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| Track A: The Beginner's Survival Guide to BPM | We are in the midst of tough economic times. Your company’s ability to weather the storm depends on your ability to cut costs and improve productivity. Sessions in this track are aimed at business and IT practitioners who are beginning their BPM efforts and who are looking to accelerate time-to-results in order to ensure survival in this challenging economic environment. If you are just beginning BPM and are grappling with the following questions, sessions in this track are targeted to your needs: Is your organization struggling to gain control over its operational inefficiencies and measure its business activities? Are your business opportunities curtailed by rigidity in your business practices and IT systems? Are you thinking about applying BPM disciplines but you don’t know where to start? Armed with frameworks and tactical guidelines, you’ll be better able to build a business case for BPM, set up a BPM, develop a BPM plan and get your first project going. Through best-practice presentations, case studies and client panels, attendees will learn how to successfully lay the foundation required for sustaining BPM efforts. | A |
| Track B: Intermediate BPM for Business Practitioners - Thriving With BPM | Sessions in this track address the question of how BPM can be used as a discipline to help your company grow in challenging economic times. This track focuses on BPM as a discipline and targets attendees from organizations at the intermediate levels of the Gartner BPM Maturity Model (establishing intra-process and inter-process automation and control). These organizations have begun their business process modeling efforts and have also begun to identify process owners, apply business metrics, and move their organization closer to automating and controlling processes with the objective of growing their business. Understand how to exploit the process visibility that BPM brings to your organization. Learn how using key metrics and mining business intelligence sets the stage for business growth. Sessions build on the change management, governance and organizational transformation research presented in “The Beginner's Survival Guide to BPM" track. | B |
| Track C: Intermediate BPM for IT Practitioners - Thriving With BPM | Sessions in this track address the question of how BPM technologies can be used to help your company grow in challenging economic times. This track targets more technically savvy attendees from organizations at the intermediate levels of the Gartner BPM Maturity Model (establishing intra-process and inter-process automation and control). These organizations are process-aware and are actively automating end-to-end selected business processes within their organization. This track delves further into the use of business process analysis (BPA) tools, business process management suites (BPMSs) and business rule management systems (BRMSs). Sessions show how to incorporate BPM into your organization and infrastructure, and probe into how best to apply service-oriented architecture (SOA), business intelligence (BI) and business activity monitoring (BAM) to BPM solutions as well as the organizational change techniques to sustain your BPM effort. Attendees of this technical track will gain an understanding of the major vendors and the technologies that will implement the infrastructure portion of a BPM strategy. | C |
| Track D: Capitalize - Push the Boundaries of Your Business With BPM | Sessions in this track are geared toward business and IT practitioners interested in learning about advanced BPM disciplines and technologies for transforming their business and exploiting key opportunities that their competitors can't address in the current challenging economy. Not for the faint-hearted, this track uses customer case studies and novel analyst research to confront the organizational and technology challenges facing more mature process-centric organizations as they transform their businesses. Here we also take "the long view" and project how companies will use BPM disciplines and technologies in 2015. | D |