Summit Tracks
The Pragmatist's Guide to Optimizing Business Outcomes with BPM
Designed for organizations who have delivered one or more BPM projects, sessions in this track deliver pragmatic insights, based on real-world examples, to guide you in optimizing the business results your BPM teams deliver. Learn how to apply a business value framework to the work your organization does and how to drive by looking ahead at leading indicators rather than looking back at lagging indicators. Learn how to win political battles without engaging in process warfare and develop a culture of accountability, flexibility and collaboration inside your organization and with partners, suppliers, and service providers who are key to your success.
Sessions
Enabling Innovation: People, Process and Technology Intersect at the Enterprise PMO
14 March, 2012 (13:00 - 14:00)
Harnessing innovation will require the combined resources of people, process and technology which is domiciled in a small impactful group known as the EPMO. BPM techniques can prove to be a powerful enabler for PPM, and there is immense opportunity for synergy.
BPM and MDM: A "Chicken and Egg Story"
14 March, 2012 (16:15 - 17:15)
For years the IT industry has had an ongoing debate about the importance of process versus data. Rather than resolve the debate, data management professionals, business process architects and application developers have gone off in separate directions, focused on their own domains. In fact, the question was wrong in the first place. This session resolves this age-old 'chicken or the egg' debate and provides a clear action plan.
Rapid Fire: What Does it Take to Mature Your BPM Capabilities?
14 March, 2012 (17:30 - 18:00)
Organizations struggle to advance their BPM maturity beyond the processes that exist within functional silos. Advanced BPM maturity can only be achieved when BPM applies to cross-boundary processes and requires a cultural shift towards a more process-centric organization.
The Answer Is 42, But What Is The Question? – The Role Of BPA and EA in Decision Support
15 March, 2012 (08:00 - 09:00)
Process improvement, business transformation or day to day running the business all require decisions, all of which have options, outcomes and risk. BPA has important role to play in not only answering the question asked, but helping find what is the right question in the first place.
Driving Differentiation and Innovation Using BPM With a Pace-Layered Application Strategy
15 March, 2012 (10:15 - 11:15)
Organizations have heavily invested in packaged and custom applications to support and improve processes, but applications can limit process change and stifle innovation. This session illustrates how Gartner’s Pace Layering approach can be combined with BPM to produce “next generation applications”, process templates that can complement or be substitutes for applications.
Sustainable Enterprise Change
15 March, 2012 (14:00 - 15:00)
The pace of change is increasing, but when organizations attempt too many changes at once, change becomes a distraction rather than an asset. This presentation identifies how to spot the warning signs of change saturation and build a culture for sustainable enterprise change.
