The core of a business’s integrity lies within its policies and rules and their management. The rules must be separated business processes if an organization is to know what the rules are, where the rules guide business decisions, and anticipated business impact when rules change. This presentation offers a practical approach for integrating a business rules approach, especially where BPM and BRE technology come together.
All organizations are process driven and most of the processes are paper or e-mail based. One of the most process intense groups within a manufacturing company is the Technical/Engineering group. In this presentation, Todd Wilson, Manager of Technical Systems for Cooper Tire & Rubber Company will discuss leveraging Business Process Management (BPM) to get a handle on critical engineering processes. From Change Orders to Process Development, Wilson will share how Cooper Tire is using BPM to organize, prioritize, and improve processes to gain efficiencies and competitive advantage.
BPM refers to both a business strategy and a set of technologies to enable the strategy. Too often, the technology choices are made before the business is even ready to begin. Business leaders must define their BPM strategy, set their objectives, determine what areas should be optimized and which must be compromised. This presentation explores how to strike the right balance between process improvements that technology can deliver and what improvements the business is ready to accept.
Process Modeling is the key to developing the real-time, agile organization. Currently, more and more organizations are striving to improve performance and quality while reducing costs. In order to make this happen, organizations have to have a much better understanding of how their key business processes work. This talk will focus on how business process modeling needs to fit within the entire strategic management framework.
As part of a new business initiative, Dental Benefit Providers, a division of UnitedHealth Group, created an outsourcing service for the repricing of dental claims from other insurance companies. Due to Service Level Commitments, the existing system in DBP was determined to be inadequate. This session describes how DBP was able to deploy a BPM solution to create and implement a brand-new automated claims repricing system within 30 days. It will also touch on the lessons learned throughout the process, alternatives considered, and the final results of the initiative a year later.
Zurich North America embarked on a large program initiative to replace its claim processing system. The business transformation and the majority of the system benefit were driven by a "smart" system concept. This presentation discusses how the new claim system imbeds best practices, monitors and enforces compliance to those practices, and provides a framework that allows the business to respond quickly to the changing competitive and regulatory environment.
The side by side comparison is making a comeback you can line up anything from cars to televisions and compare them side by side. So why not do the same with vendor solution providers, well why not? This panel will allow attendees an opportunity to ask solution providers questions about their solutions live and hear what they have to say and how they stack up against the competition sitting right next to them. Moderated by industry analyst Doculabs this session is sure to help you see where the similarities and differences are across BPM products and providers.
While they sound the same on the surface, BPM software solutions don't all do the same thing. Each offering is optimized for a specific set of processes, integration requirements, human interface requirements, exception handling requirements, and performance management requirements, and each makes specific assumptions about the roles and required skills of process designers. Using illustrations from leading BPM offerings, this talk shows how to find the software that fits your particular needs.
This presentation discusses various perspectives on emerging business models including Business Integration vs. Dis-Integration, Web Services, the demise of true consulting, etc. Diverse views will be synthesized into a competitive future landscape. This presentation will challenge its audience to consider what their firms might look like ten years out, with an additional mental stretch if this view is not to their liking. The case will be made for an imperative to shift into an agile process technology anticipating what tools, capabilities, and concepts will be required to survive.
Business success today is more difficult than ever. "Changing the way we implement on our business objectives" is the key focus of Irene Dec's presentation. Many business objectives will never be achieved, even after spending millions of dollars.
