By: Peter Fingar, Executive Partner, Greystone Group
What do GE, JetBlue Airways, Progressive Insurance, Amazon and the Virgin Group have in common? By making deep structural changes--made possible by business process innovation--these companies have transformed the very ways they operate their businesses, changing the game in their industries. Indeed, there's a new breed of fierce competitors on the block ready to engage your company in extreme competition. Are you ready?
Why is it that, given two companies with approximately the same capital assets and same number of skilled employees, one struggles and the other grows profits?
By: Jon Huntress, Special Events Correspondent, BPM Institute
The Goddard Space Flight Center at NASA uses more than $525 million of technical and administrative accountable government property in the performance of its mission.
Business Process Management improves business and IT alignment by converting business requirements into IT implementations. Join us in this webinar to learn about new trends in Business Process Management and how you can benefit from business process integration. You'll also learn how to model and compose portable business processes on top of heterogeneous applications using Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) with Oracle BPEL Process Manager and Popkin software.
There is significant increased interest in applying Business Process Management (BPM) technology to solve business problems. Not surprisingly, an increasing number of technical and business people alike are asking how to take BPM applications to the next level. This presentation will outline the pros and cons of the two principal methods of taking BPM from small-scale departmental applications to enterprise level applications; the bubble-up and the enterprise-view approaches. The following aspects of each approach will be addressed: scope of effort, key considerations, benefits and pitfalls.
Comprehensive process design is the foundation for improved efficiencies in process management practices. Aligning the IT Portfolio to the Business Strategy helps deliver value to the business and support an agile enterprise.
By: Tammy Adams, Managing Partner, Chaosity LLC and Jan Means, President, Resource Advantage, Inc.
Change isn’t easy. It’s not something most of us seek out. But for any company who intends to remain healthy and competitive in an increasingly global and electronic marketplace, change is continual and necessary. Market downturn or other external factors may force us to become more efficient at what we do. Other times the need for change comes from within – a response to new product or service offerings, system enhancements or reorganizations, for example.
“As the business grows, it gets increasingly difficult to know what is going on
Contributed by: Andrew Spanyi, Faculty Member, DBizInstitute.org and Managing Director, Spanyi International
By: Jon Huntress, Special Events Correspondent, BPM Institute
Taking BPM applications to the next level involves more than buying a good BPM solution. The technology is important, but two things will make or break a BPM deployment. The first is creating customer value through the company's enterprise-wide business processes and the second is understanding and managing the processes at the organizational and actual process activity level. To accomplish these the mindset of the whole organization must change.
Andrew Spanyi is the managing director of Spanyi International, a consulting and training company that operates in the field of organization and process design. He has worked with executive teams at global organizations assisting them to change the way they think about their business. He is the author of ‘Business Process Management is a Team Sport, Play It to Win!’
Don't miss this candid discussion with Jon Pyke, BPM veteran, Chair of the Workflow Management Coalition (
www.wfmc.org), the former Chief Technology Officer for Staffware prior to its acquisition by Tibco and currently the Sr. VP of Technology Strategy at Global 360.
What Oracle, SAP and others won't tell you about leveraging your existing application investments
The excitement in business process management has settled back down to the practical reality of improving performance from your business processes. Critical to achieve this mandate is to have a program and plan for process improvement. This educational session will help you understand how to apply BI and Performance Management to your business processes.
What Oracle, SAP and others won't tell you about leveraging your existing application investments
For those assessing Service-Oriented Architectures as a direction for their company, this Webinar is the perfect opportunity to gain an insight into what skills, knowledge and investment is required to develop an enterprise quality SOA. The SOA Blueprint is a model for analyzing your company’s readiness for developing service-based software. SOA is more than just Web Services, the Blueprint investigates areas of supporting readiness, such as security, governance, policy creation and management, network architecture, etc.
