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Ensuring BPM Project Success

This course is all about "Developing A Structured Approach for BPM Success". The course was recently updated significantly to reflect the merger of our own original material with that of John Jeston of Management by Process. John's book - "Business Process Management - Practical Guidelines to Successful Implementations" provides a robust framework for managing BPM programs.

It is best run in-house allowing delegates (usually all of those charged with running BPM projects across the enterprise) to discuss their problems and issues openly - validated and challenged by expert course leaders. The course focuses on helping the organization develop a Structured Approach to managing BPM Projects.

When run in a public forum, the workshop also delivers value as it allows individual practitioners to learn from each other. Working with others from a cross-section of industries, and taught by one of the most experienced practitioners in the field, you will gain the strategy and design ideas of other organizations who are facing similar business process challenges.

Ensuring BPM Project Success Course Overview

If you are interested in exploring your own organizational needs, contact Derek Miers (miers @ bpmfocus.org)

What You Will Learn

Within an intimate workshop setting you will learn best practices in BPM, the likely pitfalls, the methods to ensure your organization’s success, and the technology trends that will influence your decisions. At the core of “Developing A Structured Approach To BPM” is the “7FE Project Framework”. It delivers a flexible and proven methodology to ensure BPM project success (as against just how to represent the order of activities with BPMN).

The 7FE Project Framework derives from four F's and three E’s:

  • Foundations – to set up for success, BPM projects need a solid underpinning. They have to be rooted in the organization appropriately and the Launch Pad phase is designed to validate this aspect. The type of project determines the extent to which the Launch Pad references the Organization Strategy and Process Architecture phases.

  • Findings and Solutions – relate to Understanding of existing processes, and how to go about identifying suitable solutions in the Innovate Phase.

  • Fulfillment – is how the People and System Development come together to fulfill the need. Effectively, this a combination of best practices in organizational design and the role of the BPMS in project implementation.

  • Future – relates how the organization Realizes Value and delivers ongoing Sustainable Performance. These phases talk to how to encourage repeatability, embedding the innovation culture in the organization and driving continuous improvement.

  • Essentials – of Leadership, Project Management and People Change Management are vital throughout the entire project.

Along the way, each phase of the framework incorporates a number of tools and techniques (methods) that are useful in BPM projects. These include techniques for:

  • Business case development and ongoing use within projects

  • Project selection (two extensible methods)

  • How to conduct a wide range of workshops and the sorts of facilitation approaches required for each (along with target deliverables):

    • Covers engaging the Steering Committee or Executive Team through Modeling workshops(Understand Phase), Innovation workshops, to engaging Subject Matter Experts or other Stakeholders

  • Process Innovation, Creativity and Root Cause Analysis

  • Role and Organizational Design and Capacity Planning

  • Stakeholder assessment and engagement

  • Customer experience design

  • Selected Lean and Six Sigma techniques

  • Metrics framework development (linking Key Process Indicators to Business Objectives)

  • Benefits framework and process metrics assessment

  • Understanding and presenting processes to senior executives (who need a different style of presentation)

  • Validating organizational strategy and Project scope validation

  • Developing effective Process Architectures (including design patterns such as Case Handling)

  • “Hot Housing” techniques

  • Iterative BPMS development approaches

While some of these areas are not covered at great depth, the delegate is introduced to them in context of how they can be used within a BPM initiative (and provided with further references where relevant).

Who Should Attend

Managers and executives who need to understand BPM

Business Process Owners involved in organizational transformation

Change Agents responsible involved with moving toward a process-driven enterprise

Executives developing strategic plans to address the management of business events, monitoring business performance and process transformation initiatives

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