Benefits of Attending

• Today's organizations are more connected and therefore - are more likely to have change thrust upon them by external forces: partners, suppliers, competitors, regulatory agencies, political forces, constituents and global markets. Learn how to use BPM as the linchpin within your Pattern Based Strategy - stop reacting and make your organization proactive and in control of events, information, and competitive threats.
• Get concrete advice into how to grow and enhance your organization by improving business processes with BPM.
• Learn how to tackle the last frontier of un-automated processes and gain more control and accountability over unstructured, ad hoc, and dynamic processes.
• Grasp the key principles for combining business analytics with process intelligence for business activity monitoring and BPM.
• Take away tried and true techniques for getting teams of business and IT practitioners to collectively visualize and solve process problems.
• Come away with a roadmap for making the case for BPM with senior business and IT executives.
• Protect your existing application investment and learn how to factor BPM into your application strategy.
• Discover best practices for cutting through organizational politics and risk aversion that plague business process improvement projects.
• Become familiar with techniques to expand your business process improvement efforts to processes supported by outsourcers and cloud service providers.
• Learn about the different levels of BPM maturity and the benefits of each.
• Become acquainted with the different types of BPM technologies and understand what levels of BPM maturity they can deliver.
• Find out how to combine BPM and agile software development methods to improve your organization's ability to sense and respond effectively to change.

What to Expect from a Gartner Summit

Listen and view presentations from last year's Summit.

BPM Technology: Walk Before You Run
Speaker: Janelle B. Hill, Gartner
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Measuring the Business Performance of Your BPM Initiatives
Speaker: Bill Rosser, Gartner
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Dynamic BPM versus Agility: The Competitive Differentiator
Speaker: Daryl C. Plummer, Gartner
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Who Should Attend

This event is open to both Gartner clients and non-client organizations.

It is aimed at senior IT and business executives involved with BPM initiatives:

• Business and systems analysts
• Chief process officers and BPM project managers
• Business process owners
• Strategy, operations, finance, and compliance leaders
• Quality management and QA officers
• HR and change management executives

Who is Attending?

View a sample of attending organizations from 2009 Summit.
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Summit Value

Every Gartner Event is designed to give you practical, relevant, and immediately applicable ways to lower IT costs, deliver more business value with IT, and achieve greater returns from every IT investment - including the one you make with us to attend.

To understand the true value of the summit - Download the PDF.

Justification Kit

With these justification tools, we've made it as convenient as possible to justify your investment to attend and present the ROI you've received post-event.


Pre-Conference

• Customizable Letter to Your Manager: A Word template with a cost/benefit analysis.
• Top 10 Reasons to Attend a Gartner Event

During the Conference

• ROI Worksheet: A Word template for productive note-taking onsite for your sessions, Analyst One-on-One Briefings and Face-to-Face Sponsor Meetings.

Post-Conference

• Customizable Trip Report: A Word template to help you easily report your ROI from the conference.
• Post-Event Brief: A PDF that highlights what was new and notable, key takeaways, what attendees asked about, interactive polling results, exhibit showcase highlights and more.