broad array of methods used during different phases of a...
United Airlines discusses initial challenges when you start a project and the things that the tool and methodologies do to make it work. Learn how and why United Airlines chose the tool and...
Join us for this LIVE webcast to share your opinion on our 2010 editorial calendar, find out how to contribute to the Business Architecture Body of Knowledge and learn about the new benefits you...
Business Architecture is a key decision tool for organisations and could be thought of in a similar way as GPS systems—being a ‘navigation system for business’. It allows static blueprints to be...
For decades, corporate executives and department managers have complained about the frequent budget overruns and schedule delays of complex IT business planning and transformation projects. The...
As enterprises continue to deploy business architecture capabilities, the need for a consistent, cohesive understanding of business architecture is growing increasingly critical. Frameworks,...
TELUS is a leading national telecommunications company in Canada, with $8.4 billion of annual revenue and 10.4 million customer connections including 4.7 million wireless subscribers, 4.6 million...
