Business Process Management
- Agile and BPM
- Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
- BPM and Digital Transformation
- BPM and Customer Experience
- BPM and IoT
- Managing By Process
- Process Portfolio Management
- Organizational Change Management
- Business Transformation• Adopting Enterprise BPM
- Business Process Governance
- Business Process Discovery and Modeling
- Building a Business Process Architecture
- Managing a business improvement project
- Implementing BPM Suites
- Selecting the Right Tools
- Process Modeling with BPMN
- Integrating Rule Engines with BPM
- The Current State of BPM Standards
- The BPM Tool Vendor Landscape
- Jump-Starting Your BPM Project
- Digital Transformation
- Low code BPM App
- BPM in the Cloud
- BPM & BPMS Case Studies: Benefits Achieved, Lessons Learned
Business Architecture
Business Architecture Value Proposition
- Business Architecture Success Stories & Case Studies
- Selling Business Architecture at Any Level
- Measuring Business Architecture’s Success: Methods and Metrics
- Demonstrating Business Architecture Value To Management
- Assessing The Business Architecture Practice
- Creating Demand for Business Architecture Services
Business Architect’s Skills and Career
- Attributes of Successful Business Architects
- Basic Skills Every Business Architect Must Have
- Thinking Paradigms for Business Architects
- The Business Architect’s Career Path
- Navigating Culture and Organizational Context
- Business Architects as Change Agents
Business Architecture Methods and Techniques
- Aligning Business Architecture with Business Strategy
- Business Architecture’s Role in Customer Experience
- Developing and Applying Value Stream Models
- Developing, Assessing, and Applying Capability Models
- Applying the Business Model Canvas
- Non-traditional Tools for Business Architecture (SWOT, Value Chain, etc.)
- Business Architecture Best and Worst Practices
Business Architecture Practice
- Business Architecture Organizational Paradigm
- Business Architecture Organizational Placement: IT or Business
- How to Find and Hire Business Architects
- Leading the Business Architecture Practice
- Staffing Models and Job Families for Business Architecture
- Kick-starting a Business Architecture Practice
- Creating a Sustainable Business Architecture Practice
Business Decision Management
Q1: Decision Modeling and BDM
Q2: BDM and Big Data Analytics
Q3: BDM and the Real-Time Enterprise
Q4: What's next in BDM technology
- What do we mean by BDM
- The relationship of business rules to decisions
- The relationship of Big Data analytics to decisions
- The nature of operational decisions vs strategic decisions
- The relationship between decisions, process and events (Joint topic with BPM and SOA)
- Decision Modeling – how it fits into Business Architecture (Joint topic with BA)
- Implementing decisions in application systems using today’s technology (Joint topic with BPM and SOA)
- What is DMN and does it matter (Joint topic with BA)
- What is BMM and does it matter (Joint topic with BA)
- The technology we need to enable BDM
Organizational Performance
- Building Effective Ownership of Business Process Improvement
- Creating a Process Centric Organization
- From Projects to Processes to Enterprise Business Process Maturity
- How BPMN builds alignment between IT and the business and creates Organization Performance
- Aligning strategy and organizational performance
- Understanding and then Increasing Business Performance at the Value Chain Level
- Integrating BPM Improvement Methodologies (.e.g., Six Sigma and Lean) with Organizational Performance
- Using metrics for analysis, redesign, and management of organizational processes
- Delivering ROI through process improvement methodologies
- Expanding the role of business and IT to include Organizational Performance
- Developing Capable Performance Architects
- Developing business analysts who see with the eyes of the business
- Bringing together BPM and Organizational Performance technology
- Guiding the Effective Integration of Measurement Systems and Tools (balanced scorecard/management dashboards) with BPM
- Integrating measurement systems, tools and software for maximum return
- Directing the future of BPM and Organizational Performance Software
Service Oriented Architecture
- Understanding Cloud Computing Architectures
- Cloud Computing Opportunities and Challenges
- Service Architecture Principles and Cloud Computing
- Designing Cloud Services for Enterprise Requirements
- Management Strategies for Cloud Computing
- Cloud Security
- Cloud Services Governance and Ownership
- Developing Domain Models for Governance of Cloud Computing Services
- Cloud Computing Case Studies: Benefits Achieved, Lessons Learned
- Business Cloud e.g. business process as a service
- Business Cloud: Bridging the Power of BPM, SOA and Cloud Computing
- The Future of Cloud Computing
- Service Providers in the Cloud Value Chain
- Modernizing Legacy Applications into a Cloud Computing Architecture
- Best Practices for Building a Comprehensive Inventory of Cloud Services
- Developing Domain Models for SOA
- Leveraging Web Services Standards for Building an SOA
- Implementing SOA for Large-scale Requirements
- Management Strategies for an SOA
- Developing a Roadmap for Migration to SOA
- Developing an ROI for Undertaking SOA Adoption
- Modernizing Legacy Applications with SOA
- Migrating to an Enterprise Service Bus
- Best Practices for Building a Comprehensive Library of Enterprise Services
- Complementing SOA with Event Driven Architecture (EDA)
- SOA and Web Services Security
- Establishing an SOA Center of Excellence
Government
- Inter-Governmental & Cross-Agency Information Sharing
- Enterprise Strategy & Transition Management
- Investment Planning & Enterprise Governance
- Capabilities Maturity Modeling (e.g., for BPM, or SOA)
- Enterprise Architecture & Federated (or Segmented) Architectures
- Performance Management and Reporting
- Business Process Modeling & Workforce Management
- Emergency Preparedness & Business Continuity
- State-, Local- & Tribal-Government Matters
